Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [adv] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 2 | What she was thinking was that , unlike her memory block with Arnie , she could n't imagine ever forgetting the first time she 'd laid eyes on Guido . |
| 3 | and , and you know you could n't get a lot of money , although of course nationally , the rates of pay were governed nationally , they were going up and up and up and there was no way that we could keep pace , we could n't keep on increasing the tuppeny fare . |
| 4 | However , one has to bear in mind that at the last meeting of the West Essex Health Authority erm they are saying that they ca n't carry on treating the same amount of people erm , because they 're overspend already this year and that they will not treat these er , extra contractual referrals without prior funding being approved and that was co , that was actually stated at the meeting last week . |
| 5 | You ca n't go on wearing the willow forever . ’ |
| 6 | " It 's not just because of us and because I ca n't go on tricking the Sisters . |
| 7 | They ca n't go on making the same widget day after day . |
| 8 | Because you ca n't live without doing the proper thing ? |
| 9 | Knighton , whose bid to take over Manchester United failed in a blaze of publicity three years ago , said : ‘ Carlisle United will not survive without a development of some kind and I will not stay here subsidising the club . ’ |
| 10 | Stephen can not stand alone facing the task and the world , quietly , unassumingly , Davin has appeared behind him . |
| 11 | The implications of this are increased unemployment , since the government can not continue indefinitely expanding the non-marketed sector . |
| 12 | I also feel that this country can not go on permitting the unrestricted sale of looted antiquities from abroad . |