Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Condensation must not drip onto them . |
2 | Determinedly , however , Fabia decided she must not think about it . |
3 | Your voice and your use of language are parts of your personality but you must not think of them as something fixed — ‘ something you are born with ’ . |
4 | ‘ You must not think of it like that , dear , ’ Stevie told her gently . |
5 | The longing for home embodies the feeling of loss not of a place , but of time , and , if I understand your teaching aright , we must not cling to it , but turn outward to the real world . |
6 | BELVILLE : If I be set upon a wrong thing you must not dispute with me but do it and expostulate afterwards . |
7 | He must not sneak over them in a halfhearted way nor must he be allowed to flatten over them . |
8 | ‘ You must not worry about me , ’ she said quickly , ‘ you are not responsible for me , mind , and I will not be beholden . ’ |
9 | Testifying two years later , George thought that meant : ‘ You wo n't tell the CIA ; they must not know about it . ’ |
10 | We can assume it in exactly the form stated above or we can relax it to the extent of saying that any influence of A upon B must not propagate between them faster than the velocity of light . |
11 | Anna decided that she must not profit by it in any way and consulted Constanza — she always did : You are my chief heir and it will affect you — Constanza told her to go ahead . |
12 | He had to swear to obey the rules while diligently instructing the children and any others who may come to him ‘ in grammar and other human doctrine ’ , but must not read to them ‘ any corrupt or reprobate books ’ . |
13 | He must not look at her until she told him to do so . |
14 | You must not look at it . |
15 | ‘ Then you , also , must be given that pleasure , for I should not care for you to miss an instant of any pain , Wolfprince . ’ |
16 | After a month of storage in a tank or lagoon , the slurry should be safe enough for spreading — although cattle should not graze on it for a month . |
17 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
18 | It was of vital importance that she should not think of him . |
19 | It may live beyond their lives and should not suffer from them . ’ |
20 | It remains possible that a few patients are susceptible to a change in insulin species , and obviously patients who are unhappy with human insulin should not remain on it . |
21 | The BBC should not bother with them , the perspective is always F****** appalling . |
22 | I should not yield to theirs unless I see its point and come to agree with them . |
23 | ‘ You should not come to us again . ’ |
24 | Miss Andrews did not invite me to order that the sum should be paid out to Crossman Block on terms that they should not part with it without a further order of the court ; in such an event she accepted that it would be better that the sum should remain in court . |
25 | In smaller tanks avoid the larger species , such as Labeotropheus fuelleborni , or Petrotilapia , but this should not apply to you , as your tank is a good size . |
26 | Und the money , Alice — I should not say to you this — it walks away from him … ’ |
27 | But this should not obscure from us the fact that Judaism resisted stoutly the prudery that stultified sexuality throughout the West , and always retained a high and honoured place for bodily functioning and its pleasures — as becomes indeed , a gift from God : ‘ Man and woman are one body and one soul , ( oneness reasserted , as ever ) , and it is this powerful union which it projects and enhances . |
28 | They exist , and society should not discriminate against them ... |
29 | ‘ Mrs Peterson says I must n't talk to thee . ’ |
30 | He must n't think of him as guilty . |