Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a month of storage in a tank or lagoon , the slurry should be safe enough for spreading — although cattle should not graze on it for a month . |
| 2 | I do n't see why Mr. Morris should n't stick at it for a week or two . ’ |
| 3 | Elizabeth was also asked if she would like to make a list of what she does not like about community living but could not think of anything for the moment . |
| 4 | Nails concentrated hard and found the stride about once in every two circles , but could not keep with it for more than two or three strides before he lost his balance and came down while Midnight was coming up . |
| 5 | John could not concentrate on anything for very long but we were unsure just how long he typically managed . |
| 6 | To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 7 | Others could not get to him for half an hour . |
| 8 | You are in Rivendell , and you need not worry about anything for the present . ' ’ |
| 9 | By the time she reached Venice , they had had enough : ‘ they would not go with her for a hundred pound ’ , and left her on her own . |
| 10 | In return for the unions ' consent formally to acknowledge managements ' prerogatives of decision-making at plant level , employers would recognise the right of workers to join unions and would not discriminate against them for doing so . |
| 11 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 12 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 13 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 14 | I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if you had serious money problems you would n't come to me for help , would you ? ’ |
| 16 | Yes , if the sun were to go out now we would n't know about it for eight minutes . |
| 17 | She ca n't wait for me for years and years . |
| 18 | As this is n't actually a direct film licence I wo n't dwell on it for too long ; just long enough to warn you that it 's a particularly poor platform product , with the only good feature being that the Amiga version was a lot worse . |
| 19 | She can not speak to anyone for fear you will fight them . |
| 20 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |