Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [modal v] not give " in BNC.

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1 A CHARGE of rape on a mentally handicapped girl was dropped yesterday after a judge ruled she could not give evidence against her alleged attacker .
2 for whom that I had to decide whether I was going to marry him or give him up and decided I could n't give him up so I married him and was extremely happy and was shattered when he died and I , I , a , it went from you know I , I never real , thought I would be as happy , could be as happy as I was
3 But I felt I could n't give up , for my own sake or the baby 's .
4 Thought I ca n't give one without the other .
5 But I thought I wo n't give her room to talk .
6 She felt she could not give up totally , but settled for three or four slim cigars a day instead of ten to fifteen cigarettes .
7 She knew she must n't give in to it .
8 He felt he could not give public evidence , for fear of reprisals against his family in Colombia , but spoke with great compassion about the plight of ‘ disappeared ’ people in his native country .
9 GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday admitted he wo n't give Paul Gascoigne his international return against Norway next month .
10 I said I would n't give him .
11 Er but I said I could n't give him a definite quote for a price , because I would n't have the Committee .
12 Even when it was announced that she and Fabien had become formally engaged I would not give up my pursuit of her .
13 yeah we put it in the Leeds for , well they said they wo n't give you any money because Leeds have n't sent the cheque back .
14 Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made .
15 Representatives at the conference said they could n't give any details .
16 Mr Grover had pointed it out and said it would n't give any trouble .
17 County party chairman Kees Maxey said he could not give the reasons why Mr Knight was rejected because the outcome was decided by a secret ballot .
18 Dickinson said he could n't give any and I should just go and get on with it . ’
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