Example sentences of "he would not be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , not at all , thank you , ’ said the Prince , and , even when pressed by the professor , he would not be moved . |
| 2 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 3 | He would not be made to read , in fact , or to perform any formal educational exercises ; nor would he be crammed with useless theorizing . |
| 4 | He desperately tried to pull strings with people he knew in Parma so that he would not be called up , but eventually he had to go . |
| 5 | Seeing he would not be served for several hours , the mullah went off back to the caravanserai in which he was staying . |
| 6 | At the end of the prosecution case at Teesside Crown Court yesterday , James Chadwin QC , defending , said he would not be calling any evidence . |
| 7 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Nicholas Winterton ( C. Macclesfield ) announced that he would not be supporting the bill in Monday 's vote because it was ‘ severely flawed ’ . |
| 11 | In a response to my hon. Friend the Member for Newham , North-West ( Mr. Banks ) on Thursday , the Prime Minister made it clear that he would not be supporting the Wild Mammals ( Protection ) Bill , which will come before the House on Friday , but did not clarify whether he is in favour of a ban on fox hunting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Until he had undergone this religious initiation and probation he would not be regarded as a mature member of the Buddhist community . |
| 14 | He would not be prepared when she asked him why he had sent two men to beat up a pathetic hotel clerk and frighten a vulnerable old woman . |
| 15 | Mr Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade , admitted the Government had ‘ got it wrong ’ , but said he would not be resigning . |
| 16 | The boys queued in sets of five outside the headmaster 's room , each clutching his signed slip and praying he would not be singled out for special treatment . |
| 17 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 18 | At the height of the party , when he thought he would not be missed , Seb slipped away to return to Fern Cottage . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Gerry Burton 's announcement in April last year that he would not be seeking re-election as Kidson Impey 's national senior partner caused more than a few raised eyebrows . |
| 21 | Last week Dr Feeney , who has just completed a lecture tour of the States , let it be known he would not be seeking the SDLP nomination to contest the Oldpark ward in North Belfast . |
| 22 | Two days after insisting he would not be tempted out of international retirement , Kriss Akabusi was controversially named for the 400m hurdles , ahead of the new British champion Gary Cadogan . |
| 23 | ‘ I have it on good authority that when Satan left , Christ did it but then changed them back to show he would not be tempted to eat . |
| 24 | If thrown from his horse he would not be given the opportunity to remount . |
| 25 | From this distance Bourke says he was unable to contact Blake by radio and therefore he would drive to Old Oak Common Lane , park his car and then walk across Old Oak Common with his radio to a point dose to the north side of the prison from where he could re-establish contact , lying down in the grass so that he would not be seen . |
| 26 | He would not be seen to give way easily . |
| 27 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 28 | But wealthy Mr Meinertzhagen — a Lloyds ‘ name ’ — said he would not be taking civil action against the bar . |
| 29 | Yesterday Silas had assured her he would not be taking her to town — yet here she was , smartly dressed and ready to accompany them . |
| 30 | The centre-right Democratic Party ( DIKO ) of former President Spyros Kyprianou slipped to 19.5 per cent , winning 11 seats , and Kyprianou announced that he would not be taking up his parliamentary seat . |