Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [pron] [vb mod] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | For every pimply , dejected murderer I can give you one who looks like a movie star , for everyone who wo n't talk , one who will gab your ear off . |
| 2 | ON APRIL 21ST , RUN FOR SOMEONE WHO CA N'T . |
| 3 | ON APRIL 21ST , RUN FOR SOMEONE WHO CA N'T . |
| 4 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 5 | For ‘ proposing to carry lemons with us to Sky [ sic ] that he might be sure to have his lemonade ’ , Johnson ticked off Boswell — on two counts : that he , Sam , did not wish to be viewed as someone who could not do without his preferences ; and that it was ‘ very bad manners to carry provisions to any man 's house , as if he could not entertain you . |
| 6 | I would like to hear an opinion for somebody who ca n't afford the twelve hundred to two thousand pound that it takes for surrogacy ? |
| 7 | In addition to her other problems , Kate Adie has achieved the status of someone you ca n't write about without attracting the wrath of the soft-left establishment ( aka your own Sean French and the Independent 's Reggie Nadelson ) . |
| 8 | Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe . |
| 9 | Several times I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of something I could not identify . |
| 10 | It reminded Culley of something he could n't place . |
| 11 | Even so , as she followed the straight line of his back , seeing the way he moved smoothly and economically , the black hair carelessly swept back and curling at the nape of his neck , she felt a brief frisson of something she could not explain . |
| 12 | Upstairs , alone , feeling left out of something she could n't define , she looked through a pile of books left by his door . |
| 13 | She was heart-stoppingly aware of Niall watching her from the doorway , a glimmer of something she could n't fathom in his blue eyes . |
| 14 | Never easy keeping track of something you ca n't even see ! ’ |
| 15 | He lived in Notting Hill Gate , in a house he 'd bought cheaply in the late fifties , which he now seldom left , touched as he was by agoraphobia , or , as he preferred it , ‘ a perfectly rational fear of anyone I ca n't blackmail ’ . |
| 16 | I ca n't think of anything we could n't talk about — money , our jobs , our antipathy towards our enemies . |
| 17 | I 'd tell her everything — I ca n't think of anything I could n't share with her . |
| 18 | But for some of the workers who feel their wages are slipping away the race to the receivers and court feels like one they ca n't win . |
| 19 | No it sounds like one you wo n't have heard of on that , the big old LP 's that me and Nicola , Nicola for a birthday , that erm , school love he used to be er , oh I du n no what was his name ? |
| 20 | So now he would get them for something they might not have done . |
| 21 | Hence the dark-haired girl who did not know him and who wandered Skye and Minginish at will , searching for something she could not recognise . |
| 22 | Almost the first thing Mathers said was , ‘ You 're asking for something you ca n't get . ’ |
| 23 | Instead of teleology , however , Epicurus advocated the existence of chance and free will , partly because , like Aristotle , he argued that you can not blame or punish a man for something he can not help doing , but also because he believed that there is a kind of spontaneity in men ( and possibly in animals ) that is manifested in our apparent freedom , to originate actions . |
| 24 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 25 | ‘ Why , Alice , ’ Harry said , staring at her curiously , ‘ you sound as if you 've fallen in love with someone you ca n't have . |
| 26 | When you are playing a game of Monopoly with someone you may not be able to predict his strategy or the roll of the dice but you can predict that he will stick to the rules of the game . |
| 27 | A long conversation followed with someone I could not see . |
| 28 | Have you ever fallen in love with somebody you should n't have ? |
| 29 | On the other hand , something — many things — went wrong to turn a team who used to win virtually every match into one who could not win any . |
| 30 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |