Example sentences of "would [not/n't] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so many would not come back from the war . |
| 2 | He might read for a while but he would not come downstairs , would not hear anything if she were quiet . |
| 3 | Further clashes were averted after Mike Snell , the district council engineer , gave an assurance that the trees would not come down until the issue was resolved in court . |
| 4 | Her mother would not come into the arena with her , strip naked for combat , risk her life and her neutrality for Maggie , and Maggie recognised that tonight with a new sadness . |
| 5 | Michael , their younger brother , had promised to come from London at Easter but Luke , the eldest , still would not come . |
| 6 | ‘ Sunday , August 10 , 1913 : I wish this awful man would not come into our house ’ is a fairly typical entry , transcribed from Albert 's pocket diary . |
| 7 | It would not come despite chances galore , especially for Reading and Trevor Senior — although in a heart-stopping moment for the home side Neil Clemmence headed against the bar with 10 seconds of normal time left — and the tie will resume at Welling tomorrow . |
| 8 | Eventually , after one false start , when Edward assumed ( wrongly ) that Helen would not come , they set off in late November '95 for a short walk to Wimbledon , followed four days later by a trip to Croydon . |
| 9 | She was very nervous at first and would not come out from behind the piano . |
| 10 | But Hank would not come . |
| 11 | Cutting behind Mr Zamoyski 's shop , he prayed that the cobbler would not come out and greet him . |
| 12 | She had hoped even more confidently that certain things would not come her way . |
| 13 | But perhaps it would not come , after all , perhaps they would take one look at Mrs Thorne and refuse her admittance into a ward of lunatic old ladies . |
| 14 | She would not come , she would not . ’ |
| 15 | Resentment gathered in her in a hard knot but still the tears would not come . |
| 16 | But she knew he would not come to help her . |
| 17 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |
| 18 | They said local people would not like to see such a waste of money ( even though it would not come from local diocesan funds , whereas the cost of demolition would ) . |
| 19 | The birdies just would not come , though . |
| 20 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 21 | Half of them live at Stantonbury , 437 between two and three miles distant , the remainder three to six miles away , mostly on farms and in villages with relatives or connections , and they would not come to live at Wolverton even if cottages were provided for them . |
| 22 | DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss . |
| 23 | She went on to tell Tamar that she and Elizabeth would not come up to Kirkbymoorside to stand the market in the future . |
| 24 | Not , he admits , that the pilot would be able literally to see anything but ‘ the longing in our hearts — that he would not come to harm — would reach up to him and his eyes would be opened . ’ |
| 25 | He did not drink alcohol ; it was the cocktail hour , dinner would not come yet , so he gazed out of the window . |
| 26 | The hatch trap-door into the caisson would not come open and fire was coming from all sides , including the north where three ships were moored beyond the caisson on the Penhouet Basin 's south quay . |
| 27 | He had to buy off some of Wednesday night 's rebels by promising them that the Maastricht Treaty would not come before the Commons again until after Denmark held another referendum in May . |
| 28 | She wanted to thank him for his kindness , to tell him how grateful she was that he had offered to help but the words would not come . |
| 29 | Although CDC would not come clean with its actual choice of another RISC , it ruled out Sparc , said DEC 's Alpha was just vapourware and admitted it had been positively influenced by HP 's technology commitment . |
| 30 | The draft directive is likely to be adopted by Council in the autumn and would not come into force before 1993 . |