Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | driving along , keep to the left except when road signals or markings indicate otherwise or when you intend to overtake , or turn right , or when you have to pass stationery vehicles or pedestrians in the road , allow others to overtake you if they want you , you must not drive on by the side of the road . |
| 2 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 3 | The question of taking pension holidays in between out of surplus is a sort of mid midway position , but er very definitely we feel strongly that money should not go back to the company . |
| 4 | While most , for example narcissi and scillas , should be planted as soon as they are bought , tulips should not go in to the garden until November . |
| 5 | But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’ |
| 6 | Coun Arthur Taylor said there was no planning opposition so they should not give in to the vandals by refusing the application . |
| 7 | It was heartfelt and deep , but Theo should not run off with the idea that it was all laughter and light and the cooing of turtle doves . |
| 8 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 9 | But there was no reason why she should not stretch out on the forward superstructure and get in a little sunbathing . |
| 10 | Finally , the scanner should not mess about with the image through fixed dither patterns or their various equivalents , we need to let the software do this . |
| 11 | But you must n't hang about in the morning then , neither ! |
| 12 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 13 | I 'm sure you should n't go round in the middle of a performance . |
| 14 | I love you should n't go out into the world , become a currency , a traded share , make profits for us . |
| 15 | Anyone who once thought a 73B bus was a giant blue salamander following him down Baker Street is living proof that you should n't mess around in the medicine chest . |
| 16 | It may or may not resolve on to the note it temporarily replaces . |
| 17 | Reading a work 's introduction can be helpful , though even then content may not live up to the billing , so that a sampling of the text is also advised . |
| 18 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 19 | They may not catch on in the north-east ! |
| 20 | Let's not end up like the keyboard players who have to call in programmers . |
| 21 | Rumour has it that ‘ Cope ’ , brilliant as it is , might not end up on the Aunts ' album , such is the ‘ glut ’ of material available . |
| 22 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 23 | CIBS ’ , its just the little matter of hairy legs that just might not fit in with the ra-ra skirts … ) |
| 24 | Even if the phone was answered , the client might not get through to the person he wanted . |
| 25 | ‘ I was in the war , ’ the poppy-seller at Charing Cross said , to explain why he could not go along with the media insistence that this was a good news story . |
| 26 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 27 | The human will could not stand back from the Great Battle raging in its own soul as well as in the world at large : it had to choose to contend either for God or the Devil . |
| 28 | Clearly the town could not hold out without the castle , which the Duke contemptuously dismissed as ‘ an old hen-coop which he would speedily bring down about their ears ’ . |
| 29 | And when the ship was caught , and could not bear up into the wind , we let her drive . |
| 30 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |