Example sentences of "he [modal v] not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So now he could n't even bear to be with her . |
| 2 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 3 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |
| 4 | He would not even speak to her . |
| 5 | ‘ For years he would n't even talk to me . |
| 6 | Oh he would n't even go out with Sherry yet , and like he would n't even talk to her yet and like she 's in the fucking same school er er |
| 7 | Everything was wrong with him — he would n't always come to meetings and when he did he was ‘ difficult ’ . |
| 8 | He writes in that same letter ‘ I ca n't hate anything ’ , and he admits he ca n't even own to ‘ despair ’ . |
| 9 | Like professional scientists , he is very cautious about rejecting an explanation that accounts for what he knows , and he will not simply submit to authority . |
| 10 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 11 | With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’ |
| 12 | However , the position may be different if the party seeking to enforce the terms knows that the other has never had actual knowledge of them , since he can not then claim to reasonably believe that the other was agreeing to the terms . |
| 13 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |