Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must make some progress , he thought , impose some order on the chaos which faced him or Burnell would not need to order his departure from Scotland . |
| 2 | Not that , I 'm sure , India or Pakistan could n't put a mugging team in the next Olympics if they wanted to , but it was unusual . |
| 3 | Tactically , he may not be Brearley or Fletcher , for he sticks with what he knows ; but Brearley or Fletcher could not bat like Gooch . |
| 4 | Tactically , he may not be Brearley or Fletcher , for he sticks with what he knows ; but Brearley or Fletcher could not bat like Gooch . |
| 5 | She is a cold , unfeeling and unresponsive woman : she must be , or Hugo would not have left her for me . |
| 6 | It 's an age-old problem and nothing that a dab of string lubricant or Vaseline would n't cure . |
| 7 | The light was behind him and Melanie could not see his face ; besides– Finn walked before her up the stairs . |
| 8 | All around her were the smiling faces so lacking at Oreste 's birth , for Ellen and William could not match the pride of Ferdinando nor the ecstasy of Pen , and she felt loved and treasured not pitifully alone and bereft . |
| 9 | Lennie knew about George 's craving for freedom and often threatened to leave , but George felt obliged to look after Lennie as Lennie could not fend for himself in a cave and Lennie could not cope with going to jail or a home to be treated like an animal . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that Penda 's political power was in eclipse at the time and that Eowa was the dominant ruler among the Mercians as a subject king of the northern Angles from the mid-630s until his death , possibly in Oswald 's army , in the battle at Maserfelth , but there is no reason why Penda and Eowa should not have been ruling jointly , with Eowa as king possibly of the northern Mercians and Penda as king of the southern . |
| 11 | Proven strikers are few and far between and Ferguson can not afford to gamble on potential . |
| 12 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 13 | I think that , you know George would n't mind er , and Maria would n't mind , maybe it 's Martin trying to find for for our Martin . |
| 14 | Now Florian adopted his spoilt-rotten superstar voice , and Maria could n't help smiling sardonically , recognising the onset of one of his boisterous moods . |
| 15 | Darren is two foot six of crew-cut aggro , and Jan wo n't hear a word against him . |
| 16 | His hair was the one major battle that Jazz had failed to win with his parents ; Jazz wanted to cut it , but uncut hair was a dogma of the Sikh religion and Jazz could n't win . |
| 17 | Raymond — well , Raymond ! — and Bernard would n't know how . |
| 18 | They all wore caps and goggles and black trunks and Nutty could n't tell who was who . |
| 19 | ‘ They do n't show it when they are hurt or tired and Gary could n't believe how little Biggs had got left . ’ |
| 20 | He jerked her back to face him and Isabel could n't repress a sharp cry of fear at the violence in his eyes . |
| 21 | And Rosie , Susan , Heather , Katie , Clara and Isabel could not resist her either ; they let her join them , weakly , unable to refuse such primitive intention . |
| 22 | It was the belief that France and Germany would not prove ready to join a common market , and that the scheme would collapse , that led Britain to distance itself from the Spaak committee late in the year . |
| 23 | Cross-examined by Leeona Dorrian , QC , for the Department of Transport and the Health and Safety Executive , he acknowledged that the collisions at both Bellgrove and Newton would not have occurred had their current single-track lay-outs had not been introduced . |
| 24 | Defensive kingpins Redmond and Pointon ca n't arrive at Boundary Park a moment too soon after last night 's embarrassing 4–2 friendly defeat at Stockport . |
| 25 | Gossip said that the Old King had seduced her and Richard would not marry his father 's mistress . |
| 26 | After all , there is loan interest to take into account , not to mention city centre rates , rent ( George and Marie wo n't have bought a city centre property for the £60,000 mentioned in the case ) and the increased travelling expenses . |
| 27 | As Oreste grew he would become more expensive to keep and Ellen might not find his maintenance so easy . |
| 28 | Sweetheart was alone when she came back into view , and Frankie could not recall when he had seen her look more beautiful . |
| 29 | The quarrel between Aldfrith and Wilfrid can not have been without its political dimension . |
| 30 | Christmas may now be more hectic than in most families , but John and Veronica would n't have it any other way . |