Example sentences of "n't be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Point is , wo n't be here for tea . |
| 2 | The spinning streamers of fog trawled for sunlight that would n't be here for a while , and the snow had piled the purest of pillows at the foot of an ice-cliff . |
| 3 | ‘ I wo n't be here for your wedding , love , ’ she whispered . |
| 4 | They certainly wo n't be here for Christmas . |
| 5 | He wo n't be here for dinner probably . |
| 6 | well you can have the dog , but I wo n't be here for the week if you 're having a dog |
| 7 | It was true , but Wycliffe remembered Emily Pascoe 's words : ‘ … delicate ; you could see she would n't be long for this world . ’ |
| 8 | If he told her she might go straight back and he would n't be home for hours . |
| 9 | Probably would n't be home for weeks anyway . |
| 10 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 11 | Marilyn Brown says she accepts her son now wo n't be home for Christmas and his 29th birthday on January the 2nd . |
| 12 | Syl 's mother was highly displeased to see her and made a great to-do of fetching an extra cup , saucer and plate , worrying aloud that there would n't be enough for three of us to eat . |
| 13 | ‘ You start on the vodka and there wo n't be enough for us . ’ |
| 14 | The man should have seen that he was a different sort of case and would n't be there for long . |
| 15 | ‘ We may be 16th now , but we wo n't be there for much longer , ’ he said . |
| 16 | But they wo n't be there for ever . |
| 17 | ‘ Monica 's vision is of two years time , when Alex starts school and Rachel wo n't be there for him . |
| 18 | Even if there might n't be much for him in these parts , be it without strife that little would have God 's blessing on it . |
| 19 | If the laboratory scientists were there already — and Lorrimer , the Senior Biologist , never missed a homicide if he could help it — then there might n't be much for him to do . |