Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We both know I 'll not live out the year . |
| 2 | But I would not rule out the others quite so easily as Ducati , he is sure to give Phillip McCallen , Terry Rymer , Joey and Robert Dunlop and Nick Jeffries plenty to worry about , not to mention Mitchell . |
| 3 | I shall not read out the main provisions of the agreement , because they fall outwith the terms of the Adjournment debate topic , but they are available to the general public , and to hon. Members in the Library . |
| 4 | I shall not take up the argument of the hon. Member for Durham , North ( Mr. Radice ) ; it would be unwise to do so . |
| 5 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 6 | I narrow my eyes to stare into his ; the light of the pub is dim as dust and I can not make out the pinpoints . |
| 7 | I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples . |
| 8 | However , you should not work out the entire mock interview beforehand or you will lose the element of spontaneity . |
| 9 | She could not make out the patch of canary-coloured light on the opposite wall , could not make out why the sun was shining and why her brown-stained hand , on the sheet , would not move for cold . |
| 10 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 11 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 12 | She could not shake off the effect of the dream despite Comfort 's kindness , and her muscles still trembled . |
| 13 | Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year . |
| 14 | As his lips pressed against hers , warm and exciting , she could not hold back the longing inside her . |
| 15 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 16 | The TV commentator was excitedly describing the drama , but although she strained to hear she could not pick out the name of the victim . |
| 17 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 18 | She would not take up the cudgels of such a battle . |
| 19 | He urged Leclerc to compromise : ‘ You can not put back the past : there is a new situation . ’ |
| 20 | I would suggest that we can deal with these parties if they arise but that we should not hold up the negotiations with the top four . |
| 21 | One must not open up the possibility for either partner in a marriage or a relationship to murder their partner , not as a result of a sudden , temporary loss of control , but as a result of a careful , well thought out and premeditated plan . |
| 22 | The consoling shrink tells George that , ‘ We must not rule out the possibility that you are a bird — a loony bird . |
| 23 | If we offer this kind of text to children , and if the gulf between the two languages is to be bridged , then we must not play down the magnitude of the learning task which children face . |
| 24 | And said , oh , let's go and find a cup of coffee but , have a bit of a walk and walk down to conference but we 'll not walk down the prom |
| 25 | Sadly , it was inevitable that we could not keep up the pace against Twitchit Albion , especially with so many of our squad approaching the twilight of their careers . |
| 26 | Secondly , the Government have evaded parliamentary questions by placing the Benefits Agency and other agencies beyond our reach : we could not find out the answers without going through ever more tortuous procedures . |
| 27 | We need not take up the argument here : let us , instead , turn to the more interesting subject of the explanations offered by the Ndembu themselves for certain key symbolic motifs . |
| 28 | We will not give up the US customer base to anyone unless it 's done in a partnership . |
| 29 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 30 | But as the 5' ends of these transcripts have not been mapped , we can not rule out the possibility that transcription is initiated from a single site and that the variability is generated through differential splicing alone . |