Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if a great void had opened and I could not at first believe that there would be no more visits to the balere with him . |
| 2 | There was some difference that she could not at first put her finger on , and then at last it came to her ; it was she who had said ‘ We shall go ’ and their presence in the forest had flowed from that . |
| 3 | When Helen arrived at the hall in which the choir concert was to be held she could not at first see Giles Carnaby . |
| 4 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 5 | Though what it was that she knew , she could not at that moment have said . |
| 6 | As she approaches it , she can not at first see Alix , but she believes that Alix will be there , and indeed momently she is : they converge , Esther from the west , Alix from the south , and moderate their pace ( Esther accelerating slightly , Alix marginally slowing down ) so that they meet upon the very corner itself . |
| 7 | They are taking responsibility , either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government , but to pretend that somehow we can not at all , some of the cuts that are made , that the f the other , does not convince us , I 'm sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today . |
| 8 | But they could not at this point publicly repudiate him . |
| 9 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 10 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 11 | He could not at that stage hope to fulfil this role himself . |
| 12 | Moreover , he had written it on pages that he could not at this moment tear up into big pieces and then into smaller pieces . |
| 13 | 10.5 Each Party undertakes to each of the other Parties in respect of results generated by it that it will not at any time make any publication or disclosure that would prejudice the rights of any of the other Parties in making IPR applications except for publication or disclosure : |
| 14 | Therefore it can not at any stage , whether as embryo or fetus , be regarded as part of its mother 's body . |