Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] [prep] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 2 | He could not think of a single convincing excuse that would get him out of the house . |
| 3 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 4 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 5 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |
| 6 | It was symbolic , perhaps , of the deep-rooted nature of national instincts that the ECSC could not agree upon a single language in which to conduct its activities . |
| 7 | PEACE envoy Lord Owen warned last night that Bosnia-Herzegovina would not survive as a single state if Moslems and Croats continued fighting . |
| 8 | The rhetorical theorist would not dissent from a single word , but would feel impelled to add a further remark . |
| 9 | For this reason , although Iveco runs a fully integrated European operation , the group can not trade as a single company with a single board of directors . |
| 10 | Among grasses , I can not think of a single one that is not lovely . |
| 11 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 12 | She infers that using such forms means ‘ absence of cognitive flexibility ’ and quotes the studies by Bereiter and others ( Osborn , 1967 ) of lower-class children who , it is argued , ‘ can not conceive of a single object having two attributes ’ ( ibid . ) . |