Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a scientist I can not believe it — but I saw it happen with my own eyes . |
| 2 | The only concession I could not get was leave to see him alone , but it 's plain I should have got nowhere with him even so . |
| 3 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 4 | Yeah but if you do it above board I ca n't see |
| 5 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 6 | In which case I wo n't have a |
| 7 | So I thought well in case I ca n't get them anywhere else the market and he said well we 'll have one from here , twelve ninety nine . |
| 8 | Well in that case I would n't put him on er on a job that was made out on site but I would keep him in the |
| 9 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 10 | My room was on the landward side of Chapuis , so in any case I could not have watched the schooner depart . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ The first time I heard of a case I could not believe it . |
| 12 | in case I could n't do the job |
| 13 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 14 | But in any case I can not marry your son . |
| 15 | ‘ In that case I will not keep you any longer than I can help . ’ |
| 16 | It 's the foreign woman with an accent I could n't place . |
| 17 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 18 | If it 's not one who supplies my regular retailer I wo n't buy the fish . |
| 19 | ‘ So I thought if he were that kind of driver I would not get involved . |
| 20 | I was only just able to take care of myself so further responsibility I could not take . |
| 21 | ‘ At domestic club level I would not consider playing in the No 6 shirt , ’ said Clarke who made his England debut against South African last November . |
| 22 | On a personal level I ca n't go off and say ‘ Bye darling ’ , I 'll see you in a few years . |
| 23 | It says a lot for the authors ' efficiency in organising this cast subject that the only bit I ca n't pass without comment concerns the conservative backlash against the feminism of the Thatcher years . |
| 24 | Move over a bit I ca n't see |
| 25 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 26 | And there 's another bit by the science block and there 's another bit I ca n't remember now where but there was three areas that I suddenly identified , I 'm thinking it 's grotty , it looks awful |
| 27 | While climbing the last little bit I could n't help thinking of all the mates who had been killed . |
| 28 | As a Christian I can not accept any teaching that suggests that there is any kind of spirit in plant life . |
| 29 | Mum I ca n't find any mats ! |
| 30 | Mum I ca n't find it |