Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must not forget to say something to the whole school about her . ’ |
| 2 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 3 | King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " . |
| 4 | If you want a Rolls Royce , you should n't expect to buy it at Volkswagen prices . ’ |
| 5 | You may not need to do it in Scotland as well to the in England . |
| 6 | Remember that the vendor may not wish to have you around the house at all , so try to agree a mutually convenient time , starting at , say , 9am or 2pm , which will allow at least three daylight hours for the survey . |
| 7 | But after he had left them Rain wondered whether Shildon might not want to see her about his MacQuillan inquiry , a matter other events had put out of her mind . |
| 8 | Not doubling it , not trebling it , but to improve it by something like five or ten percent , and then the next time we go to a sales conference , you 'll be the ones winning the prizes , instead of the people who 've to be winning the prizes , because you 'll not have to improve it by much to win the prizes do you ? |
| 9 | Just as the poor could not expect to get something for nothing , so the rich did not expect to get nothing for something . |
| 10 | He could not continue to look her in the face . |
| 11 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |
| 12 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 13 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 14 | She could n't hope to achieve anything by exploding in his face all the time . |
| 15 | Maybe someone bold enough to improvise like that would even take the risk of getting himself really knocked out and dropped in the water , knowing I could n't fail to find him in a few minutes . ’ |
| 16 | You could n't fail to find one on North Ronaldsay . |
| 17 | But it was such perfect weather that if they could not get a fox away , even the most incompetent hunt in England could n't fail to make something of it . |
| 18 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
| 19 | ‘ And the ridiculous thing was , of course , that I could n't bear to tell her about Lalage and Arthur . |
| 20 | Or , like he , if the little girl 's riding him , he always goes with her then as well , but even if the girl 's not on him , he takes him for a walk like a big dog so I mean , they 're lovely people , you could n't wish to have him with nicer people , erm , you know they are , they really are nice |
| 21 | She recognised it , but could n't seem to do anything about it . |
| 22 | The house was so run down that even Anna could n't afford to do anything about it and she never liked it much . |
| 23 | I could n't leave her there with Hubert and I could n't afford to take her with me . ’ |
| 24 | So we thought , ‘ We 'll get the National Trust to take it , ’ and we were flabbergasted when we found out that the Trust could n't afford to take it without an endowment . |
| 25 | Elinor 's first astonished impression was that Matron Braddock looked like a female impersonator — a sergeant-major in drag : she could n't wait to describe her to Buzz . |
| 26 | TWO DAYS LATER , Simon Miles could n't wait to get me behind a wheel . |
| 27 | I could n't wait to tell him on Monday . |
| 28 | ‘ You need n't bother to introduce me to Fräulein Hubert . |
| 29 | But to meet two gentlemen on the road — we would not hope to meet them off it . |
| 30 | I was now twenty metres up in the air , and I desperately hoped he would not decide to throw me to the ground . |