Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb mod] not [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Clintons will have exclusive use of the house during their term at the White House , although they will not own it . |
| 2 | Boys , he said , needed ‘ excitement ’ , and if they could not get it by legitimate ways then they would ‘ seek it in mischief and vice ’ . |
| 3 | If they can not do it in that time they never will . |
| 4 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
| 5 | If they can not agree it will have to go to a public inquiry . |
| 6 | Because the Horse Rangers is a voluntary , self-supporting organisation , members pay a weekly subscription of 5 , waived if they can not afford it . |
| 7 | By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable . |
| 8 | Our apprentices regularly leave Britain for training because they can not obtain it here . |
| 9 | the food basket ( i.e. rationed food ) is no longer taken advantage of in full by the poorer segments of the urban population simply because they can not afford it any more . |
| 10 | Hard up old folk will be forced to go without medicine because they can not afford it , Age Concern said today . |
| 11 | While they may not realise it , owners can be held liable if their dog attacks someone , or causes an accident or damage , and this policy covers them up to £1 million . |
| 12 | Oliver started to ask whether they could not drop it and go home , but it struck him that he was in a precarious position and he kept quiet . |
| 13 | That 's right , 'cos they might not do it . |
| 14 | Although southern Italians ate meat when they could afford it , gratefully , and quantities of beans when they could not afford it , it still gives me pleasure , at least , that the philosopher who established the doctrine of migrant souls taught in my mother 's homeland , where corks and bottletops might renew their lives as children 's toys , magazine pictures provide wallpaper , and tins turn into percussion instruments . |
| 15 | Just as they loved colour , they loved oratory , even when they could not understand it : in 1901 delegates at the Free Church Council meeting in Cardiff stood up to welcome five former French priests . |
| 16 | Second , they may seek this type of identification with a partner and be disappointed when they can not find it . |