Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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1 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
2 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
3 | I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue . |
4 | " You should n't do it at all . " |
5 | You should n't do it at . |
6 | Belinda Hazel , 31 , said : ‘ Police should n't chase them at such speeds — then it would n't happen . ’ |
7 | ‘ You sound as though disasters on the other side of the world should n't concern us at all , ’ said Scarlet . |
8 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
9 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |
10 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
11 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
12 | I ca n't tell you that this keyboard is the best you 'll ever buy , because its feel may not suit you at all , but if you take that and the monitor aside , and specify totally different units that do suit you , then the system box wo n't let you down . |
13 | ‘ Yes , a pattern , of course we may not find it at once — ’ |
14 | It does , it might not seem it at this moment in time , but eventually you will understand everything that 's in there , and what it means to you , yes ? |
15 | ‘ They 'll not like it at home . |
16 | Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside . |
17 | If she could not consume them at least she could hold them . |
18 | However , she could not avoid it at The Tamarisks , for although Fru Møller offered a generous choice of hors d'œuvres and puddings she did not provide a choice of main course and Elisabeth would not have dreamt of placing herself at a disadvantage by drawing attention to her disability and pleading for something easier than steak to swallow . |
19 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
20 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
21 | Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment . |
22 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
23 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
24 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
25 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
26 | Often they could not find them at all . |
27 | My parents had died when I was a baby , so I could not remember them at all , but quite often I used to visit the churchyard , about a mile from the village , to look at their names on their gravestones . |
28 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
29 | But I could n't leave it at that . |
30 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |