Example sentences of "dare [not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 the other one was a bit , what was the love that dare not speak it 's name ?
2 Athelstan dare not tell him that he had already resolved one of them .
3 I would recommend a 7.50 x 16 radial fitted to your own rims or to modestly wide eight spoke rims ( I dare not tell you my preference or people will think I am biased towards Michelin ) .
4 The leadership may purge the apparatus , but it dare not eliminate it , and it is not about to take an axe to itself .
5 What is so wrong with Kinnock that even his own courtiers dare not expose him to challenge ?
6 I dare not leave you here alone . ’
7 She dare not ask him whether his proposal was thereby withdrawn .
8 Maybe I shall hear full soon enough , but I dare not ask him about the poor lady .
9 This , Emecheta explains , is a very strong goddess of the Ibos , so strong that Hausa soldiers dare not attack her for fear of being made impotent .
10 Dana threatened to do just that if I did n't ‘ dance attendance ’ ; Garry is easily swayed and still half in love with Dana — I dare not risk it . ’
11 Yet I dare not approach her , for with my regular middle-class , musty Oxbridge voice , I felt miles from her vernacular .
12 I dare not let thee go .
13 Dare not let me stir .
14 I dare not let them be .
15 We get so many people who have never ridden before , therefore we dare not put them on anything that is too high-spirited . ’
16 Of what followed I can not tell in detail — I dare not put it into words .
17 Nutty dare not discuss it with her .
18 This is the sort of thing my mob is supposed to be ironing out and they dare n't admit they 've even been involved — except by whispering to people like Sprague .
19 Oh oh yeah well there was no option , you 'd got to cos you dare n't speak you 'd oh er friendly in our lunch break you know er dinner break really we did n't have lunch time erm we were all friendly together and er as I say er we got on alright , but you 'd er you 'd got to stick at your job absolutely you dare n't move oh , they do n't know they are born today
20 That 's another reason we 're dare n't send it off .
21 You dare n't move you see
22 Yeah , well I think that we ought to get them or somebody to put a retraction , I mean we dare n't do it ourselves , but I think in next month 's
23 If we 're going to live in these fields , we 'll have to get on terms with his lot sooner or later , and it goes against the grain to hang about and admit we dare n't visit them . "
24 He , she said I dare n't leave them together two minutes she said our Liza 'll play hell out of our Alan !
25 I dare n't leave them that , dare I ?
26 And you had to put it in the letter box , you dare n't leave it in the in the .
27 Only I did n't , dare n't mention it to the doctors you know .
28 But he just loses his temper and refuses to come , so now I dare n't mention it .
29 This I dare n't give him .
30 so this means you dare n't give him anything now .
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