Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can not think why anyone would want to do this to me , ’ she said . |
| 2 | . It 's not raining now I could have put everything out . |
| 3 | Well that one actually 's not advertized so it might have gone . |
| 4 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 5 | But as it stands , this declaration does not explain why we should accept these criteria , nor why Lenin 's proposal is anything other than arbitrary . |
| 6 | Even if we were to accept that no legislator should vote for the compromise , this would not explain why we should reject the compromise as an out-come . |
| 7 | Even so , navigation would be a problem — especially since you could not predict where you would arrive . |
| 8 | When the other person is an unknown commodity and we can not predict how they will react , the greater is our requirement for the armour of indirectness . |
| 9 | He nodded , not understanding why she should want it , but took it from his pocket and , edging down the bank , reached out and handed it to her , watching as she unscrewed the top , transforming it into a tiny cutting tool . |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher expressed confidence that she would win and declared again , as she had at the outset , that even if she did not win outright she would continue to a second ballot no matter how narrow the margin of her majority over Heseltine . |
| 11 | There has been some confusion — I do not know why there should have been because it was made clear last night by the Secretary of State for Wales — about the position of students . |
| 12 | She did not know why she should feel such fear , because she felt for her mother not respect , but contempt : and why should she lack courage before someone whose attitudes were to her so transparently , pettily contemptible ? |
| 13 | ‘ I do not know why I should tell you , ’ he said . |
| 14 | As we wait for Christ to be revealed we do not know when he will appear . |
| 15 | Like all other patients in her situation she does not know when she will get out . |
| 16 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 17 | As we do not know exactly what will appear in second-hand booksellers ' catalogues , the choice of books will of necessity have to be left to us , but your certificate will state the title of the book which you have presented . |
| 18 | A quick reminder , many people will know , but a quick reminder and er , if you 've perhaps just come back from holiday yourself , or you 're one of our new listeners , you may not know so I 'll tell you , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call , this very programme , will be breaking new ground at the end of next month . |
| 19 | To begin with , they left it too late — but , measuring the distance from Shiel Bridge way below and behind me , and judging the terrain , even though this modern road has been impressively built , I do not know how they might have bettered their arrangements . |
| 20 | He did not know how they would have known his household routines . |
| 21 | No , I am not astonished because , two years after announcing its local government plans , the Labour party still does not know how they would work . |
| 22 | People sometimes say they bear no malice but I do not know how they can say that . |
| 23 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
| 24 | If constitutional independence is what sovereignty is , I do not know how one can reduce it by pooling it . |
| 25 | He pointed at Mr Major and demanded : ‘ I do not know how you can sit there as Prime Minister of a Government that is capable of deceit on such a scale . |
| 26 | I do not know how you can hope to investigate crime effectively , without the assistance of the superior sex ! |
| 27 | ‘ Well ’ , I thought , ‘ she probably does not know how she ought to begin . ’ |
| 28 | I do not know how I shall manage this winter and dread it not for the weather which is rarely fierce , but for the loneliness . |
| 29 | I do not know how I could have coped without you and your friends here . ’ |
| 30 | I do not know how I can have fathered such children . |