Example sentences of "would [adv] be [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was away and would not be back for two weeks . |
| 2 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 3 | AFTER The Graduate finished shooting , Dustin returned to New York to live quietly with Anne and her daughter Karina in his small Greenwich Village apartment on West 11th Street , having absolutely no conception of how his performance or the film would be received and not fully realising that the long days of anonymity would soon be over for ever . |
| 4 | So , surely there could be no objection to someone taking a look at a place that would soon be up for sale anyway ? |
| 5 | As I said to her we 've got two shelves of hardbacks in the alcove because I do think they furnish a room as the man said , but I would n't be on for lending them out because you do n't know the condition they 'd come back in . |
| 6 | He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer . |
| 7 | You 'd think he 'd have told you he would n't be around for the next week or two . |
| 8 | The sweet williams would n't be out for a few days . |
| 9 | we were gon na go down there , but erm nan and granddad had been down there about a fortnight ago and they said they had n't got a lot out yet , they said they would n't be out for about another three weeks , so about |
| 10 | And Gloria would n't be back for hours . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll stay overnight , of course , ’ Agnese had decreed , when it became obvious that they would indeed be around for the party . |
| 12 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |