Example sentences of "[conj] i would not be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | I I think there is certainly capacity erm for Skelton to expand , or I would n't be sitting here supporting erm the people I represent . |
| 3 | Somehow this is an awareness he 's built into me or I would n't be able to spot it where nobody else can . |
| 4 | ‘ Now my job 's up north , or I would n't be on this train now . |
| 5 | Or I would n't be able to be on the street , |
| 6 | And , to me , of course , you are — or I would n't be here to begin with — Jewish . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't recall any mention of them , but I suppose I must have or I would n't be able to see anything , would I ? |
| 8 | Well , obviously , or I would n't be a paediatrician , but I 'd be quite happy to have dozens . ’ |
| 9 | you know that awful viral thing that 's going around and I meant to be pass the infectious now , or I would n't be here with you . |
| 10 | I really think , although I would not be prepared to put it to the test , that you could go out in the streets of London in your nightdress and nobody would notice . |
| 11 | The umpires ' statement , the match referee 's ruling , even the allegedly mistreated ball itself — although I would n't be surprised to hear it 's disappeared in a burglary ! |
| 12 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 13 | I drained my mess-tin , got to my feet and went out across the cobbled farmyard , under the arch , and out along the road leading to Brigade H.Q hoping that I would not be requiring the special services offered by the medics . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew that I would not be allowed to box but I proved a point by showing up , ’ he said . |
| 15 | My other main concern was that I really felt that I would not be able to do my job any more once I went back . |
| 16 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 17 | I certainly agree that I would not be wholly confident of the conclusion about tunnelling if I did not know that rigorous calculations with the Schrödinger equation lead to the same conclusion . |
| 18 | If , on the basis of this , I were to proceed to make very careful observations of the weights of a wide variety of human earlobes , recording and categorizing the many observations , I think it is clear that I would not be making any significant contribution to science . |
| 19 | Before the examination , one of the commissioners told me that I would not be one of the winners because the positions had already been assigned to others who were , for the most part , assistants to the various commission members . |
| 20 | Back at home I did n't mention that I had barely escaped being branded as a melon thief ; but now , having ridden a bicycle , I realized that I would not be happy until I possessed one of my own . |
| 21 | Mr. Bill Walker : I have made it clear that I would not be unhappy if Stagecoach ended up with the Strathtay area , but that I would prefer Strathtay bus company . |
| 22 | ‘ If I knew that I would not be here , ’ she said , in the most lucid tone Cleo had yet heard her utter . |
| 23 | Les Stewart , Senior Manager at Oban , who has responsibility for Scarinish , had perceptively anticipated that I would not be over-extended during my stay on the island . |
| 24 | ‘ I had hoped to be gone so that I would not be obliged to face her . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You could not guarantee that I would n't be blown up . |
| 26 | I told her that I would n't be leaving without her ladyship 's mourning clothes . |
| 27 | I vowed there and then that I would n't be like that again . ’ |
| 28 | Football meant standing on a muddy pitch hoping the ball would n't come anywhere near me , so that I would n't be forced to tackle some vicious little boy who really cared who won the game . |
| 29 | I was terrified that I would n't be accepted . |
| 30 | She says : ‘ I felt immense relief when I found out I was pregnant , mainly because I 'd had this secret panic that I would n't be able to conceive . ’ |