Example sentences of "[modal v] not [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ True , we must not put them in more danger than is needful . |
| 2 | That is the one thing that really matters in the House and we must not undermine it in our negotiations . |
| 3 | When I came home late after working overtime they 'd say , ‘ she is not a good woman we must not keep her in our house . ’ |
| 4 | This should not lead us in turn , however , to ignore the impact of industrialisation or more generally proletarianisation on sexual mores . |
| 5 | We should not advise him in what circumstances the claim would be covered under the policy . |
| 6 | At the very least your notes should not discourage you in this aim . |
| 7 | Another reason that we should be against the Labour party is that we should not put them in a position to buck the trend . |
| 8 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 9 | HE MAY not say it in public , but George Graham has a clear message this morning for Ian Wright : ‘ I can always get another forward but see what trouble you 'll have leaning backwards on a broken career ’ . |
| 10 | well they may just put it , a photograph of it in their offices , they may not put it in the paper |
| 11 | So let's not keep you in suspense and join Katie prior to her departure from a surprising location for international flight . |
| 12 | She started to count how many people , who might not confess it in simple language , were relieved MacQuillan had gone . |
| 13 | Next time you might not find me in such a good temper . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll not ask you in there with the table because there was n't enough room . |
| 15 | She endured his lovemaking , sometimes she even enjoyed it , but for the greater part she could not love him in the way he truly deserved . |
| 16 | Their host , the Rev Kenneth MacAulay , great-uncle of Thomas Babington of that name , had sent a letter explaining that he could not meet them in Nairn : his priestly duties detained him in Cawdor — to which Boswell adds a footnote . |
| 17 | England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn . |
| 18 | She could not link him in her mind with her mother at all , though the two of them had once shared a mother themselves . |
| 19 | He had learnt something valuable , though he still could not isolate it in his mind . |
| 20 | She could not avoid her in the nurses ' home dining-room that night , however . |
| 21 | I could not tell her — I could not hurt her in this way . |
| 22 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 23 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
| 24 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 25 | They could not use it in real life … |
| 26 | That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses . |
| 27 | Elsewhere in his speech Gladstone specifically referred to the long runs of periodicals in the library as being of interest to him as he could not keep them in his own library . |
| 28 | But any rational analysis of the outcome of the Democratic primaries makes it clear that Jackson 's racial identity did not and could not defeat him in the voting booth . |
| 29 | She could not say it in front of him , nor he in front of her , even though it is probable that he too would prefer to try living the next life differently , without Agnes . |
| 30 | Yet if he , just a man , could not find it in his heart to condemn his brother or the boy who had used his brother 's weaknesses to lure him to his death , how could this God of love of his childhood destroy so savagely and so arbitrarily ? |