Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 2 | ‘ I should not think so at all . |
| 3 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 4 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
| 5 | And yet the impact on us is considerable , and I 'm seriously wondering whether the major spending committees ought not to look again at the budgets that they 're erm , and I 've discussed this with , and obviously education is the big problem , but er , I 'm not convinced that erm , the sums of money which we 're being asked to pay out , not be taken from the education budget without too dra drastic an effect on the school . |
| 6 | As a consequence the original idea of installing an additional floor in the building could not go ahead at present . |
| 7 | He could not think clearly at all of any women he knew or had known . |
| 8 | Mark , aware of the problem , records that the reaction of the chief priests and Scribes was to look for some way to get rid of Jesus , but that they could not do so at that moment because Jesus was popular with the people . |
| 9 | I could not get away at once because of all the clearing up there was to do , but at last the files on that unhappy case could be put away , and I was planning a fortnight 's cruise in my ancient Yorkshire coble Joanna , now moored on the Crouch . |
| 10 | Two days before it , however , when we were running through some back moves , my back seemed to lock out and I could n't move freely at all . |
| 11 | His features were regular but he had a distinct cast in one eye , so that he could n't stare straight at her without looking somewhere else . |
| 12 | We just could n't get quite at them could we , like you know , two one , they go three one , three two , they go four two , you know , like you think ‘ oh if you just could have ’ , you know . |
| 13 | They looked lovely on the mantelpiece in the flat but a new bouquet would not go astray at this stage . |
| 14 | One or two turns would probably suffice and anyway the money would not go far at this year 's prices . |
| 15 | Normally Charles and Diana would not sit together at state banquets , but their separation last night took on a new poignancy following the official announcement earlier this week that they have split . |
| 16 | I have made it a point of honour to spare you moral blackmail of the ‘ Do you honestly suppose for a single moment that I would be capable of stooping to such beastliness ? ’ variety , and I shall not waver even at this supreme moment . |
| 17 | But I would n't go outside at the moment . ’ |
| 18 | He would n't look twice at a small-town girl , even if she could design wedding dresses . |
| 19 | You ca n't do both at once . |
| 20 | However , the charm of the city raised her spirits and her first impressions after a night out at an artists ' ball were fresh and delightful : ‘ You ca n't walk home at dawn in Paris , even two hundred yards . |
| 21 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 22 | Things get uncovered that you ca n't see easily at other times . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He ca n't get away at the moment . ’ |
| 24 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 25 | There will be times when you simply ca n't work effectively at all . |
| 26 | Ca n't say more at the moment . |
| 27 | When she 's taking solids , she wo n't want much at each meal . |
| 28 | A pond wo n't stay still at all . |
| 29 | The lovely Madame Antoinette wo n't look twice at you , Rudolf . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |