Example sentences of "girl [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just because you 're the poor fish my daughter married ; but then the unfortunate girl could n't get a better catch in her particular sea . ’ |
| 2 | A girl could n't close her eyes and ears to it , but she could keep herself pure . |
| 3 | The girl could not explain how the locket came to be among her clothes , and it was clear that her protestations of innocence were in vain . |
| 4 | Faced with a silenced pistol , pointed unwaveringly at his head , and not knowing that the girl could not have pulled the trigger against an innocent man , he acceded to her demand … |
| 5 | In Donovan a girl could not consent to the infliction of six or seven weals on her bottom . |
| 6 | Besides , foreign girl ca n't stay here alone . ’ |
| 7 | As Lorelei Lee said immemorably in Diamonds Are a Girl 's Best Friend , a girl ca n't go on laughing all the time . |
| 8 | This poor old girl ca n't go out for christmas dinner . |
| 9 | Er and the poor girl ca n't tell you what 's the trouble . |
| 10 | He had been driven to distraction when the five-month-old girl would not settle and struck her , causing extensive bruising , the Court of Session heard . |
| 11 | ‘ The girl would not like any harm to come to him , I warrant . ’ |
| 12 | I have said hundreds of times — in the House and outside — that , in 1979 , that girl would not have been homeless . |
| 13 | The reason Nicola 's GP had sent her to me was that the little girl would n't sleep at night , had tantrums and breath-holding attacks , and her mother wondered if she was allergic to something she was eating . |
| 14 | Emily willed her daughter to show the right amount of gratitude , she prayed that the girl would n't take it for granted . |
| 15 | Folly followed her guide , praying that the girl would n't ask why she wanted to see Luke Hunter , and trying to think up a good excuse in case she did . |
| 16 | ‘ Without knowing what it is I ca n't say — and it 's not something I can rush because the girl wo n't talk if she 's frightened , or she 'll talk but not tell us the truth . |
| 17 | If a little girl can not feel herself able to win the heart of her father , her own father who has known her so well and so long , and is tied to her by mutual blood-ties , I reasoned , then how can the young woman who comes later have any deep confidence in the power of her womanliness . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh my God , that girl can not wear that suit . |
| 19 | On the social issue , Hughes notes the recent concern that girls may not benefit so much as boys from using computers . |
| 20 | ‘ They believe girls should not speak up and that they should let their parents control their lives . |
| 21 | I 'm sun nice girls should n't make those kind of noises , ’ he added lamely . |
| 22 | Girls should n't do things like that . |
| 23 | His basic concerns involve the effects computer-use might have in fostering children 's ability to engage in disembedded thinking ; and the possibility that girls might not gain so much benefit from computer-use in school as boys . |
| 24 | There was a general statement throughout Rhodesia that African girls could not do maths . |
| 25 | This frankness was so unprecedented that the girls could not resent it ; they could not , in the context of school behaviour , take it seriously enough to resent it . |
| 26 | The applause that greeted them was like a thunder clap and went on for so long that the Girls could not hear the music and had to count under their breath to synchronize their kicks . |
| 27 | She says she thinks it was sexist when girls could n't take part . |
| 28 | My girls could n't lie to me . |
| 29 | ‘ Little girls ca n't cope with nasty reality . ’ |
| 30 | Although most girls ca n't wait to leave the home for their own place to do their own thing , some always come back to show what they 've achieved , or to say it was n't so bad in the home after all . |