Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [pron] any [det] " in BNC.

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1 And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more .
2 She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do .
3 He knew that he still whistled sometimes , but the bogeyman could not scare him any more .
4 I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked .
5 That she would you know throw him out so that she could just could n't tolerate him any more .
6 Eventually they were changing it around almost every hour until the Headmaster could n't stand it any more .
7 Eventually , I could n't stand it any more .
8 ‘ I 've dropped out — I could n't stand it any more . ’
9 Eventually Angalo could n't stand it any more .
10 Finally , they could n't stand it any more .
11 Lewis could n't stand it any more and ran out to a flatter legbreak from Mushtaq , the nimble Latif completing the stumping .
12 He hit me a lot , but I suffered it till I could n't stand it any more .
13 She could n't stand it any more .
14 ‘ I just could n't stand it any more back in Bes Pelargic , ’ Twoflower went on blithely , ‘ sitting at a desk all day , just adding up columns of figures , just a pension to look forward to at the end of it … where 's the romance in that ?
15 ‘ I could n't stand it any more — hearing him howl , I mean .
16 age of six months that they could n't handle me any more .
17 I just could n't handle it any more .
18 It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more .
19 ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’
20 She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more
21 But that 's it , on a good day we could give you ten only , and we could n't give you any more .
22 Léonie could n't watch them any more , she was being pulled on to the narrow track between the trees .
23 ‘ He could n't do it any more . ’
24 it was being reorganized and the lady who did it could n't do it any more and would one of us like to take the
25 I just could n't bear it any more .
26 Then raging darkness overwhelmed her and she was being smashed , pounded to pieces , and it would be better when she died properly and could n't feel it any more .
27 And yet , despising her , Luke could n't resist her any more than she could him — but she alone had love to justify the weakness .
28 Over the years , Anne had put up with an awful lot from me and she had now finally decided she could n't take it any more .
29 I 'd had enough ; I could n't take it any more .
30 Mrs Cann , 25 , who quit her job at the Unilift forklift company in Rumney , Cardiff , after two years , said : ‘ I could n't take it any more .
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