Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever you ca n't do anything alone , use the participative style to gain support . |
| 2 | ‘ You know how I ca n't stand to be fussed over . ’ |
| 3 | And if you 're a er golfer er you might go to the professional and say you know I 'm miss I 'm hooking , you know , can you show me how I ca n't do this ? |
| 4 | I mentioned that I missed my son and how I could n't see him . |
| 5 | Natasha 's father was there and was siding with my mother , saying how I could n't take Natasha , I was an unfit mother and how he was going to get me done . |
| 6 | ‘ Mm , ’ she said , wordless at how she could n't spit out that furious NO ! |
| 7 | ‘ Is n't it funny , ’ she said , ‘ how you ca n't like people when they 're doing that . ’ |
| 8 | Dr Johannsen told us all about the work you do , about how you would n't take payment for it , and you so hard up and all . |
| 9 | Curious how you could n't hear the music at all . |
| 10 | On and on he droned about how we should n't fear death but welcome the joys of heaven , so I picked up my two horse pistols and gave the sod both barrels . |
| 11 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 12 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 13 | if he disagrees or do n't do anything , but I ca n't see how he ca n't leave it , can be without it , has to know |
| 14 | He was studying to be a commercial artist and when he was in Mr Frampton 's art class ( this was Peter Frampton 's father ) in his later tears at Bromley tech , Frampton lectured the form on how he would not tolerate tapered trousers . ’ |
| 15 | In the silent happiness that was life in la Sologne , Jean-Claude explained to me why he was not working on Frontenac 's libretto and how he would not do so for any amount of money . |
| 16 | They recall the occasion when , as a boy , he had read in an epigraph two lines from Henry King 's " Exequy " — and how he could not rest until he had found and read the poem entire . |
| 17 | He remembered writing of Paula 's death , — of how he could not live without knowing the truth , and how , if he gave himself into the hands of the great Whale , he knew that he would be reunited with her in death . |
| 18 | They heard from two different witnesses how Harris had told how he could not live without her and if he could not have Faye , then no one else could . |
| 19 | It explained how he could n't find switches and did n't know the layout very well . |
| 20 | There was what has come to be called the inverted story , that is , a mystery which begins with the murderer being seen to commit the murder and in which the interest lies in seeing how he will not get away with it despite that apparent perfection of his method . |
| 21 | ‘ whence I shall not return , even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death … without any order , and where the light is as darkness . ’ |
| 22 | I always used to , there was a time when I would n't dream of painting indoors . |
| 23 | I 'll know when I ca n't sit in the blasted saddle . ’ |
| 24 | There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and it 'll certainly be sad day if he ever does decide to hang up those headphones . |
| 25 | There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and I certainly could n't fake it — but at the moment I relish people putting their hands round the door and saying , ‘ You call that music ? ! ’ . |
| 26 | There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and it 'll certainly be sad day if he ever does decide to hang up those headphones . |
| 27 | There may come a time when I ca n't find any new records that I like — and I certainly could n't fake it — but at the moment I relish people putting their hands round the door and saying , ‘ You call that music ? ! ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ There will come a time when I wo n't feel the need to make any music , ’ Waits 's says . |
| 29 | So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun . |
| 30 | Dorothea was there and the person she used to bring as a partner for Faith 's bridge games when I could not play . |