Example sentences of "would n't [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening night at the Macintyre gallery brought a full house and the first buyer , the Duchess of York , could n't ; would n't be parted from her favourite picture . |
| 2 | If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches . |
| 3 | ‘ Now , ’ pointing the gun towards her attacker and praying inwardly she would n't be called upon to use it since she had n't the faintest idea how firearms worked , she glanced over towards Adam and the other man still engaged in a tussle on the floor , ‘ I suggest we call a halt to all this nonsense . ’ |
| 4 | She shrugged , knowing the name would do him no good , since she would n't be born for another half a millennium . |
| 5 | Pardy had almost admitted that he knew that — but had stopped just short and would n't be fooled into such a damning admission now . |
| 6 | But you know I still think that I 'm drawn towards that sort of teaching , performing that kind of role erm and that would n't be fulfilled by librarianship at all . |
| 7 | So it , as I said to you in my opening remarks , here 's a clear example of us having to move in a direction that we would n't be recommending to you in terms of policy , but we 're driven by the financial considerations . |
| 8 | You 're making an assumption that damage would be caused erm by the development of certain sites , and that it would n't be caused by the development of other sites . |
| 9 | He said a British officer would n't be treated like that in Germany . |
| 10 | And apparently Jason Horfitz then said he would n't be passing on the information he had to anybody else as he did n't want to end up in a ditch . ’ |
| 11 | As you 'll see from the diagram , in the year of opening in nineteen ninety nine , on the central section of the l outer northern relief road there are eight thousand vehicles a day using that that road , that 's eight thousand vehicles a day that wo n't be would n't be passing through Knaresborough and through Harrogate . |
| 12 | That restriction suddenly would n't be imposed in the next two or three years , it would be a gradual reduction through to the year two thousand and six . |
| 13 | In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood . |
| 14 | and see if there 's any , anything in that , cos you would n't be looking at doing every single village hall |
| 15 | I would n't be looking for him to approach me . ’ |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By fifty percent , but I certainly would n't be I certainly would n't be referring to them as a peripheral area . |
| 19 | She is not keen on hardbacks : ‘ If it was n't for the literary editors we would n't be publishing in hardback any more — some books we would , but not a lot . ’ |
| 20 | Sure , he would n't be killed for anything he had on him , the poor soul . |
| 21 | They used to be fed in the pen up there and they would n't be killed till Mondays . |
| 22 | I did n't care if it was raw , if the pangs of birth were ugly ; I wanted to be somewhere I would n't be defined by what I 'd been , where I could fashion a new notion of myself and impose it on others as the truth . |
| 23 | The exception to that of course is York but York would n't be affected by this open countryside policy er at all . |
| 24 | He knew that he was going to have to give himself one night 's sleep at least , one night when he would n't be bent into the back of a freezing car or upright on a chair . |
| 25 | I told her that I would n't be leaving without her ladyship 's mourning clothes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive . |
| 28 | And with this interjection Aggie now beat her closed fist against the end of the settle as she added angrily , ‘ If she had acted like the friend that she was supposed to be to the mother I would n't be faced with this lot tonight . ’ |
| 29 | It would n't be given as a cos X two X , it would be given two X cos X. |
| 30 | Maxim doubted Blagg had bothered to rip open the suitcase linings ; he just would n't be thinking in those terms . |