Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] would [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are people who say they would n't be seen dead on of these things , but after one ride they 're queuing up . |
| 2 | More than half say they would n't be put off a woman if they knew she carried condoms ; only 17% would regard it as a turn-off . |
| 3 | The boys queued in sets of five outside the headmaster 's room , each clutching his signed slip and praying he would not be singled out for special treatment . |
| 4 | ‘ I got Nell to tell his father that if Sheridan came to breakfast we would n't be putting on our scene , and it did the trick . |
| 5 | ‘ This place we 're going to , it 's in Mariánské Láznë ? ’ she thought she should enquire , since it seemed they would not be walking to this lunchtime venue . |
| 6 | He had decided he would not be sitting in the front any longer . |
| 7 | I silently vowed I would not be returning to Coldstream . |
| 8 | I rode Drifter back with the rest of the string and went into breakfast , half expecting to be told I would n't be allowed to ride Fringe . |
| 9 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 10 | Journalists who reported to Gaza Barracks at 7.15am as instructed were told they would not be allowed to witness the exercise , which involved 24 Airmobile Brigade , North Yorkshire Police , fire and ambulance services , the county emergency planning department and ‘ casualties ’ from Longlands College , Middlesbrough . |
| 11 | The trial was adjourned until tomorrow and the jury were told they would not be needed until Thursday . |
| 12 | On the day on which 6,500 redundancy notices were delivered to army personnel , Grampian Enterprise confirmed it would not be renewing the grant when the 18-month contract runs out in March . |
| 13 | No-one would judge an overseas subsidiary purely on its cash flow , because if it was doing well and growing it would n't be sending much money home , whereas if it was in decline and its working capital requirement was decreasing , it would become cash positive . |
| 14 | The trial was adjourned until tomorrow and the jury was told it would not be needed until Thursday . |
| 15 | She guessed he would n't be used to much of that from her sex . |
| 16 | One thing that I did tell her was that if I ever got arrested she would not be involved . |
| 17 | Erm you would n't have you would n't be releasing Michelle back and losing losing her to testing . |
| 18 | Kabir came to the market to sell from his loom when the woman grasped his hand , blaming him for being faithless , and followed him to his house , saying she would not be forsaken . |
| 19 | On the eve of the IAEA visit Argentina announced that it was cancelling an US$18 million deal to supply nuclear equipment to Iran , because of a lack of safeguards to ensure it would not be used to make nuclear weapons . |
| 20 | He 'd known he would n't be putting on the act as soon as the boy had handed him the carrier . |
| 21 | Last week Dr Feeney , who has just completed a lecture tour of the States , let it be known he would not be seeking the SDLP nomination to contest the Oldpark ward in North Belfast . |
| 22 | Was Puddephat exceptionally tidy , or had he known he would not be coming back to these rooms after his trip to Paris ? |
| 23 | It meant I would n't be perceived as another girl singer — and I could set the look and feel and energy of what I was about . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If I knew I would n't be asking you , and if I did n't know her inside out I would have said she was worried about something . ’ |
| 25 | She was n't even sure just why he was there — they 'd left Marianne in the hotel lounge downstairs with some of the other actors , but that did n't mean she would n't be joining him in his room later . |
| 26 | Roza Niedzwiedz would gladly have come with me but , as an alien , she feared she would not be granted re-entry into Britain . |
| 27 | I knew you would n't be expecting me , but I really — I needed to see you , too , ’ he confessed , ‘ just to be sure I was still alive . ’ |
| 28 | I said , ‘ They 'd surrender many of them , if they knew they would n't be shot or mistreated . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They thought they would not be caught . |
| 30 | Two days after insisting he would not be tempted out of international retirement , Kriss Akabusi was controversially named for the 400m hurdles , ahead of the new British champion Gary Cadogan . |