Example sentences of "[adv] he would [not/n't] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon he would n't be wanting a live-in housekeeper . |
| 2 | I says , well , I says , I was reading a book and an old wifey that lived up at and she was about ninety six , and this chap that was interviewing her , well he would n't be interviewing her but he said she sat by the fire and she hostied and clochered until she nearly spewed . |
| 3 | Surely he would n't be joking if something was seriously wrong … and he had called her ‘ Lucky ’ … |
| 4 | It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands . |
| 5 | I used it this morning on one of Slash Harry 's victims and the edge is rather blunted " — his mania for self-advertisement and his intolerable bucolic laugh , and was grateful that at least he would n't be interrogating that redoubtable old phoney . |
| 6 | Maybe he would n't be bringing the certificate today , but then again in ten minutes ' time Sampson could be on his way down to the police station with an open envelope . |
| 7 | He knew that he was going to have to give himself one night 's sleep at least , one night when he would n't be bent into the back of a freezing car or upright on a chair . |