Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not put [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | So , show me yours otherwise I might not put something down . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd not put it past him to lock me up … ’ |
| 5 | Of what followed I can not tell in detail — I dare not put it into words . |
| 6 | It is true that a form of haematuria is called ‘ essential ’ , but I can not believe Eliot was referring to that , though I would not put it past him . |
| 7 | Alyssia asked , puzzled , although she could not put her finger on why . |
| 8 | In a letter to Robson she described their rekindled passion , feeling only slightly aggrieved that she could not put her arms around him ( presumably they go straight through ) . |
| 9 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 10 | But she could not put it off forever . |
| 11 | She would not put it past him to use force . |
| 12 | ‘ You will not put me off so easily , Alfred the Learned , ’ said the Friar . |
| 13 | Another reason that we should be against the Labour party is that we should not put them in a position to buck the trend . |
| 14 | There is no reason why we should not put our wishes into writing in a ‘ Living Will ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ True , we must not put them in more danger than is needful . |
| 16 | We get so many people who have never ridden before , therefore we dare not put them on anything that is too high-spirited . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If we did not feel 100 per cent positive about our ability to fly the plane safely , we would not put it in the air . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We have the men , ’ cried Enderby , ‘ we have the measures , we have the message — but we can not put it across ! |
| 19 | We can bring you back at home or if they insist that you go back in an ambulance , you may , they may not put you back home you know , have you thought of that ? |
| 20 | well they may just put it , a photograph of it in their offices , they may not put it in the paper |
| 21 | But a mere ‘ gut feeling ’ on the part of your superiors that you fall short of what is expected , when they can not put their fingers on what is wrong , is not really good enough . |
| 22 | These other Electors can vote for their chosen candidate , but they can not put themselves forward as Emperor . |
| 23 | These boys and others like them will not put us off . |
| 24 | Of course a certain amount of caution is necessary , for how else is the child to learn that he should not put his hand in the fire or stick his finger into an electric socket ? |
| 25 | One of a director 's fiduciary duties of particular relevance in management buy-outs is that he must not put himself in a position where his duty to the company may conflict with his personal interest . |
| 26 | He must not put his life in danger by staying here . ’ |
| 27 | We would have to hope for a Tory victory , but , because of the uncertainty about the outcome of the election , he could not put her on the waiting list . |
| 28 | He could not put them to the Committee and I look forward to seeing whether they can be put forward tonight . |
| 29 | And he 's filled all the front in and the back , like , referees and everything and he said inside you 've got to give your details of your erm employment history and he 'd not put anything in , said I did n't know whether to put anything on there cos I 'm on a Y P . |
| 30 | mm he 'd not put it on the drive this time |