Example sentences of "[modal v] not [vb infin] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | So , whilst they may encourage an atmosphere of informal comradeship and sociable learning , college teachers are not your equals and you should not expect them to treat you as such . |
2 | He read in silence for a moment , then said , with a laugh , ‘ I see that you might enjoy this , although I am not sure your mama might not wish you to read it . |
3 | well I 'll get the car and you can go out , I says you 're not getting the car out and I 'll not go I said you can go |
4 | And even if they do know , they 'll not expect us to pursue it after this , neh ? ’ |
5 | Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards . |
6 | I 'll not let them see me . ’ |
7 | to the door , he 'll not let you touch him . |
8 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
9 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
10 | Oh , this could not be happening — that she loved him so , and yet could not bear him to caress her ! |
11 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
12 | I was desperate enough to consider rushing round the table pretending to be Pumblechook 's carriage , but I could not make myself do it , and just stood there helplessly . |
13 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am sorry you could not bring yourself to tell me about your parents . |
14 | When I plucked up the courage to ask my mother about it she just burst into tears and I could not bring myself to question her again . |
15 | But he could not bring himself to do it , especially not now , after Simon had revealed how she had spoken up for him . |
16 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
17 | He could not bring himself to say it . |
18 | But Harry could not bring himself to condemn him . |
19 | She wanted desperately to confide in someone about this , but once again found it impossible to find anyone suitable her mother was too distraught , her father was dead , and she could not bring herself to mention it to Miriam for fear of provoking some too blunt observations on the mysterious workings of a lady 's insides . |
20 | She could not bring herself to do it . |
21 | Still she could not bring herself to touch him , until , turning his head , she saw the scar , and without thinking leaned forward to kiss that , a butterfly kiss like his , to show him that she loved him — and his scar . |
22 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
23 | Despite the strength of her misgivings , she could not bring herself to voice them . |
24 | All explanations , all excuses were crude and deadly , and she could not bring herself to make them , but she could not sit there either , contemplating her own slow lapse from grace . |
25 | They believed in the myth and Diana could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth . |
26 | Not only do we not usually think of Snell 's law when we try to net a fish or tickle a trout , but we could not use it to help us do so even if we did . |
27 | Even with a perfect ear , you could not determine which shapes you were listening to , they say . |
28 | He could not ask her to define it further , that would be asking for flattery . |
29 | They looked just like those horrible Yahoos , and at first I could not let them touch me or come near me . |
30 | She could not let him read it now , in the middle of the preparations . |