Example sentences of "[modal v] no [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear Constance , I am not suggesting that you should no longer visit me . |
| 2 | An area which is at present not built on , which is open , which has had greenbelt protection since nineteen eighty , which it is now proposed should no longer have it . |
| 3 | He did n't turn his head to look after them and he was so still that even at a short distance they could no longer distinguish him from his surroundings . |
| 4 | Eventually , though , I could no longer manage him at home — he was so weak ; so I arranged for him to go into the residential home , where Miss Prescott and Mrs Whitaker did everything they possibly could to make him happy and comfortable — and succeeded . |
| 5 | Ma could no longer hold her and she ran to the boy she thought of as her oldest brother , clinging to him . |
| 6 | But now , with her fires so stoked that she could no longer contain them , her messages were confused . |
| 7 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 8 | They could no longer pretend they were just hunter and hunted . |
| 9 | Everything hurt unremittingly and I could no longer pretend I could ignore it . |
| 10 | But Charles had a nagging fear that it was n't that , that Michael Banks really was trying , that he did go through the lines time after time in the evenings , but that his mind could no longer retain them . |
| 11 | He kept on looking at it , until the words on the large red seal danced in front of his tired eyes , and he could no longer read them . |
| 12 | Kirov did not seem unduly disappointed that he could no longer help him . |
| 13 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 14 | I knew I could no longer help him , so I left him . |
| 15 | The green paper declared that the growth of road transport in the Community had nearly reached the point where the environment could no longer sustain it . |
| 16 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 17 | After a further period , even he could no longer see it . |
| 18 | Thus subscription prices were shooting up and cutting off thousands of readers who could no longer afford them . |
| 19 | The price of property in the village had risen as people from the towns bought up cottages as second homes and young couples could no longer afford them . |
| 20 | New Zealand farmers lost all subsidies in the mid-1980s — because a government facing tough economic times could no longer afford them . |
| 21 | Ten years of Reagan armament which allowed it to , also bankrupted it ; without the USSR as enemy , not even the United States will permanently keep up this level , and if they wanted to , they could no longer afford it . |
| 22 | Unspoken though they were , the facts of the case were plain , and he could no longer conceal them from himself . |
| 23 | The Barringtons vividly demonstrate that the village as an occupational community declined because the underlying economic base could no longer support it . |
| 24 | Her father could no longer understand her or her behaviour , and Catherine did not realize that his illness made him less patient with her . |
| 25 | The Collector watched this brief engagement in the dazzling circle of crystal but could no longer understand it . |
| 26 | She kept trying to tell herself that he could no longer surprise her , and yet he continued to do just that . |
| 27 | Her bedside book , often reread , was Anthony Trollope 's The Small House at Allington but tonight it could no longer translate her to the reassuring , comfortable , nostalgic world of Barsetshire , to croquet on Mrs Dale 's lawn and dinner at the squire 's table . |
| 28 | After a while , Jay could no longer pick her out against the distant sand , and she lay on the bed , under a sheet , downed the last of her drink , and slept . |
| 29 | Ruth knew she could no more disappoint her than she could snatch a toy from a baby . |
| 30 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |