Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] not even [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't even go to the toilet without her . |
| 2 | And I could n't even talk to you about them . |
| 3 | I would n't even go to limbo , Bernard , because I know about Him and have n't converted : I 'll have to go to hell . |
| 4 | seven thousand seven tho , seven now I ca n't even stretch to ! |
| 5 | I mean I wo n't even talk to myself am I ? |
| 6 | I wo n't even agree to having you partnering me at all these functions I have to attend as part of the job — and I 'll take whatever trouble you try to make for me — if you carry on treating me as you have been doing . |
| 7 | First , the Common Good' is held to be an illusory concept , which in practice is rarely used to refer to any aim that can fairly be called ‘ common ’ and which might not even refer to a good' at all ; pursuit of ‘ the Common Good ’ is therefore not useful as an identifying objective of democracy , and Schumpeter prefers to identify democracy not by its objectives but as a method . |
| 8 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll not even get to Reggane and that 's only a hundred and sixty kilometres into the desert . ’ |
| 10 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 11 | She could n't even write to her , lest her letters be opened by that two-faced ugly bitch of a matron . |
| 12 | It was in some figure you ca n't even relate to . |
| 13 | I mean you ca n't , you ca n't go any , I mean you ca n't even go to the Bridge for er , erm , a meal under a fiver so |
| 14 | I might just as well pack up and go if you ca n't even listen to things reasonably ! ’ |
| 15 | You ca n't even superimpose to that extent cos they 're slightly different ca n't even superimpose that my fingers ca n't superimpose cos they 're slightly different . |
| 16 | ‘ She would n't even speak to her when I first rang your home . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , I would n't have got all that much , but she would n't even agree to that , greedy cow . ’ |
| 18 | She would n't even agree to an engagement . |
| 19 | ‘ She wo n't even listen to us deny it . ’ |
| 20 | And we have no relatives there , so we can not even travel to West Germany to see uncles and aunts . |
| 21 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 22 | It is the resulting harm ( death ) which still dominates , as is evident from the fact that many forms of conduct fall within the law of manslaughter if death happens to result , whereas they would not even amount to a serious offence if a consequence less than death had ensued . |
| 23 | ‘ I hear things are so bad between the prince and princess , they ca n't even bear to be in the same room as one another , ’ said an estate worker . |
| 24 | I mean they ca n't even go to the shops sometimes and they 're not safe . |
| 25 | You will have to ask them — they wo n't even talk to us . |
| 26 | At first glimpse it may not even appear to be armoured , but if the animal is taken into a predator 's mouth its fur is sufficiently spiky to cause acute discomfort and it is quickly dropped . |
| 27 | It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria . |
| 28 | So now he could n't even bear to be with her . |
| 29 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 30 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |