Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should not pause to sniff at the scents of other dogs , at the same time remaining very responsive to its owner 's instructions , adjusting its stance slightly , perhaps , to show off its finer points . |
| 2 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 3 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 4 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |
| 5 | The old order may not have changed at the front but there are encouraging signs for the future further down the field . |
| 6 | The train was at last " on different rails " and Unionists could not fail to rejoice at the disarray on the left , but the different rails might prove more suitable for Trotsky 's " locomotive of History " than for Unionist imperialism . |
| 7 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 8 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 9 | She could not bear to look at the fallen doll in white satin and tulle . |
| 10 | Harry could not help smiling at the boy 's excessive politeness . |
| 11 | Penelope could not help smiling at the formality of his words . |
| 12 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 13 | Nobody wanted any more , which was just as well , as there was n't much left and she could n't face hacking at the carcase . |
| 14 | I could n't face sitting at the station waiting for him to turn up : I was damn well going to make him wait for me . |
| 15 | ‘ She looked at every single one of the hundreds of photos and could n't stop smiling at the memory . |
| 16 | When planning staff at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire said the Union flag outside the Bell Hotel in the town needed planning permission because the flag pole was n't vertical , they could n't have guessed at the outcry . |
| 17 | When I did yours I could n't help looking at the photographs in the leather frame . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I just could n't help laughing at the idea of the Devil himself sitting by my fire … |
| 19 | She could n't help laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation . |
| 20 | I could n't wait to finish at the studio that day so I could slip down the record shop to pick up a copy , and several months later I still have n't stopped playing it . |
| 21 | Maggie sat at the table , thinking that she did n't know about the proposed camp but could n't wait to get at the promised bathing facilities . |
| 22 | So it 's like that without , I mean , with Carla , I mean , you ca n't you know , you just ca n't think when you 've got ta I mean she would have been bored and she would n't have looked at the gifts . |
| 23 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |