Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At £26 or so a square yard , Cottage Collection may not leave you with a lot to spend on lavish celebrations . |
| 2 | AT £26 OR SO A SQUARE YARD , COTTAGE COLLECTION MAY NOT LEAVE YOU WITH A LOT TO SPEND ON LAVISH CELEBRATIONS . |
| 3 | This too is research , even though we may not honour it with the name . |
| 4 | The next logical step was to present the bream with a small hook and bait which would be more likely to be right inside their lips when they began to carry it off , but to still retain the heaviness so that they could not manage it with a mere suck . |
| 5 | He could not reconcile it with the images he had preserved . |
| 6 | And while nobody wanted precisely to abandon the Fidchell which everybody enjoyed so much , there was really no reason why they could not play it with the Gnomes tonight and save Fenella for tomorrow , or even the day after . |
| 7 | Could n't do it with a black one . |
| 8 | Well I could n't see you with no money . |
| 9 | left and I cut it up this morning before you got up and I could n't cut it with the scissors ! |
| 10 | If we were to refer to the light , we would not associate it with an individual object . |
| 11 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ If Birkenhead stood alone , ’ Baldwin self-righteously pronounced , ‘ I would not touch him with a barge-pole . ’ |
| 13 | She would not touch him with a bargepole , she said , and never would have done . |
| 14 | Well , Karen , I would n't rape you with a ten-foot pole . |
| 15 | Will your coat need cleaning ? ’ she asked anxiously , hoping he would n't land her with the bill . |
| 16 | I would n't trust him with a play like Amadeus , playing a part like Salieri , if I did n't have belief in his talent . |
| 17 | I would n't trust him with the keys . |
| 18 | And they would n't touch her with a barge pole cos it 's all plastic and all fake and people would just take the piss . |
| 19 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 20 | ‘ Section D. I 'm afraid ‘ C ’ would n't touch him with a bargepole . |
| 21 | Derry claims that the band much prefer English women to American women because most English women would n't touch them with a bargepole and therefore are ‘ more of a challenge ’ . |
| 22 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 23 | Those who have been before would n't touch it with a bargepole and those of more tender years are almost certain to have been warned off anyway . |
| 24 | to think I wish he 'd come back I get back to how life was cos I would n't touch it with a barge pole . |
| 25 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 26 | ‘ Relax — I would n't touch you with a barge-pole ’ she told him scornfully . |
| 27 | But it 's that side away from the river , you know , I I ca n't link it with the river . |
| 28 | You ca n't explain it with the funny little rules that we have for how your potential and different things vary in your circuit . |
| 29 | I 'm not like some men who ca n't do it with a woman unless they feel emotionally involved with her . |
| 30 | Because algebra is letters , and if you have got er something which is you need a root of it or , you can do it with a number , you ca n't do it with a letter . |