Example sentences of "would not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lee pressed against the door it would not open so that she panicked , standing in the enveloping steam . |
| 2 | At the same time Wilson was bluntly told that the United States would not make good any losses that the British economy might suffer . |
| 3 | The evidence indicated that , given the nature of continuous speech , a robust system would not make too early a decision , but would allow higher levels to inform the process of identification . |
| 4 | Dr Kevin Hawkins , the head of WH Smith 's corporate public relations , said the agreement would not stop either taking a job with a rival chain . |
| 5 | The tide would not stop there . |
| 6 | If this factor did not influence people , then the average repayment period chosen by people once they had been shown both APR and total cost as well as instalment amount would not vary very much between the different sets of respondents ( that is , those shown just the instalment amounts first , those shown APR too , and those shown total credit cost too ) . |
| 7 | She would not feel so defenceless . |
| 8 | If there were electric light , perhaps she would not feel so agitated , so fevered , so at risk . |
| 9 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 10 | But advocates of PR said afterwards that the issue would not go away : Labour has yet to decide its preferred method of electing its proposed regional assemblies and its replacement for the House of Lords . |
| 11 | My sadness over and fear for Jordi would not go away . |
| 12 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 13 | The worst problem was to try to explain quarantine regulations to the black-clothed mothers who would not go away from the main gates and wailed bitterly ‘ Oh ! mio bambino ! mio bambino ! ’ till Mr Rideout had to have Dr Hill 's attendance lest he too became a patient . |
| 14 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said again , while the thought came to her , unbidden , horrifying and wicked , yet it would not go away : If the result of this amnio-whatever test is adverse , if there is something wrong with the foetus , then I could have an abortion with a clear conscience . |
| 15 | Tommy Allen was married now and it was not unnatural that he should have a conversation with Carrie , but the nagging feeling would not go away . |
| 16 | I know the truth — Heavenly Father sent me a message , last night , like little Samuel only not just a voice , a vision , a terrible , terrible dream that would not go away … |
| 17 | But the housing problems of the big cities would not go away . |
| 18 | Anne had been indignant but secretly glad that he would not go away until she understood how he really felt about her . |
| 19 | ‘ What 'll we do ? ’ asked Tim after a short silence ; even he had to admit that a lady would not go away leaving behind all her credit cards and a wad of paper money . |
| 20 | It was the sort of night on which questions would not go away . |
| 21 | The image of suddenly being called in to take over from George Birkitt and astounding the critics with his unsung brilliance was one that would not go away , however hard he tried to suppress it . |
| 22 | But , even then , the nagging thought in his mind would not go away . |
| 23 | He tried to forget it : in his hotel , at the dinner table , over the bar , but it would not go away . |
| 24 | It lay heavy in the air and would not go away . |
| 25 | Yussuf 's ex-wife had come to the police station and would not go away . |
| 26 | It was a puzzle that just would not go away . |
| 27 | Tony Coleman , who led the opposition previously , said the dissenting voices would not go away . |
| 28 | Phoning the next day quoting my reference number to say the flight would not go ahead due to a change of circumstances , a long delay ensued . |
| 29 | He went into hospital the day before and was only told on the day of the operation it would not go ahead . |
| 30 | At the conclusion of the talks , Cheney announced that the second phase of the US troop withdrawal plan to 1995 , involving 6,000 troops , would not go ahead in view of " the most serious threat " posed by North Korea . |