Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [coord] [vb mod] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked by , someone 's car stuck there and would not move , and a neighbouring farmer , irritably habituated to such incident , hauled it to the road with his tractor . |
| 2 | The electric kettle broke down and will not work unless somebody stands beside it holding in the knob . |
| 3 | Before closing the door he looked outside but could not see Melody , or anyone else . |
| 4 | He did so but could not get it to work . ’ |
| 5 | It was clear to me that we dared not and could not use money from the Department . |
| 6 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 7 | This was material which the poet did not and could not perceive . |
| 8 | The agreement signed by Mr Vaughan in 1982 did not and could not entitle or compel Mr Vaughan to become a joint tenant of the whole of the flat with Mr Cook in 1985 … |
| 9 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 10 | I did not and could not touch you where you wanted to be touched . |
| 11 | G.C. Allen , the doyen of British Japanologists , put it this way ‘ although government fostered growth in Japan = = it certainly did not and could not prescribe the policy to follow ’ ( 1981 p.192 , italics added ) . |
| 12 | The SDP did not and could not have a good war . |
| 13 | Typically , contractors claim that they did not and need not have allowed in their tender for doing the disputed work . |
| 14 | And King Henry , alone in his chamber , held his head between his hands for fear it should burst with anger and chagrin , and something else which he did not or would not recognise for pure hatred . |
| 15 | Kermit and his staff watched and waited — they were expecting a blow but they did not or could not comprehend how severe it was to be . |