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<<in a completely non-rhotic accent, like most English accents, none of those words would have a rhotic sound (unless they were followed by a word starting with a vowel, in which case a linking [r] would be used).>>
Usually. However, I have heard nonrhotic speakers who have a glottal stop in place of the linking [r].
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In case you're curious, Lazar, Stephen and others, here's the basic rules to where there's rhotic pronunciation in my speech:
/r/ is pronounced before at the end of a word as in "wore", "bore" etc., but not before a consonant as in "board".
The exceptions are that where rhotic accents have [@`], I always have [@] even at the end of a word as in "zipper", and I always [3`] even before a consonant as in "burn".
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