Example sentences of "[modal v] not [adv] [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor must not only disclose to you any commission over £10 that he or she receives but must also account to you for it unless you have agreed that he or she should keep it . |
| 2 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 3 | If you , the reader , are not of a scientific bent , then they may not much appeal to you and you may wish to gloss over them . |
| 4 | But knowledge of the English burnings was widespread , and Scottish Protestants could not be sure that something similar might not now happen to them . |
| 5 | Neither of these stations are any use to me if my car is out of action , however , because I could not possibly walk to them . |
| 6 | And I could n't even talk to you about them . |
| 7 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 8 | She could n't even write to her , lest her letters be opened by that two-faced ugly bitch of a matron . |
| 9 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 10 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 11 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 12 | Possibly because we do n't take an ‘ oh , that could n't possibly happen to me ’ attitude to the former . |
| 13 | He spoke noncommittally , and Lydia understood that there were things of which Beuno would not yet speak to her . |
| 14 | He would not even speak to her . |
| 15 | Also , Mrs Valerie Riches will speak on the content of many of the sex-education programmes used in British schools , which in practice offer only a moral sexual instruction , and subject the young to ideas which would not normally occur to them . |
| 16 | Oh he would n't even go out with Sherry yet , and like he would n't even talk to her yet and like she 's in the fucking same school er er |
| 17 | ‘ For years he would n't even talk to me . |
| 18 | ‘ She would n't even speak to her when I first rang your home . ’ |
| 19 | He did his best but Bumface would n't even speak to me . |
| 20 | I would n't really talk to them anyway , but sometimes you needed to talk to somebody , or to sort something out . |
| 21 | But Dot had thought it would n't ever happen to their baby . |
| 22 | So I would n't necessarily talk to them about conditions in the flats . |
| 23 | So plainly that would n't necessarily apply to us but the the except the exception would be sitting there in policy and I I think it 's a it 's something we we would find very difficult er to live with . |
| 24 | Cos you ca n't just write to someone , you have to want to write to them really . |
| 25 | Well the tom tiddlers of British political life I suppose write their memoirs for a couple of reasons because they ca n't ever admit to themselves they are tom tiddlers . |
| 26 | Yeah , she ca n't obviously talk to her husband about it because George is her ex-husband and he |
| 27 | stop worrying about you know , losing any try and put a couple of pounds on if you ca n't then come to us and we 'll find out what 's wrong |
| 28 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 29 | Although he was convinced that there was conclusive evidence that Japanese intelligence organizations were behind the Vietminh and their revolt , he also said that throughout their handling of the situation the French appeared to lack every vestige of imagination but , ‘ provided the French are prepared to deal with the Annamites as human beings and not as chattels for exploitation as in the past , there is every reason to believe that the leading Annamites will not only listen to them , but will help them … ’ |
| 30 | And God will not only listen to our insignificant prayers , but has given us his Spirit to enable us to pray and to share with us in that most demanding task . |