Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he says : ‘ When the chips drop , when I get out , I may not even want to box again . |
| 2 | in fact I might not even need to vacuum the floor , need I ? , if I pick that bit of paper up off there |
| 3 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 4 | Statements , questions like a torrent , that I could not even begin to stem . |
| 5 | I could not even attempt to lift it . ’ |
| 6 | But of course I could not simply refuse to co-operate , could not walk out , could not leave poor Clements without doing my best for him . |
| 7 | If you are interested in such matters track his words down , for they are succinct and carry a weight of authority I could not possibly hope to emulate . |
| 8 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 9 | How can I give you a dress allowance when I can not even afford to pay the rent on this flat ? ’ |
| 10 | The conclusion seems to be that if I recognize that I have once wrongly claimed to know that p , then I can not ever claim to know that p unless I can show a relevant difference between the two cases . |
| 11 | I can not now choose to return . |
| 12 | Among those which might not initially seem to permit postverbal adjectives are that versatile element keep , and also run , and play ; yet there is no problem about the following examples : ( 65 ) try to keep dry ! |
| 13 | AEA develops and supplies specialised products which can not only help to improve operations but also directly boost profitability . |
| 14 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 15 | But she may not always choose to have fewer children . |
| 16 | You should not normally have to pay more than your rates bill plus £52 . |
| 17 | We would therefore be able to bring in other measures which we have n't modelled so far er but that is also the guidance that you should bring in , not only nowadays you should not only look to build a bypass , you should look to complementary measures within the urban area . |
| 18 | Erm , shall we start , you might not even have to get the , shall we start it , the ball rolling then ? |
| 19 | The patient , whom I shall call Maxine , first came to see me because she had a phobia about water — a phobia which was becoming so exaggerated that she could not even bear to put her hands in water and had to rely on creams and lotions to cleanse her face and body . |
| 20 | Phoebe lived in a totally other world , a world she could not even begin to penetrate , a calm world of profound indifference , which is not the world that Maggie lived in , nor the one she wanted to live in . |
| 21 | But in her heart she knew there was no way in the world she would ever take up this incredible offer , which had been prompted by motives she could not even begin to fathom . |
| 22 | There was a momentary reaction at the back of his eyes , though she could not quite manage to interpret it . |
| 23 | To the snobbish traveller coach tours are a subject of derision , but since the inter-war period when coach touring really took off , thousands of people who could not normally afford to travel have seen countries other than their own through the comparative cheapness of coach travel . |
| 24 | Feather-headed serving girls who could not possibly hope to go unsuspected did steal from their mistresses . |
| 25 | Colonel Fergusson , who could not quite bear to inform his daughter that the human family sprang from the same impulse which animated a beetle striking its head against the walls of its box , replied that in his view the Fergussons were a happy accident . |
| 26 | She was no use — she 'd not even come to see what was happening . |
| 27 | ( v ) gave money or goods or services to the addict in your life when you could not really afford to part with these things . |
| 28 | She would not even bother to argue the rights and wrongs of what had occurred since it would be futile . |
| 29 | He would feint and leave two or three opponents sprawling or plodding in his wake before he released the ball , unerringly , to either the flying Joe Hulme , who would not even have to pause in his flight , or the absolutely devastating Cliff ( ’ ’ Boy'' ) Bastin , who would take a couple of strides and whip the ball into the net . |
| 30 | And it think that — I mean I like to have , if you go back and look at a Rolling Stone when I was doing it , there are pages in there , I would say one third of all the pages in there , you would not even want to print today . |