Example sentences of "he would [not/n't] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd not be believed , and would just hurt the lad more . |
| 2 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 3 | He was never to say hello to you , and he once said that he would not be interested in his child ‘ until he can go out shooting with me ’ . |
| 4 | He would not be in at all if she could stand it . |
| 5 | He felt that if he waltzed his dancers round and round as in a ballroom he would not be interpreting Chopin 's idealised romantic waltzes for a solo pianist . |
| 6 | One tabloid , threatened since with a writ , went as far as to say that he would not be able to find such a sum . |
| 7 | ‘ He wanted to develop his business on a private basis , and if he came into the glare of publicity as owner of Manchester United he would not be able to do that , ’ one of the negotiators said . |
| 8 | ‘ He wanted to swop her for a guarantee that he would not be arrested ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No , not at all , thank you , ’ said the Prince , and , even when pressed by the professor , he would not be moved . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Nicholas Winterton ( C. Macclesfield ) announced that he would not be supporting the bill in Monday 's vote because it was ‘ severely flawed ’ . |
| 12 | Indeed , even before the argument over the date of Mr Baker 's trip to Baghdad , the Americans said that he would not be negotiating , only warning Mr Hussein of the need to submit . |
| 13 | After the series in Australia , Mike Brearley announced that he would not be able to tour in 1980–1 as he wanted to continue his studies in psychoanalysis , and the England selectors decided to appoint a new captain for the start of the 1980 rubber . |
| 14 | They respected him , too , of course , as one of the greatest players since the war , and knew that , as a top-flight batsman and a bowler who could be both slow and fast-medium , he would not be asking them to do things he had not already achieved himself . |
| 15 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 16 | Doyle would start to hit him and he would not be able to stop . |
| 17 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had a busy day ahead of him , and although he did not yet know it , he would not be able to get back to bed until nearly twenty-four hours later . |
| 21 | He knew he would not be caught . |
| 22 | Usually he called my work ‘ promising ’ or ‘ almost too original ’ or ‘ full of potential ’ or ‘ a bit ahead of the market ’ or any one of those predictable , embarrassed and therefore embarrassing phrases which are meant to soften the fact that be thought he would not be able to place it anywhere ‘ for the moment ’ . |
| 23 | And he would not be incriminated by a paper ; but North was . |
| 24 | The national Church does not entirely escape responsibility for this situation ; within living memory the bishop of one major see let it be known that he would not be available to officiate at services on Good Friday since he had to start the boat race at his old school . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | There was no reason to believe he would not be as enthusiastic as before about my proposed motoring trip — indeed , that he would not repeat his most kind offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Two days before the funeral Henry was asked to give a short speech , and although he began by saying he would not be able to talk , did n't think he could get the words out , was no orator , ended , of course by accepting . |