Example sentences of "[pers pn] would not be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I soon learned to differentiate between the occasions on which I would not be missed , like chapel , and those on which my absence would be obvious , like team games where positions were allotted in advance . |
| 2 | I would not be mistaken over this , ’ replied Merymose shortly . |
| 3 | He said I would I would not be accepted . |
| 4 | I would not be threatened by McIllvanney . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew that I would not be allowed to box but I proved a point by showing up , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I would not be left out ! |
| 8 | Roza Niedzwiedz would gladly have come with me but , as an alien , she feared she would not be granted re-entry into Britain . |
| 9 | I wonder if ‘ name and address supplied ’ would volunteer to be chased five miles by an angry mob being happy in the knowledge that when caught he or she would not be beaten up but dispatched humanely ? |
| 10 | She lived in Half Moon Crescent ( he had checked the number and the street before he 'd started out on his trek , so that even if Slater had lost or forgotten her number , she would not be lost to him ) . |
| 11 | Though she was being forced to work for Vass , at least she could be thankful that she would not be called upon to endure the misery of working alongside him ! |
| 12 | One thing that I did tell her was that if I ever got arrested she would not be involved . |
| 13 | But no , she told them , she would not be pigeon-holed . |
| 14 | She would not be destroyed . |
| 15 | Kabir came to the market to sell from his loom when the woman grasped his hand , blaming him for being faithless , and followed him to his house , saying she would not be forsaken . |
| 16 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 17 | But she would not be denied , not now . |
| 18 | She would not be denied her wishes . |
| 19 | She would not be tyrannised . |
| 20 | She suspected that the good doctor might be laying it on a little thick , but she would not be put off , and said in her stiffest voice , ‘ Yes , I understand all that , and I am prepared to work hard , ’ and she added for good measure , ‘ You need not worry about followers . |
| 21 | But she would not be put down ; she would not . |
| 22 | Under hypnosis Sylvia remembered being adamant in her refusal to join in a game of hide and seek , which would have involved her in hiding in isolated , cramped and possibly dark surroundings so that she would not be found . |
| 23 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 24 | She would not be taken in , of course ; but it might be difficult to refuse politely . |
| 25 | The first time she discovered the awful mess he had deliberately left in the kitchen , Beth was determined she would not be used as a skivvy . |
| 26 | She would not be forced to invent further spurious reasons for contacting the victim 's widow . |
| 27 | She would not be squeezed in . |
| 28 | ‘ If she was pregnant , ’ Corbett cryptically replied , ‘ she would not be allowed to leave . ’ |
| 29 | He was a superbly male animal , he was used to beguiling women with his dark sorcery , but she would not be counted among them . |
| 30 | Her one , clear thought was that , whatever he said , she would not be convinced by him . |