Example sentences of "would n't [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It would take a million years to tell you all the things I have done , and some of the things I would n't tell even you , ’ she said mischievously , ‘ but it 's great to be home .
3 I went back to the van and the bloody thing would n't start so I waited there till morning when I could catch a bus and … and , well , just get out . ’
4 ‘ The other pistol owner would n't lend out his gun , so four of us used mine .
5 The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange .
6 No I do n't , but nevertheless nobody knew only people like us and the neighbours , how that kid was every day when her mother to the T S B and her mother according to Julia had her because it was the done thing her mother , her own mother would n't have her , Kerry to look after her and I know that for a fact because one time when Ross was ill , Julia said I ca n't have her and she said oh god I suppose I 've got to go and beg my mother to have her now she did , but the woman said to Julia , I mean she would n't give up her job , they had a four bedroomed house , two bloody great cars , eleven cats
7 he was , he would n't give up his Saturday work you see .
8 ‘ I would n't kick out anyone who did n't perform , but when they came back I would make sure I put them in a safe place , ’ he says .
9 But she would n't explain why she 's using her vote against the government in tonight 's debate on a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty .
10 Although he should be fit I would n't rule out him of missing this game . ’
11 Well I would n't go down it .
12 I wou I would n't hold out my hand I was fourteen .
13 it would n't set so I hit it and you know buttons ?
14 ‘ But I would n't write off our chances of winning this match just yet . ’
15 Their sort would n't let on they even knew prostitutes existed .
16 And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step .
17 I promised myself I would n't come near you again unless you wanted me to , that the ball would always be in your court , and that if you chose to kick me out of your life for good , then I 'd respect that wish , even if it 'd half kill me to do so .
18 They would n't come in they would n't come into the porch even .
19 When I was sure he would n't come in I got up and danced about a bit , and read the art books and drank water .
20 Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night .
21 Image ‘ I could n't believe it when they said Frigoscandia would n't take on anybody with tattoos , ’ said Wayne .
22 And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box .
23 I would n't put just anybody in it , but my mother , Aunt Emily 's niece , her only surviving direct relation except for me — ’
24 He would n't understand why his deputy was upset .
25 Folly followed her guide , praying that the girl would n't ask why she wanted to see Luke Hunter , and trying to think up a good excuse in case she did .
26 So you would n't know when it 's on or when it 's off .
27 ‘ But we would n't know where we were going ! ’ said Grimma .
28 And then the daft things they were up to : ordering booksellers to destroy their maps , and ordinary folk an' all , as if the Germans when they landed would n't know where they were going .
29 Oh she says , you would n't know where it was , she said , it 's only a little place she said , Skipton .
30 ‘ He would n't know where you put her .
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