Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 More significantly , only a fifth believe lawyers should not involve themselves in the general running of other people 's businesses and just three per cent that they are currently too aggressive in selling their services .
2 But excuse me , my grandmother , I must n't keep her in the cold . ’
3 You must n't put them in the front !
4 No , I should n't put them in the garage they 'll get damp there .
5 You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs .
6 well they may just put it , a photograph of it in their offices , they may not put it in the paper
7 ‘ I 'll not have one in the house , ’ she had said , ‘ we 've a larder have n't we ? ’
8 She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved .
9 England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn .
10 She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however .
11 That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses .
12 Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government .
13 But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth .
14 A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air .
15 A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic .
16 A proliferation of pentecostal and evangelical sects , and the success of the Salvation Army ( founded in 1878 ) seemed to show that though the masses could still be moved by religious fervour , they could not find it in the established churches .
17 But Ford could not get one in the new cap ! !
18 I could not look him in the eyes .
19 The fact that the Superintendent could not look her in the eye was not lost on Kate .
20 My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there !
21 She could n't decipher it in the pitch black .
22 So , they could n't do anything in the meantime .
23 Hick , speaking as the England squad completed its pre-Indian tour preparations at Lilleshall yesterday , added : ‘ I wanted to know why my form in the one-day internationals was good , while I could n't do it in the Tests .
24 I could n't kick him in the teeth after three years of good work and live with myself .
25 Yet she could n't lose herself in the story ; the movements of Luke 's hand as he made lightning sketches , the lazy , sinuous stretching of his legs as he shifted his position impinged upon her concentration , and she found herself reading the same page over and over .
26 And when I er went to go on me own er I still wanted to keep in the union and I went down the Locksmiths ' union , which was in the market place , and they said they er we could n't , we could n't have you in the union if you go on your own erm there 's another denomination or something , was something that you 'd have to join or something like that and be on your own .
27 I could n't point you in the right direction immediately you 'd have to sort of
28 Well you could n't put them in the car could you ?
29 I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror .
30 Someone around her — she could n't see who in the dark forest of heads and frame-bags — was talking a different language .
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