Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Leslie Weatherhead wrote , in Prescription for Anxiety , ‘ Deadness of feeling , even if we think we do not love anybody , not even God , must not make us worry . |
| 2 | You must not let them level down the University , but rather use your position to level them up . ’ |
| 3 | We must not let them forget where the Party came from . |
| 4 | These periods of reflection and decision-making are important , but we must not let them get out of hand . |
| 5 | And now although her whole body cried out for fulfilment and she longed for Joss Barnet to complete what he had surely come to do , she knew that she must not let it happen . |
| 6 | The argument about rhythm should not make us forget the very important difference in English between strong and weak syllables ; some languages do not have such a noticeable difference ( which may , perhaps , explain the subjective impression of ‘ syllable-timing ’ ) , and for native speakers of such languages learning English it can be helpful to practise repeating strongly rhythmical utterances since this forces the speaker to concentrate on making unstressed syllables weak . |
| 7 | Everyone should demand if the security guards are not functioning their duty we should not let them go by so |
| 8 | I should not let them linger , wasting time , wasting money , until the spring brings them fresh hope . |
| 9 | We may not let you pass . |
| 10 | We may not let you pass . |
| 11 | The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn . |
| 12 | Erm reference has been made er a couple of times to the appendix which I attached to my submission , that 's the map and the schedule of strategic constraints , I feel I ought not to let it pass without some comment . |
| 13 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 14 | As I think he might not let me have my half-hour in midmorning if he let me go out earlier , I do n't insist . ) |
| 15 | I 'll not let them see me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll not let you go until you promise to let me see you . ’ |
| 17 | I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’ |
| 18 | to the door , he 'll not let you touch him . |
| 19 | There was a box of matches in his top pocket , but when he got them out his hands were so wet that he could not make them strike . |
| 20 | ( 155 ) … and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable . |
| 21 | I was desperate enough to consider rushing round the table pretending to be Pumblechook 's carriage , but I could not make myself do it , and just stood there helplessly . |
| 22 | His plan to escape was so long in the making and the lesson for us must lie in the reason why , when the time came , he could not make it work . |
| 23 | She had to be one of the fastest production boats in the islands ; her twin big-block engines could hurl the three-ton wedge-shaped hull at over eighty miles an hour , and it worried neither McIllvanney nor Bellybutton that at such a speed a man could not hear himself scream and that even the smallest wave shook the bones right out of their flesh . |
| 24 | He threw a rock down it but you could not hear it strike the bottom … . |
| 25 | Sh that th the people were willing to make promises that they did not wish to keep that they would not keep and I in all sincerity could not let them do that , and they went away extremely hurt and that particular situation unfortunately became extremely tragic later on . |
| 26 | They looked just like those horrible Yahoos , and at first I could not let them touch me or come near me . |
| 27 | She could not let him throw last night in her face . |
| 28 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
| 29 | No matter what it cost her , she could not let him leave without trying to speak to him . |
| 30 | Yet I could not let him go : his love was too precious to me , and I knew I would never find its like again . |