Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this should not obscure from us the fact that Judaism resisted stoutly the prudery that stultified sexuality throughout the West , and always retained a high and honoured place for bodily functioning and its pleasures — as becomes indeed , a gift from God : ‘ Man and woman are one body and one soul , ( oneness reasserted , as ever ) , and it is this powerful union which it projects and enhances . |
| 2 | Portsmouth and Liverpool drew 1–1 at Highbury , and the replay in Birmingham had to be put back when police said they could not cope with it the day before last week 's General Election . |
| 3 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 4 | I could not disguise from her the gravity of the situation . |
| 5 | Unless it was an ‘ original ’ a document could not carry with it the right to claim delivery of the goods . |
| 6 | I mean if he was hung , drawn and quartered he still could n't pay for it the suffering he 's gon na cause . |
| 7 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 8 | I ca n't describe to you the agony of being told — and then having no means by which to find out … |
| 9 | With a price tag on 3 mill £ Wilko will not place on him the bench — even if he does n't do so well ? |
| 10 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
| 11 | I can not express to you the enchanted effect produced by this Arabian scene of colour as the wind blew aside the great waterfall behind which we stood and hid . |