Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man approached and Wexford could n't stop him . |
| 2 | Fleischmann and Pons could n't do this and Jones invited them to bring their ( working ! ) cells over to Brigham Young University so that his neutron spectrometer could measure a detailed spectrum . |
| 3 | Cos dad 'll be working I think and Miss Mrs is n't going and Mrs ca n't go , I might as well go . |
| 4 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 5 | Strawberry waited politely for him to finish speaking and Hazel could not help feeling pleased that he must have heard . |
| 6 | ‘ A chance in a million , ’ he was saying and Lee could not help but agree with him . |
| 7 | Cross-examined by Leeona Dorrian , QC , for the Department of Transport and the Health and Safety Executive , he acknowledged that the collisions at both Bellgrove and Newton would not have occurred had their current single-track lay-outs had not been introduced . |
| 8 | As Oreste grew he would become more expensive to keep and Ellen might not find his maintenance so easy . |
| 9 | The bus was a long time coming and Gloria would n't play anything , just stood there staring at nothing until finally she said , ‘ Now I ai n't got him no more . ’ |
| 10 | Their offer was , however , refused and Gloucester may not have been sorry . |
| 11 | Their offer was , however , refused and Gloucester may not have been sorry . |
| 12 | Yorick and Newley ca n't confirm they tried to ring her . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're nine on Thursdee , ’ Tom repeated but Willie could n't think of anything to say . |
| 14 | ‘ But we 've tried and Maureen ca n't bear to finish any more than I can . |
| 15 | ‘ A silly waste of 'ard-earned brass , ’ Jonadab asserted and George could not help but agree . |
| 16 | If such discouragement had been heeded , penicillin would never have been discovered , Florence Nightingale would have stayed home with her tatting and Hannibal would not have attempted to take elephants across the Alps . |