Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must not work herself up into a terrible temper on supposition . |
| 2 | But her heart , her poor , long-neglected heart , had answered yes , before her head had even begun to calculate all the reasons she absolutely could not and should not give herself over to this madness . |
| 3 | Although they are somewhat late in entering the bids scenario , I believe we should not rule them out since having talked to my partner in Italy , he regards them very much as an niche buyer . |
| 4 | I should not expect them back before late in the afternoon . |
| 5 | If he has only tinned fruits and custard in his larder , he should not serve them up as coupe de fruits avec creme anglaise . |
| 6 | Now that the Press releases have all been dispatched , the publicity details more or less finalised , I see no reason why I should not put you out of your misery , allay those nasty suspicious thoughts of yours ! ’ |
| 7 | However , if your circumstances change , and you can not keep to an arrangement , tell the fuel supplier , who should not cut you off without offering you another arrangement or a pre-payment meter . |
| 8 | ‘ Miss Malcolm , I 'm surprised that such a powerful voice , such a powerful manner , that we should not hear it out of the chorus … ’ |
| 9 | Yeah but you must have it you must n't pass it on to anybody else . |
| 10 | She must n't let her out of her sight , not until Tommaso 's leave was over and he was safely back in Caserta . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I 'm on edge , but I should n't take it out on you — you ca n't be exactly jumping for joy at the thought of seeing Garry with another woman . ’ |
| 12 | I also wonder what will happen if I have a second child — Mark might not make it back from work in time to be with me . ’ |
| 13 | One of the big dangers of group training is that if the first one has n't got the skills skills is that he might not get anything out of it . |
| 14 | The rest of us intend staying right where we are — and Meredith Putt will find he 'll not move us on without a fight . ’ |
| 15 | However , both the Commission and national authorities are bound not to disclose any business secrets and therefore the recipient of any such document could not pass it on to any other national authority or use it otherwise than for the investigation in hand . |
| 16 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 17 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 18 | Lesley-Jane could not keep her back to the door indefinitely and turned . |
| 19 | Johnny was immediately made captain , a position he held for nearly five years , and scored on his debut , but even Johnny 's seven goals from the 12 remaining games could not keep us out of the new basement division . |
| 20 | She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home . |
| 21 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
| 22 | Building a new lymphad ; hunting ; fighting — a wee private raid or two for cattle from the Camerons , nothing serious ; other girls ; even whisky by the barrel could not blot her out of his mind . |
| 23 | Even Shelford could not work them out of that one . |
| 24 | Her royal plane , she explained , could not get her back to Sandringham that early December night because of bad weather . |
| 25 | She tried , bitterly , to resist this fatal colouring ; she tried to reduce the trip to words upon a notice board ; but the mind had gone its own way , and she could not force it back into its grey and natal landscape . |
| 26 | Regarding the Marshall , I criticised the fact that you could n't set it up in a rack with , say , a radio system and leave it rigged , because you 'd have to unplug it every time you used it . |
| 27 | ‘ We could n't send him back to England . |
| 28 | And I said I could n't make it out at first . |
| 29 | They could n't tell you off for not turning off the lights but you were n't meant to be out of your dorm or even out of bed . |
| 30 | A problem , because I do n't want a full-blooded plant-growing lighting set-up — in fact I could n't fit one in on the budget and in any case the undergravel and media I 'm using might not be conducive to growth . |