Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of all , he must not look at the food on his plate . |
| 2 | we should n't look at the box |
| 3 | 160 , and to us in this court , he imagined that the judges must have assumed jurisdiction by virtue of their inherent power to determine who may and who may not plead at the Bar before them . |
| 4 | Fat on a diet of ‘ Robocop ’ and ‘ Rambo ’ , Latin Americans may not jump at the chance to see them . |
| 5 | We 've said well let's not look at the parish organizations , specifically , because those are covering areas that we do n't need to look at . |
| 6 | We 're working at things which the players might not appreciate at the moment but they will in 10 years time when they look back on what they have achieved . |
| 7 | The CNAA , he explained , would take pressure off the University of London , and if other universities were not prepared to enter the field of external degrees ‘ they could not complain at the creation of the new body ’ . |
| 8 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 9 | ‘ I could n't stay at the house … ’ |
| 10 | However , she knew that she could n't stand at the window indefinitely , so she left it to complete the task she had on hand . |
| 11 | oh if it , if it was if it w if it was that one I think , I think there was some dis if , if it 's the thing I 'm thinking of there was some discrepancy , I think it was alright in the s on one occasion there was some stuff which I could n't find at the end |
| 12 | She had a feeling it was in that carpet-bag , but could n't get at the bag . |
| 13 | Lowe could n't know at the time how much both his private life and his work were about to go right . |
| 14 | Jimmy Smith polled ten per cent … surprisingly he was beaten by Steve Coppell … but the top two were way ahead … second big Billy Hamilton the ex United striker … and top by a long way the man who could n't live at the Manor with the Maxwells … |
| 15 | As a result , it seems clear that the prosecutor need not establish at the outset that such was the defendant 's intention or awareness . |
| 16 | For a while , the working title of ‘ Homebrew ’ was ‘ Feminist Slag ’ , to signify that feminism need n't come at the cost of ‘ being able to let your sexuality really express itself ’ . |
| 17 | He would not arrive at the door . |
| 18 | I am interested to see that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) would not balk at the prospect of having to sort out those knotty problems . |
| 19 | Dr Johnson would not look at the bones . |
| 20 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 21 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 22 | Who would n't jump at the chance of spending a free six months in the Southern Hemisphere , flights paid , car provided and all for a few afternoons coaching ? |
| 23 | She said it was premature but she had n't made any , provision for it , and would n't look at the baby . |
| 24 | When using those dramatic frames which require children to prepare and then share small group work ( e.g. the investigation , the pageant , the making of a documentary ) take the opportunity to question or comment on their use of space : " I wonder why the council official would n't look at the interviewer ? " |
| 25 | She ca n't talk at the moment . |
| 26 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 27 | " You 've been lovely and I 'm leading you on but I ca n't deliver at the moment . |
| 28 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 29 | If you ca n't look at the rushes , you come in every day wondering . |
| 30 | And I did n't go , but a chap that I knew from whose name I ca n't remember at the moment , did go and he was killed within about three months of his er arriving in Africa . |