Example sentences of "[vb mod] not make [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JACKEY : Why , aunt , if they are actually married there 's no help for't and we must not make mischief between man and wife . |
| 2 | Although most DNA is in the B form , whose structure was originally determined by Watson and Crick , there is no reason why the cell should not make use of other forms as well , and indeed Alex Rich ( MIT ) described a protein binding with high affinity to the left-handed helix of Z-DNA that he first described . |
| 3 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 4 | In this way he was led to discover that the old laws could not make sense of these situations . |
| 5 | As hard as I tried , I could not make use of the staff , so I carried it , hobbling like a stage imbecile . |
| 6 | ( We have taken care here to ensure that an unscrupulous user could not make use of the calculus of expressions to reason about the large scale structure of programs . |
| 7 | And he was right , for unless they could lure the English across into the open they could not make use of their greater numbers or the advantage of the ground . |
| 8 | An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might . |
| 9 | John , whose Gospel scheme does not include , except by implication , the story of what the church , equipped with the Holy Spirit , achieved , and therefore could not make room for Pentecost ( as Luke does at the outset of his second volume ) , nevertheless makes the same point with considerable clarity In the first chapter of his Gospel he stresses that the Spirit rests exclusively upon Jesus , the fulfilment of the messianic hopes of the Old Testament for the bearer of the Spirit . |
| 10 | His lips moved , and some noises came out but I could n't make sense of them . |
| 11 | He said something and I could n't make sense of it |
| 12 | ‘ And if he could n't make love to his wife because she was paralysed from the waist down … ’ |
| 13 | In addition , from a purely practical point of view it would not make sense for judgment creditors to be afforded preferential treatment in insolvencies . |
| 14 | So far chemical methods had failed to produce purification , and it had also turned out that matter precipitated from dirty water would not make fertilizer of great value . |
| 15 | I 'm no fool , but that sentence would n't make sense to any insect . |
| 16 | ‘ Even if you were the last man on earth — I would n't make love to you , ’ she added bitterly . |
| 17 | But I ca n't make sense of it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Ca n't answer a question like that , ’ said Joe , ‘ ca n't make sense of it . ’ |
| 19 | I ca n't make love to you the way I want to — not here . |
| 20 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 22 | You ca n't make love at pistol point … her being filled with remorse , and she checked herself from flinging her arms round Lucy : steady , Jay , she told herself , we 're only seconds away from no , nay , never . |
| 23 | ‘ Because if she ca n't make money from the senator 's charter , ’ he went on , ‘ I was thinking of offering her a job or two on my own behalf . |
| 24 | Erm it does n't so You ca n't make soap in it . |
| 25 | No , no I do n't think I could cos I 'm on me own such a lot , I ca n't , you ca n't make conversation by yourself can ya ? |
| 26 | ‘ But you ca n't make war without the Kha-Khan 's permission . ’ |
| 27 | Let's face it , if you ca n't make par on a par-5 to win , you ought to be shot . ’ |
| 28 | I will not make use of the ransom theory in my retelling of the drama , but I shall cling on to the primitive belief , which I believe to be the correct biblical one , that God 's atonement in incarnation and cross was the crucial victory in the Great Battle not only over sin but also over the Devil and the powers of darkness . |
| 29 | If we look only at the surface of this transaction , it wo n't make sense to us . |
| 30 | It 's bound to be a bit strange for you at first , but saying you wo n't make love to your own husband in your own house because of the servants … ’ |