Example sentences of "would n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never thought for a moment he would n't pull through , ’ said Alison . |
| 2 | ‘ I never thought for a moment he would n't pull through , ’ said Alison . |
| 3 | However , convincing myself the pebbles I was climbing on would n't pull out did take a little time . |
| 4 | James Bond in real life might pull the women but he would n't pull many spies . ’ |
| 5 | He took a stick and poked the leaves till they glowed , orange flames flickered around the strap and the helmet began to shrivel , slowly becoming unrecognisable , so that Barnes would n't pull it out later and bring it back to the house . |
| 6 | If you did n't do that they would n't do it for you , they would n't pull them for you , would n't do anything . |
| 7 | Would n't pull them ? |
| 8 | Then there came it think it was the gearbox or something went on the gar , you know , because I tow a caravan , and the car just would n't pull the caravan , and it was going to cost over a thousand pounds and that like . |
| 9 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
| 10 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 11 | They said it would n't matter if he were gay . |
| 12 | I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising . |
| 13 | But you know that would n't matter to me ; if I had any ideas about Pete , he could be the stoker on that tramp . |
| 14 | They could send their snoopers round and it would n't matter . |
| 15 | It would n't matter now what she , Dinah , did ; Robert Asshe would be hoping for an heir from the new wife , the young girl who could n't act . |
| 16 | Because they have shallow keels , a minimum draught and no ballast they are almost useless performers to windward but that would n't matter in this case . |
| 17 | alright if it does n't rain actually so it would n't matter if they did n't have treads on er treads on the tyres if it 's dry it does n't really matter you just go round slicks and |
| 18 | And then he suddenly said , in a more natural tone , in an everyday tone that she rarely heard from him these days , ‘ And anyway , I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 19 | Patiently , he repeated , as though perhaps she had not heard : ‘ I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 20 | If I were completely , it would n't matter . " |
| 21 | To Branson , arguments had never been a symptom of animosity ; rather , he and Powell had always argued ‘ like a married couple , knowing you could shout at each other and it would n't matter ’ . |
| 22 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 23 | The Indian kids would n't matter , but the Yuppie type might get half an hour in the back of a police car checking the pavements and the pub car parks for some sign of his attacker . |
| 24 | ‘ It would n't matter if we welded steel sheets across the landings , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Some people would say — you 're only a drop , your word-breaking is only a drop , it would n't matter . |
| 26 | If we all did our jobs as well as that perhaps it would n't matter about it being a theocracy . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter . |
| 28 | Er , it would n't matter to the leather trade as such or to any of the countries , er if there was no saddling and harness trade , and that goes for countries like erm , Britain and France and Germany and United States and so on . |
| 29 | No I was saying if I was saying if I was going to spend that on raffle tickets , it would n't matter if I was getting |
| 30 | It would n't matter , though , one way or the other , later during the fight in the quarry with Davide . |