Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [pron] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 2 | The dishwasher broke down and they could not keep pace with the washing up . |
| 3 | The players are down but they could not have given any more . ’ |
| 4 | The roof of the barn concerns me because eventually it will fall in but I dare not start on it just yet — the house must take priority . |
| 5 | I passed through and I could not get back … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The Palace deal nearly went through but it would not have been the same as this , ’ said Phelan . |
| 7 | Without that money we would not carry on and we could not carry out our work effectively . |
| 8 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 9 | She and her husband were on the brink of breaking up and she could not cope with personal relationships . |
| 10 | Well I hope there 's nobody in Coulson House because it 's boarded up and I can not see how you get a vacant bed in Coulson House and this is this exercise . |
| 11 | ‘ My mind 's made up and you 'll not change it . |
| 12 | I 'll drive you to Glasgow the minute the snow lets up but I 'll not hear a word about it . ’ |
| 13 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 14 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 17 | The l.e.d. 's must be connected the correct way round or they will not work — the shorter lead denotes the cathode ( k ) end . |