Example sentences of "she [modal v] not [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 2 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 3 | At first he sat looking at his feet , and she could not think of a thing to say . |
| 4 | Until she met Rainald she could not think of a future , with or without fitzAlan . |
| 5 | She could not hold in a corner of her mind the rational knowledge that this was purely childish . |
| 6 | But they lacked conviction , because she could not believe in a God who answered prayers . |
| 7 | In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot . |
| 8 | Sonia Gandhi , the widow of the assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , confirmed on Oct. 12 that she would not stand as a candidate in a by-election scheduled for Nov. 16 in her late husband 's Amethi constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh . |
| 9 | With Aquino adamant that she would not stand for a second term , the jostling for position amongst those ambitious to succeed her intensified in late 1990 and early 1991 . |
| 10 | The firm message from Whitehall last night was that Mrs Thatcher was not going to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Kuala Lumpur next week to propose a reduction in sanctions , although she would not agree to an increase in the measures already in place . |
| 11 | The IDA once again flew in another independent medical expert , Dr Muriel Newhouse of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , who assured the planning inquiry that she would not object to an asbestos dump , such as the one proposed , being sited ‘ at the bottom of her garden ’ . |
| 12 | If she is sure that she would not qualify for a supplementary pension and wishes to apply for a rent rebate or allowance , an application form , and the information leaflet There 's Money off your Rent , can be obtained from the local authority Housing Department . |