Example sentences of "he [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is that a person who acts as a representative of another is in a conflict of interest situation if , either at the time when he accepts appointment or subsequently while he acts as a representative , there is a material interest of his own or of a third person for whom he also acts , and the pursuit or protection of that interest would create a substantial risk that he may not act in the best way to pursue or protect the interest of the person he represents . |
| 2 | Lucien felt he should not answer in the affirmative . |
| 3 | The solicitor contacted by the first defendant and Mr. Morgan for the purposes of the new will , Mr. Burgess , concluded that the deceased lacked testamentary competence and that he should not proceed in the matter . |
| 4 | He used it whereever he could and in some places where he should n't like in the rainwater system . |
| 5 | There comes a time in a nome 's life when he should n't crawl around the inside of terrible flying machines ! ’ |
| 6 | Oh , he should n't allowed on the road should he ? |
| 7 | A process so hedged about with medical mystery and old wives ' tales that no man was allowed to share in it now became an experience he must not miss for the world . |
| 8 | Most of all , he must not look at the food on his plate . |
| 9 | She had to accept the fact that he might not return to the convent and , sad though it made her , she would often lay her cheek against the rough heather and whisper his name . |
| 10 | Now he knew he could n't manage without a butler . |
| 11 | In other words , he could n't benefit from the property or the dividends on the shares , or any part of the gift . ’ |
| 12 | He was holding the gun out like a target-shooter , everything wrong , and he did n't speak because he could n't think of a thing to say . |
| 13 | But he got frustrated because , although he was playing well , he could n't compete with the younger players . |
| 14 | He could n't go on the corkscrew he could n't go up on the ship he could n't go on anything . |
| 15 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 16 | At times , he could n't drink in the same bar as his new white team-mates but there were no barriers to him on the cricket field . |
| 17 | He could n't warm to the notion of a Gooseneck-Sunil love affair : the potential for pain seemed too great . |
| 18 | A spokesman for Tewkesbury Council said he could n't comment on the parents plans to sue . |
| 19 | Dalgliesh felt impatient for the arrival of the forensic biologist , although he knew he could n't hope for the answer , not yet . |
| 20 | Once in New York he could n't disappear into the city either . |
| 21 | Stefan knew he could n't cope with the traumas of continuing where they had left off . |
| 22 | If it was some horrible misunderstanding , he could n't talk to the girl to try to clear it up ; instead , he had to be kept in prison to prevent any possibility of contact . |
| 23 | Obviously he could n't talk to the police , and it would suit his book better if Vecchi was caught by someone outside his own organisation . |
| 24 | He could n't relax for an instant . |
| 25 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 26 | He could n't turn in the narrow road here because of the car parked opposite . |
| 27 | For a moment he could n't see through the train of bubbles left by the spear , which hit the fish dead centre and an inch behind the jaw hinge . |
| 28 | He could n't see round the next bend , he must record , tapes were periscopes , his only chance , and the slow ink stolen and the wheels turning , and everything remembered , everything proved , he was whispering now , ‘ Why five , ’ he was whispering , ‘ is n't one enough ? ’ and a voice came back , a woman 's , Sharon 's , ‘ One what ? ’ |
| 29 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 30 | Yet he , the archer , might have gone back there to check again after all and if he had he would know I was alive , but he would never find me where I was now , deep in impenetrable shadow along a path he could n't follow in the dark . |