Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Christians can agree 25 December as the supposed date for an alleged birth it should not take them 2,000 years to agree a date for an alleged death . |
| 2 | Having coined and rehearsed the right phrases he never saw any reason why he should not use them several times , so he concluded , ‘ We do n't , I take it , want the police putting their big feet in it all over the place . ’ |
| 3 | It may not make them popular , but it will usually make them right . |
| 4 | Mr Menem 's show of leniency towards a few elderly officers may not keep them quiet for long . |
| 5 | You could not help them all . |
| 6 | So they could n't leave them all standing outside . |
| 7 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 8 | Just about Epilady , but I could n't stand them waxed ! |
| 9 | erm you could n't pay them ten pound a week |
| 10 | Alas , we could n't visit them all . |
| 11 | Alas , we could n't visit them all . |
| 12 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 13 | I could n't fit them all in . |
| 14 | Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees . |
| 15 | I do n't know how many rooms the Star Zoo had ; I could n't count them all . |
| 16 | You could n't join them wide , join them up and confuse actually . |
| 17 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 18 | ‘ They detonated an explosive device next to one , and it disintegrated into so many pieces they could n't find them all . |
| 19 | I thought I could n't find them last week . |
| 20 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 21 | In fact he could n't get them all in , and he acquired a second box , a small tea chest he found , with metal corners . |
| 22 | I could n't get them any closer . |
| 23 | Could n't get them clean . |
| 24 | Could n't call them classy , but they are up there also … |
| 25 | ‘ These new lambs would die if I could n't keep them warm for a while . |
| 26 | Strengthening your muscles need not make them bigger , but firm and taut . |
| 27 | The arguments could be developed in several quite different forms , and we need not list them all . |
| 28 | Again you need n't ask them all that erm if Mr challenges . |
| 29 | Good deeds were good in themselves , and the ears and eyes and approval of the world would not make them better — quite the reverse . |
| 30 | He does not , however , make the powerful point which had some currency at the time , that even were there universally accepted beliefs which were innate , this would not make them true , and so something we knew . |