Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] and [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The point about quality was that it should not and probably could not be confined . |
2 | James Tomlinson could not and still does not believe that he imagined seeing the mysterious passenger . |
3 | She would have liked to sleep again but found she could not and so she had to get up . |
4 | To acknowledge that she could not and never would ask Maggie for the mothering that she would give to her own mother . |
5 | Sharing between us our repertoire , we turned up two comedy songs , But I could n't and Just in the old sweet way . |
6 | But she knew it could n't and so she relaxed , exulting in the magic freedom of now . |
7 | That 's and he could n't and then mount this sort of operation . |
8 | This is how he was described by one of his courtiers , Walter Map : " Whatever way he goes out he is seized upon by the crowds and pulled hither and thither , pushed whither he would not and yet , surprising to say , he listens to each man with patience , and though assaulted by all with shouts and pullings and rough pushings , does not threaten anyone because of it , nor show any sign of anger ; only , when he is hustled beyond bearing , he silently retreats to some place of quiet . " |
9 | and Wednesday I ca n't and then |
10 | bores him , but he wo n't and then it pulls me , I want to do what the majority wants to do and then he do n't and I feel guilty cos I think oh I should be with him , but |
11 | ‘ unless a defendant is assured that information given in response to an order for disclosure can not and thus will not be used as evidence at his trial for the offences charged , he may well be entitled to refuse to supply the information on the ground that it would tend to incriminate him . |
12 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
13 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |