Example sentences of "so [pers pn] [vb mod] not [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't want to get Barrymore and his wife into trouble , so I shall not tell the police . |
| 2 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 3 | I use a lot of sticky lables , so I wo n't have a problem with the new stamps . |
| 4 | Well I 'm hoping I 'm going to have a nice week but it Mavis , my housekeeper 's away until Wednesday so I ca n't leave the house during the day . |
| 5 | ‘ No , he 's not coming this way , so I ca n't get a close look , but I 'm sure it 's not him . ’ |
| 6 | He shoved my shirt in my mouth first , so I would n't make a noise . ’ |
| 7 | Although I installed Legato , it was some time ago , so I may not remember the name of the directory where it was installed ; but Windows can provide this information . |
| 8 | I tried to start the engine but the airman on the starter battery trailer had fled so I could not do a thing except huddle in the cockpit , waiting for the sensation of being hit . |
| 9 | The chimney is blocked so I could n't light a fire to heat anything up and I went without a hot drink for those four days . |
| 10 | I did n't own a pair of binoculars , so I could n't observe the birds as closely as I 'd have wished , but I had something much closer to watch . |
| 11 | I 'm employed by the Corporation so I could n't sue the Corporation . |
| 12 | The driver was still in the cab , you see , so I could n't let the tyres down . ’ |
| 13 | I too have only one tank at the moment so I can not put the females in a separate tank as suggested by you and most of the books I have read . |
| 14 | Sufficient has been written in your columns about the latter match so I will not repeat the facts . |
| 15 | It must go to trial , so I will not grant an injunction ’ , as he may conclude , ‘ so I will grant an injunction ’ . |
| 16 | But I have already warned you to be on your guard against anything that any anthropologist has ever written about kinship terminologies , so I will not pursue the matter here . |
| 17 | She pressed her lips together so she would n't spout the truth . |
| 18 | This means they ca n't pay her any rent , so she ca n't pay the mortgage . |
| 19 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |
| 20 | Her sire is Glint Of Gold , so she should not mind the rain that has eased the Newmarket going . |
| 21 | It was clear from the reports that he was an insanely jealous man who , for example , ‘ made [ his wife ] walk with her head down so she could n't see the bulge in men 's trousers ’ . |
| 22 | He was right , she could breathe , but only if she closed her eyes so she could n't see the perspex two inches from her nose ! |
| 23 | It sounded like a question , but he had no intention of waiting for her answer , as he dropped down on the bed beside her , lacing his fingers through her lustrous brunette tresses , controlling the movement of her head so she could not escape the seductive power of his mouth as he took her unwilling lips with practised artistry . |
| 24 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 25 | He said he 'd hung a papier mâché tray in its place so she 'd not feel the absence of the picture . |
| 26 | Part-time work , so you ca n't expect the same rates as fulltimers would get . |
| 27 | Your gut can get infected , so you ca n't absorb the goodness in your food . |
| 28 | Now it did n't mean that you build his war machine , but the Kuwaiti people being so close , or actually bordering , we helped the economy of Baghdad , we helped the economy of the Iraq , and we contributed thirteen billion dollars , just the government alone , to their economy and the people of Kuwait also helped with their own private donation to help the schools , the hospitals , the food , whatever they needed , and the country of Kuwait was erm trying to be , as my friend said , as neutral as possible because there is Irani interest in Kuwait , very great through trade , through Iranis who work in Kuwait , so we had a very difficult position with respect to keeping both parties erm sort of in sight , not lose sight of them from our humanistic point of view , but it was erm difficult to avoid being on the side of the Iraqui , mainly because they 're neighbours and they 're Arabs , and you 're part of the league of Arab states , so you ca n't draw the line and say the government was pro or against , but that was the atmosphere which we were leaving . |
| 29 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 30 | It 's sort of bandaged up so you ca n't see the skin . |