Example sentences of "would not be [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Knelle would not be meeting me until half past ten that night , after the theatre . |
| 2 | Yesterday Silas had assured her he would not be taking her to town — yet here she was , smartly dressed and ready to accompany them . |
| 3 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 4 | ( But , thought Alice , he would not be abandoning it for long ! ) |
| 5 | It is not that I am inferring information about him by analogy ; without the incipient mimicry I would not be perceiving him as a man , would be seeing him as an automaton only outwardly resembling myself . |