Example sentences of "would [not/n't] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would not give another year of my life to a new version , he wrote . |
| 2 | Five months ago it was tens of thousands , quickly to become millions , of Chinese invoking his name as a symbol of the political reforms which their own rulers would not give them . |
| 3 | And even then her flesh would not give up its alien growth without a struggle . |
| 4 | A Ferranti spokesman would not give details of the individuals or organisations against which legal action may be taken but said : ‘ We would hope in the not too distant future to take the necessary legal action to put everything right . ’ |
| 5 | Clearly upset , the 51-year-old entrepreneur said that his group would not give up the fight . |
| 6 | The plastic floats at the top of the net could easily be detected by sonar , but in drift-nets , they are on the surface , where , even if detected , they would not give the dolphin any cause for alarm . |
| 7 | God would not give us ideas and perceptions which inevitably lead us to suppose a world , unless there actually was one . |
| 8 | He would not give me his address in Barcelona — it would be too dangerous for us to meet again . |
| 9 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
| 10 | Yet she would not give it up . |
| 11 | But she was feeling guilty : she had not given and she would not give Miss Danziger Fru Gertlinger 's note . |
| 12 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 13 | But when BT introduced its computer service , it also brought in a charge of 43p per inquiry and , as a matter of policy , would not give addresses . |
| 14 | But , of course , he would not give her time . |
| 15 | And then , raging at himself for his mistake , he would not give the ship up . |
| 16 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 17 | They adopted the time-honoured device of spending the night together at an hotel , but Herbert , nervous that something might go wrong , overtipped the chambermaid , who then through misplaced gratitude would not give the required evidence against him . |
| 18 | But she would not give in . |
| 19 | Figuratively speaking , who would not give their right arm to find such a love ? |
| 20 | The navy says an accident would not give anybody a dose higher than the four millirems per year limit set for drinking water in the US . |
| 21 | Although on friendly terms with Matthew Boulton before going to Birmingham , he would not give him the details of a cannon ‘ that the Americans have constructed on a new principle ’ . |
| 22 | One wife , who has now returned part-time to her own career while she cares for their two small children , accepted before marrying that her high-powered executive husband would not give any help in the house . |
| 23 | At one point , to suppress attacks , a large handkerchief was thrown over the stuffed cuckoo , but the enraged birds ( in this case , nightingales ) would not give up and assaulted the handkerchief instead . |
| 24 | The Nazis must have known that the Poles would not release Danzig without a struggle — indeed , they had asked for something they knew the Poles would not give . |
| 25 | Pretty conclusive evidence you might think , but the Sharmas would not give up . |
| 26 | A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect . |
| 27 | I have a Roland U220 which would give me the sounds I want although I know it would not give me the great note-sequence loops which McLaughlin uses so beautifully . |
| 28 | ‘ the reasons for it ’ — a statement as to why the treatment prescribed would not give a true and fair view ; |
| 29 | The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income . |
| 30 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |