Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 2 | Well that 's it it should n't cos they take |
| 3 | Yeah , they should n't , they should n't cos his music was made for that time . |
| 4 | It should n't if it 's tipped correctly and monitored correctly , and controlled correctly . |
| 5 | " Oh I should n't if I were you — what are we going to live on here ? |
| 6 | Enid : You should n't because it is wrong . |
| 7 | While many older children will be able to understand the proceedings and give coherent instructions , others may not because their capacity to understand is hampered by permanent or temporary disability . |
| 8 | no , she might not cos she 's in a different year to us |
| 9 | Well they might not because there are people I mean like me students who might not . |
| 10 | I 'll not if you like . |
| 11 | The answer must be that it could not since the fact of adopting depreciation accounting severs the link with finance . |
| 12 | Life after Brian could not after started better for United … just 41 seconds after kick-off they were in the lead … a defence slip-up by watford but they all count … |
| 13 | Life after Brian could not after started better for United … just 41 seconds after kick-off they were in the lead … a defence slip-up by watford but they all count … |
| 14 | He sat quietly , thinking the thoughts he could not while she was awake . |
| 15 | She knew she ought to report the death , but felt she could not because of the passage of time . |
| 16 | In James ' view , it could not because it was not , and , as he had throughout the previous decade , he remained implacably opposed to the Soviet regime under Stalin . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been wanting to tell you for ages , but I could n't while you were so worried . |
| 18 | Adults , who have been able to read and spell for years , tend to forget what it was like when they could n't unless they have recently learnt a foreign language . |
| 19 | I mean if we are positively going to have junior church , we could say , Well could n't As we are the earlier , why ca n't they |
| 20 | ‘ Well , of course we could n't if we had to , but my godmother really is a fairy godmother . |
| 21 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 22 | Nutty cried out , stung by adults ' crass thinking , wanting one thing , saying another , saying you had to when you did n't want to , and you could n't when you did want , saying you were no good when you were , and good when it was something that did n't matter , like a pootling poem or something . |
| 23 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 24 | He tried to move , but he could n't until a voice shouted in his head , ‘ Get help . |
| 25 | She could n't because she was too busy . |
| 26 | She would have liked to have kissed him then , but could n't because they were in the street . |
| 27 | ‘ We wanted to tour and sell records around the world but we could n't because we were locked in England on an indie label . |
| 28 | The doctor arrived very promptly and attempted to sound Michael 's chest , but of course could n't because of the plaster jacket . |
| 29 | She was trying to stand up in the pool but could n't because of the costume . |
| 30 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |