Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [vb infin] or [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the defendant is a person under disability he may not defend or counterclaim except by his guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 1(2) ) , see Chapter 5 . |
| 2 | The northern English towns might not know or care that Wall Street had crashed . |
| 3 | Faye could not paint or draw while lying in bed , but in the mornings Belinda usually read to her for an hour while she rested her eyes , then left her alone for the remainder of the morning to rest or scribble ideas for future painting projects . |
| 4 | Father said she 'd not eat or drink till she gave in ? |
| 5 | I could n't read or write because I could n't see . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the British Army of the Rhine would not confirm or deny whether the documents were genuine , saying yesterday : ‘ We do not comment about these matters . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't cook or clean because you all do that , I do n't even sew very well because you do it better , I ca n't play or draw , not really — ’ |
| 8 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |
| 9 | I ca n't work or read or play or anything until I know that you will some day be mine ! |
| 10 | ‘ For as long as I am the champion I will not recognise or defend or fight for their dishonoured belt . ’ |
| 11 | Wo n't smudge or run when touched and can be cleaned off with ordinary remover . |
| 12 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 13 | There is absolutely nothing you can not eat or drink if you want to . |
| 14 | ‘ That was a private penance — because a hundred and seventy Marines were lost in one terrible action , and because the Emperor can not taste or smell or touch . ’ |
| 15 | One last shattering figure is that 700 million adults can not read or write and 250 million children under 14 do not attend school . |
| 16 | At school and even now , I can not add or subtract or divide easily , but I can write clear figures — this is drawing ; and I can arrange my figures neatly in line , and one sum next to the other , i.e. design . |
| 17 | She is talking about an enemy which you can not see or hear or smell . ’ |