Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [pers pn] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ The good news is that he may not do you any positive harm . |
| 2 | And during that terrible evening by the fireside , when she told him her story , how desperately sad she had been to realize he might not love her any more . |
| 3 | She shut up and her mouth fell into a gape , the sweat appeared in globules on her upper lip , the colour deepened in her face and she seemed to have to force breath into her lungs as she listened to him now saying , ‘ You 'll not tell me any more what I 've got to do and what I have n't got to do . |
| 4 | The man continued to look at her strangely , and then at last he said , ‘ It 'll not do you any good , love . ’ |
| 5 | He knew that he still whistled sometimes , but the bogeyman could not scare him any more . |
| 6 | Alexander asked if the doctor knew what that something was , but he could not give him any answer . |
| 7 | I had hoped that on my twenty-first birthday I would discover more about my future , but Mr Jaggers explained that he could not give me any more information , except that from now on I would have five hundred pounds a year to spend as I liked . |
| 8 | Susan broke off and leaned back , looking so tired that Breeze could not ask her any of the things she naturally wanted to know , about their father 's last weeks of life . |
| 9 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 10 | He would not do her any real harm . |
| 11 | It would not do you any credit to stay on in Munich without an appointment . |
| 12 | But she would not lend him any . |
| 13 | It was clear that Mrs Fairfax would not tell me any more . |
| 14 | SHE had feared that she would not know him any more … that his 1,943 days of hell as a hostage would have left them strangers . |
| 15 | The true pressures are a few thousand times atmospheric , which may sound a lot but is quite normal in solids and will not give you any fusion benefits on its own . |
| 16 | You can say as much as you like in a letter and it will not cost you any more than the price of a stamp . |
| 17 | You may have good grounds for your negative feelings , but those feelings will not do you any good . |
| 18 | otherwise it just will not do you any good . |
| 19 | Which will not do you any harm . |
| 20 | Be polite , but a reserved dignity when dealing with those of good position will not lose you any face or business , and it will strengthen your professional status . |
| 21 | They will not win you any prizes but , if you can manage to knit just one of them , you will be helping someone who really needs your help . |
| 22 | I can not tell you any more . |
| 23 | If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way . |
| 24 | He sat by his mother 's bed , biting the skin at the side of his nails , and thought that of all the grudges you bear , the grudges you bear against your parents are the ones you live with always — you can not fight them any more than you can fight heat or cold or some virulent infection in the blood . |
| 25 | ‘ Your Grace , ’ Clinton spoke up , ‘ your nephew and his companion will be most welcome in our retinue but I can not promise you any success . ’ |
| 26 | Since then the garage has been obliged to leave some of its cars on the lines because it can not display them any other way . |
| 27 | the food basket ( i.e. rationed food ) is no longer taken advantage of in full by the poorer segments of the urban population simply because they can not afford it any more . |