Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't be here if I did n't believe you , ’ Graham replied softly . |
| 2 | ‘ Dammit , Robbie , I would n't be here if it was n't . |
| 3 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |
| 4 | well I would n't be absolutely if , if I had to go out then I 'd have to go out . |
| 5 | I told her I would n't be long and went back down the path . |
| 6 | ‘ I will not be here when you return from the invasion of France . |
| 7 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 8 | ‘ I wo n't be long and then I 'll explain everything and you wo n't be cross any more . ’ |
| 9 | hmm , so that post office , I says to Billy I wo n't be long and I 'll do you some rice |
| 10 | However many facts I know about another person I can treat him as pure means , but I can not be perceptually and emotionally aware from his viewpoint without letting his inclinations interact with mine and affect my ends . |
| 11 | Even when there is a grain or more of truth in a criticism , you may not be wholly or , indeed , mainly to blame . |
| 12 | She should n't be here because of Maria Luisa but she trusted Fernando enough not to be too unduly worried about it . |
| 13 | ‘ But you 'll not be there that often , ’ Karr had warned him . |
| 14 | But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter . |
| 15 | Oh well she would n't be there after the bingo then would she ? |
| 16 | She had nearly told him she would n't be there when he came for her . |
| 17 | She had blinds on the window and said she would n't be long when he knocked at the locked door . |
| 18 | I rang up Derek and Jenny came up to tell us and she said er Eileen 'll be coming on the twentieth and she wo n't be here till between eleven and twelve . |
| 19 | I know she wo n't be there but she , I bet she will . |
| 20 | Do n't forget , she wo n't be home until about four o'clock . ’ |
| 21 | You wo n't be long if you do not wish . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She can not be more than twelve years old . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I expect so , ’ he said , ‘ we ca n't be more than twenty-five feet up . |
| 24 | They should not be less than one metre deep and all peat , silt and made-up ground should be avoided . |
| 25 | They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity . |
| 26 | Today , despite assurances given by the Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in Committee , crucial regulations on disability have been botched together with the uprating measures so that they can not be effectively and properly considered by Parliament . |
| 27 | I think we have to say that er I would imagine that plans are well advanced for the nineteen ninety/ninety one/ninety two settlement , er so it may not be immediately that er we will get the benefit of what we said to him . |
| 28 | Thus to love or hate you , it may not be enough that your actions in your own interests make all the difference between success and failure for my highest hopes ; but it may be enough , even if nothing you do has any bearing on my projects , that in being drawn to or shrinking from your viewpoint I feel myself in touch with a personality of which the total pattern attracts or repels my own . |
| 29 | It may not be long before her view is upheld . |
| 30 | It may not be long before the roof falls in . |