Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CRYSTAL PALACE 'S struggling squad did their bit for Children in Need yesterday — but today charity must not begin at home . |
| 2 | We must not look at goblin men |
| 3 | The home help service would not lock clients in their homes ; its view being that such people should not remain at home if they needed locking in . |
| 4 | Midwives and health visitors need to give extra support and input after placement , and should not accept at face value that families seem to be coping — many may be struggling . |
| 5 | Something that you may not notice at birth |
| 6 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 7 | She could not settle at school , ran away from home on several occasions and spent most of her time alone . |
| 8 | I could not stay at home and write a novel because I feel too tired and run down , and need a break from mental activity . |
| 9 | The National Front , where most leading opponents had grouped , could not operate at home , but it re-formed abroad . |
| 10 | THE NEW trainer of Brightness , the recaptured Beluga whale , said yesterday she was against keeping wild animals captive , but she supported his return to Crimea , because he could not survive at sea . |
| 11 | ‘ When the children are out at school I could n't stay at home all day , ’ she says . |
| 12 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 13 | It th , I was depressed , I had swe sweats , night sweats and my husband was all , he could n't sleep at night and it changed it completely ! |
| 14 | Now he 's about to get the follow-up treatment he could n't get at home . |
| 15 | He did not talk like this with anyone else , but his father would not laugh at talk of the Holy-Place-From-Over-the-Great-Water or the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much . |
| 16 | A man like this would not rise at dawn , hurry off to work , and return home hours later , weary and exhausted . |
| 17 | ‘ Be that as it may , ’ she hurried on , ‘ I would n't feel at home here , beautiful though it is , ’ she admitted in strangled tones . |
| 18 | The reason Nicola 's GP had sent her to me was that the little girl would n't sleep at night , had tantrums and breath-holding attacks , and her mother wondered if she was allergic to something she was eating . |
| 19 | Ca n't wear at work . |
| 20 | Defensive kingpins Redmond and Pointon ca n't arrive at Boundary Park a moment too soon after last night 's embarrassing 4–2 friendly defeat at Stockport . |
| 21 | What price the ‘ efficiency savings ’ made by day-surgery and early discharge when the patient leaves hospital with barely controlled pain and becomes infected , or simply ca n't cope at home and requires re-admission ? |
| 22 | Sufferers from Alzheimers Disease ca n't cope at home . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't sleep at night because I 'm worried : both about getting behind with my work , and about bouncing cheques , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It 's maddening — like voices in a dream , I ca n't sleep at night , they taunt me ’ |
| 25 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 26 | It 's not all fun — sometimes I ca n't sleep at night for worrying . ’ |
| 27 | Maybe someone will provide a 24-hour 0898 number which we can dial when we ca n't sleep at night for thinking about the copy of Milan Kundera 's Immortality lying untouched on the bedside table . |
| 28 | It 's , I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 29 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 30 | So we do n't have any sloppy kisses ca n't sleep at night . |