Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Student union leaders at both Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores Universities stressed that students should not make themselves a target by going out alone . |
2 | The courts should not deny themselves the light which Parliamentary materials may shed on the meaning of the words Parliament has used and thereby risk subjecting the individual to a law which Parliament never intended to enact . |
3 | Now he has revealed the mistakes that led to England 's early departure from the tournament , though fans might not find themselves a lot the wiser . |
4 | HEART-THROB movie star Kevin Costner could n't find himself a girlfriend as a teenager because he was too short and shy . |
5 | Girls who could n't get themselves a husband in this country were sent out to find one in the colonies and it seldom failed . ’ |
6 | He could n't call himself a violinist , he says , because , for four years , his fiddle had only three strings , forcing him to virtuosic feats of improvisation . |
7 | I think that 's healthy , if you ca n't love yourself no one else will ! |
8 | I think that 's healthy , if you ca n't love yourself no one else will ! |
9 | I ca n't make myself an exception . |
10 | I ca n't give myself the great happiness of promising to be yours — because I am sure I ought not to ! ’ |
11 | But it 's better than giving handouts to the real mother in the first place , because with kids round her apron she ca n't find herself a job . |
12 | It is very simple : the artist can not allow himself the luxury of letting himself be manipulated passively by our culture . |
13 | A man divided can not allow himself the luxury of complacency . |
14 | We can not allow ourselves the empty luxury of doubt . ’ |
15 | But we do not like to admit that we masturbate , because people might think that we can not get ourselves a man or a woman of our own . |