Example sentences of "he would [not/n't] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing he would not be served for several hours , the mullah went off back to the caravanserai in which he was staying . |
| 2 | Fletcher said he had spoken to Graham Gooch during the past week but that Gooch was still insistent that he would not be rushed into a decision about the England captaincy . |
| 3 | He told students at Edinburgh University that no changes were planned but allowed himself a get-out clause by stressing that he would not be tied to any position until the Government 's conclusions on the industry had been agreed . |
| 4 | He did not actually suggest communication between continents with the aid of geostationary satellites , but if he was taken now to a satellite ground-station he would not be numbed with astonishment . |
| 5 | Until he had undergone this religious initiation and probation he would not be regarded as a mature member of the Buddhist community . |
| 6 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 7 | He told the judge that he would not be instructed for the retrial . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He would not be moving for much longer . |
| 10 | By ensuring rejection in this way he was also ensuring that he would not be enslaved by anyone else 's methods of work . |
| 11 | He would not be fooled like the man in the film who went cheerfully off to work , leaving his brave young wife to die all alone in their pretty country cottage . |
| 12 | That night , Edward took Erica to dinner at the Savoy Grill in the Strand and explained that he would not be leaving after all . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He would not be going to the funeral either . |
| 15 | ‘ If he really had a divine mission , ran the objection , he would not be surrounded by this rag-tag band , but by the best and the brightest . … |
| 16 | And he would not be incriminated by a paper ; but North was . |
| 17 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 18 | Although the defendant programmer would not be allowed simply to copy the programs in question , he would not be required to " wipe clean the slate of his memory " because to do so would unduly restrict his use of his own training , skill and experience . |
| 19 | He had made his best friend aboard promise that he would not be buried at sea — something he had a great fear of — but on land . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | President Francesco Cossiga , 63 , who had been elected in July 1985 , had made it clear that he would not be standing for re-election . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had decided he would not be sitting in the front any longer . |
| 25 | But he would not be drawn about the prospect of being reunited with his estranged wife Becky or his affection for former girlfriend Arabella Tait . |
| 26 | Though he would not be drawn on the details , Smith 's presentation was sprinkled liberally with references to a Windows bulletin-board application that will appear next year . |
| 27 | While he would not be drawn on exactly how the higher speed has been achieved , he did say that the system enables users to retain their existing equipment . |
| 28 | James I was declared by his contemporaries to have died of it , and his victim Sir Walter Ralegh , awaiting execution in the Tower , prayed that he would not be seized by a fit of ague on the scaffold , lest his enemies should proclaim that he had met his death shivering with fear . |
| 29 | On Sept. 22 he resurfaced in the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este , declaring that he would not be returning to France to face charges because he had reason to fear an assassination attempt . |
| 30 | But he would not be dissuaded from his task . |