Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] he [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 2 | And then everything goes wrong when he ca n't get me to go round there and pinch it . ’ |
| 3 | Consulate staff in Riyadh confirm Mr Devine wants to get home as soon as possible so he wo n't appeal , although back in Britain , his MP is pressing the Foreign Office to intervene . |
| 4 | Then Labour 's education spokeswoman , Hilary Armstrong said Mr Fallon 's assurances were worthless because he can not make commitments for the next Government . |
| 5 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's something in one of Kipling 's stories about a fellow who says he knows his soul 's gone rotten because he ca n't get drunk any more . |
| 7 | Mr. Major must be blind as well as blinkered if he ca n't see the serious , dangerous and dismal developments which have reached crisis point since MPs went on holiday six weeks ago . |
| 8 | And he 's really getting frustrated cos he could n't go and then she said well no , you 've got ta do it ! |
| 9 | He gets frustrated when he ca n't win though . |
| 10 | She said he 's most upset because he ca n't drive any more , erm |
| 11 | A LABOURER who was depressed because he could n't get a job was found dead in the rear of a stolen van parked behind a college annex , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 12 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 13 | Sometimes he felt himself wince and it was strange because he could n't tell whether it was the needle or his memory . |
| 14 | Agree flexible arrangements for your son to visit ( I say flexible because he wo n't want to feel obliged to turn up every weekend ; that way , the visits wo n't become a chore for you or for him ) . |
| 15 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 16 | He started shaking if you said ‘ Hello ’ too loudly and for several hours after his punishment felt very hungry because he could n't hold a knife and fork long enough to get the food into his mouth . |
| 17 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 18 | But bedtime was at the usual time and , though Francie returned very late , he was slightly drunk so he could not have been to church . |
| 19 | Daly is a human roller-coaster ; last of the four-day survivors at last summer 's Open because he could not handle the tight approaches , first again six weeks later when he shot 67 , 66 , 67 , 66 to grab the $144,000 first prize at New York 's BC Open . |
| 20 | The burden of proof is on the plaintiff to prove negligence and this may be difficult as he may not know what happened . |
| 21 | If you give a deaf person the score of a piece by Bach or Mozart , he can learn to see the composition of themes and their recurrence but not why this is so marvellous because he can not feel it . |
| 22 | Drew admitted that they might well be correct as he could not remember . |
| 23 | ’ Pilinski had to redraw his copy of the old and valuable original because he could not paste the original on his block and engrave through it . |
| 24 | I had wished Nour dead because he would not stay with me , and that had been a palimpsest of desire . |
| 25 | He was bitter because he could n't inherit the glory they unwittingly advertised . |