Example sentences of "she [modal v] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might not now think of this as the action of a deflated bully , but the symptoms are classic . |
| 2 | There was one resignation from the committee in June , Elise felt she could not longer continue as publicity officer and we asked Rosetta to step into that office . |
| 3 | ‘ She could not even stand by herself yet she has has been the victim of a most brutal assault in her own bed . |
| 4 | She found that she could not even blink under the harsh glare . |
| 5 | Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II . |
| 6 | She meant , after ten minutes ' solemn consideration , to write that she was extremely sorry , and entirely responsible for the change of plan , but she could not now sit for him . |
| 7 | I say if she thought till she was tired , she could not possibly think of any wrong … . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure we could let you out for that , McAllister , ’ Dr Neil had said , only for Sally-Anne to murmur modestly that since she was already well treated for time off she could not possibly ask for more . |
| 9 | But , in spite of the genuine excitement that possessed her , she could not quite banish from her mind a picture of that greetings card , signed ‘ From your dearest Nina ’ , that stood propped in one corner of Vass 's desk . |
| 10 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 11 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 12 | She could n't even eat with people she did n't like , and as for sleeping with anyone — unless she was wildly in love or pissed out of her mind she could n't do it . |
| 13 | If he wanted unglamorous , he should see what she looked like in surgical greens after about twelve hours in the OR , though , of course , she could n't even hint at that . |
| 14 | What had all this got to do with the cruel terrors of Spiderglass that kept Mars-U as a garden of torture ( she could n't even think of the garden-master ; somehow he just kind of disappeared from her mind ) so it could pluck poor students into its web of inhumanity ? |
| 15 | Well , she could n't even complain about that — he 'd been upfront about his intentions , had never pretended to feel anything he did n't . |
| 16 | She could n't even glance at him without feeling a little strange , and he never had any pleasant look on his face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She could n't even write to her , lest her letters be opened by that two-faced ugly bitch of a matron . |
| 19 | He might be amazingly good to look at , he might be brilliant company , he might possibly be an amazing lover , though she could n't truthfully testify to that in depth , but jokes and … and sex were n't everything . |
| 20 | It looked like a dull day outside but she could n't just sit in her room doing nothing . |
| 21 | Xanthe , however , alarmed by the departure of her new-found friend , was practically clinging to Mrs Young and with an echo of the earlier hysteria was saying that she could n't possibly sleep in the private car , she would have nightmares , she would be too scared to stay , she was sure whoever had uncoupled the car before would do it again in the middle of the night , and they would all be killed when the Canadian crashed into them , because the Canadian was still there behind us , was n't it , was n't it ? |
| 22 | At last she had managed to persuade Miss Taylor that she could n't possibly stay for lunch , that she and Fen planned to picnic while he worked . |
| 23 | And in this last day , she must have been camping about , I do n't know how , but somehow she was traversing I she probably did n't she was using the living room as a store , I could only think that , she could n't possibly live in it . |
| 24 | One died recently , but she could n't ever come to terms with the fact that her house had been burgled , and that the er , that some of her most valued contents had been taken . |
| 25 | ‘ She would n't even speak to her when I first rang your home . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , I would n't have got all that much , but she would n't even agree to that , greedy cow . ’ |
| 27 | She would n't even agree to an engagement . |
| 28 | She would n't normally lie like that would she ? |
| 29 | Yeah , she ca n't obviously talk to her husband about it because George is her ex-husband and he |
| 30 | And then we 'll have to deal with that other one and er and , and resolve that one way or the other and make , make sure we 've done that reasonably reasonably quickly , either g sending her back to new business or er trying to find another position for her if she ca n't actually cope with that . |