Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] n't [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he was so tense in her presence that he-could n't speak at all . |
| 2 | A whole lot of alibis that would n't wash at all . ’ |
| 3 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 4 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 5 | I 'll bet it is , Leith thought , but could n't understand at all why she should all at once feel something that felt mightily like jealousy , at the sudden mental picture of a stream of blondes passing through his flat . |