Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [coord] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I used to feel so miserable dieting , always thinking about foods I wanted but could not eat . |
| 2 | Halfway through lunch , this blonde , baby-faced girl started to kill herself with anxiety because she saw someone she knew but could not remember their name . |
| 3 | ‘ For me ? ’ she said and could not keep the longing out of her voice . |
| 4 | In so far as the historic cost pricing rules applied , the large consumers were subsidised like others initially , but , by the mid-1950s , their prices probably reflected long-run costs fairly accurately ( though they correctly , if somewhat ineffectively , complained about the continuing subsidy to the domestic consumer , which they suspected but could not prove ) . |
| 5 | In Re Peachdart ( 1983 Ch.D. ) the sellers of leather which the buyers then made into handbags could reserve title in the leather which they supplied but could not reserve title in the handbags which were newly created goods . |
| 6 | He heard and would not hear . |
| 7 | He braked but could not avoid the pedestrian whom he thought was wearing dark clothing . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll be told in good time , ’ he said and would not listen when Goll the Gorm said , crossly , as they trooped out , that it was always the same ; they were not told what was going on and it was a disgrace and a scandal and there 'd be a revolution at Tara before much longer , if there would n't be an outright war . |