Example sentences of "she [modal v] not [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must not give in . |
| 2 | But was that not what she wanted — for a voice outside the clamour of her own head to tell her that she need not go back , that she must not go back ? |
| 3 | Then , curled up in bed that night , she told Fenna that she must not do it anymore , she must not wander off , he must not let her . |
| 4 | High ladders from which she must not look down ? |
| 5 | But there was no reason why she should not stretch out on the forward superstructure and get in a little sunbathing . |
| 6 | the thing with them , a bed with them , she 'll not come in now , and never come , no reason why not , cos I know she smokes so what does she do that we have n't to know , so I says oh I says this bed is n't gon na keep being here and no An no Angela in it |
| 7 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 8 | She could not make out the patch of canary-coloured light on the opposite wall , could not make out why the sun was shining and why her brown-stained hand , on the sheet , would not move for cold . |
| 9 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 10 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 11 | But she could not make out his face , obscured from her by shadow and the oblique angle at which he had set his seat . |
| 12 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 13 | The he made a U turn and drove away so rapidly that she could not make out his number , only the red tail light diminishing , at more than legal speed , down the deserted Embankment . |
| 14 | She could not sit down to talk , but kept moving around the room polishing doors and furniture although they already sparkled . |
| 15 | She could not shake off the effect of the dream despite Comfort 's kindness , and her muscles still trembled . |
| 16 | She felt she could not give up totally , but settled for three or four slim cigars a day instead of ten to fifteen cigarettes . |
| 17 | Jenna did not have her mother 's memories , she could not conjure up his face , and she knew that this fact alone would haunt her if she stayed away . |
| 18 | She could not go up , only down . |
| 19 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 20 | She could not go on , and Ernest 's face fell . |
| 21 | She took one step forward , then realized she could not go on . |
| 22 | She could not go back , because we had disposed of the business , along with her tools and much of her furniture , but not her fender , which would arrive at Hale-wood in due course . |
| 23 | Clearly she could not go out through a locked door — so where is she ? ’ |
| 24 | Her balance was very poor ; she could not stand up on her own , because strong associated reactions would pull her left side over ; her left Achilles tendon was extremely tight ; her left shoulder was very painful ; her arm was pulled into a bent position , with the hand tightly closed in a fist ( flexor spasm ) ; she could hardly sit up straight because of the severe spastic muscle pull on the left side of her body ; her mother had to push Dawn everywhere in her wheelchair , and give her total nursing support . |
| 25 | Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year . |
| 26 | When she woke she found her hand covered with blood which she could not wash off until she went to church to confess to the priest . |
| 27 | As his lips pressed against hers , warm and exciting , she could not hold back the longing inside her . |
| 28 | And she could not sort out her brain while he stood less than a foot away , watching her with eyes that gave away nothing of his own thoughts . |
| 29 | In Jane 's case , she could not snap out of a lifetime of worry overnight . |
| 30 | And yet , she could not apply that anger to jealousy , she could not storm out across the field and challenge Wynne-Jones 's daughter for the body of the man they both , in their own ways , loved . |