Example sentences of "[pron] would not be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I was n't getting all the media attention I would n't be pining for it , ’ a modest Tim begins . |
| 2 | ‘ If I was n't getting all the media attention I would n't be pining for it , ’ a modest Tim begins . |
| 3 | If it had n't been for his diligent research and dogged answer seeking , I would n't be leaving for America two hours from now in the hope of a cure . |
| 4 | I would n't be looking for him to approach me . ’ |
| 5 | The next year , 1965 , he had his choice of three F1 teams competing for his services and chose BRM : as he has said , he wanted to be in a team ‘ where they would n't rush me , a team where I would n't be battling for my place every time I took the grid , a team where I could learn from a man like Graham Hill ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ If he was n't , I would n't be working for him . |
| 7 | She would bolt the back door and lock the front door after her as she left and she would n't be gone for long . |
| 8 | She shrugged , knowing the name would do him no good , since she would n't be born for another half a millennium . |
| 9 | Just before seven she left Jed to pick out some toys and books to be taking with him — and it 's got to be a portable amount , she warned and went to check that she would n't be needed for a while . |
| 10 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 11 | There was no noise , no radio , no light , but he could not imagine she would not be waiting for him . |
| 12 | I mean — high , … if … you did n't know who was singin' , you would n't be lookin' for him you would be lookin' for her . ’ |
| 13 | I mean let's be honest if we all turned out that 's five and if the rest of the Executive Committee turned out that would virtually take it up to ten we would n't be looking for many more after that |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't have any real scruples about our supposed affair or we would n't be working for you , so I can only assume that you 're making this personal attack for the sheer hell of it , because you once got a kick out of disapproving of me — despising me — and you 're trying to recapture the thrill of it all . ’ |
| 15 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 16 | Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged . |
| 17 | To begin with , however , the moment of opportunity that was presented in Vietnam by France 's defeat in 1940 was taken by the Japanese ; and although Ho might conceivably and eventually have been right in his optimistic assertion that ‘ if the entire people were united and single minded they would certainly be able to smash the picked French and Japanese armies ’ , the vicissitudes of war and politics would ensure that , for a while at least , they would not be required for such a formidable task . |
| 18 | And in some organizations they would not be working for us any more |
| 19 | If they 'd done so , if they 'd insisted that local authorities did provide the sites they are supposed to provide I believe there would now be sufficient pitches for all travellers and that they would n't be used for illegal parking erm at the level that there is at the moment . |
| 20 | Seeing he would not be served for several hours , the mullah went off back to the caravanserai in which he was staying . |
| 21 | He told the judge that he would not be instructed for the retrial . |
| 22 | In the case of Turner , a convicted defendant initiated a prosecution against his accomplice , who had obtained a prior undertaking from the Director that he would not be prosecuted for his part in the offence . |
| 23 | He would not be moving for much longer . |
| 24 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 25 | On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 . |
| 26 | President Francesco Cossiga , 63 , who had been elected in July 1985 , had made it clear that he would not be standing for re-election . |
| 27 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 28 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 29 | His only regular commitment was a fortnightly diary , so he would n't be missed for another week or two . |
| 30 | Sure , he would n't be killed for anything he had on him , the poor soul . |