Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salutations 0 Mighty Apollo ! glad your music tour went down well , playing the fiddle standing on your head while drinking a glass of water is very clever , none but a Nero could do it , but you really should not have set fire to the auditorium as an encore . |
| 2 | ‘ But did it not occur to that massive conceit of yours that I might not want to make love to you ? ’ |
| 3 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 4 | Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today . |
| 5 | Had we followed the advice of our so-called revolutionary counsellors , this substantial move toward a political revolution would not have taken place to anything like the extent shown by the figures . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most controversial question concerning English intonation is what its function is ; pedagogically speaking , this is a very important question , since one would not wish to devote time to teaching something without knowing what its value was likely to be . |
| 7 | The episode was better forgotten , he thought ; he would not risk exposing Grégoire to Louise 's unkindness again . |
| 8 | ( c ) The defence of ex turpi causa would not apply having regard to the changing public opinion of suicide . |
| 9 | His lips would n't move to give voice to the words . |
| 10 | I would n't care to offer advice to gamblers , because I 'm sure that people who bet on horses do things other than purely look at the odds the horse if offered at . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't wait to make love to you while you 're wearing nothing but that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't wait to make love to you … |
| 13 | I ca n't afford to give way to my emotions . |
| 14 | At the same time , the purchaser will not wish to return cash to the vendor that he has not yet collected from debtors , nor will the purchaser be willing to use its own funds to satisfy creditors on behalf of the vendor . |
| 15 | A rapid review such as this of theories of knowledge and the curriculum can not hope to do justice to the various concepts and models , and risks inducing a kind of conceptual vertigo . |