Example sentences of "he [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may not talk at all … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He should n't bark at me , I 'm family , ’ Benny defended him . |
| 3 | Oh God , thought Daisy , he must n't smile at her like that , he 's utterly irresistible . |
| 4 | He must not look at her until she told him to do so . |
| 5 | Most of all , he must not look at the food on his plate . |
| 6 | Although he was hitting the ball all over the place in practice , Seve was figuring out which side of the fairways to miss on a lot of holes , and places where he could n't go at all . |
| 7 | Erm he could n't walk at all . |
| 8 | I thought it must be sex , if I turned my back I did it where he could n't spring at me , and I listened . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 11 | He was scowling fiercely , partly because the sky was so blazing blue that he could n't look at it and partly because he was Moses Arkwright , the famous jewel thief , searching out a rival gang that had stolen the biggest ruby in the world from the Tower of London . |
| 12 | but Jack said he could n't look at it just now he was busy so |
| 13 | He could n't look at me and Ann cause we was laughing . |
| 14 | She … she wanted to provide me with something to be able to go off with Emma where he could n't get at her . |
| 15 | Now he 's about to get the follow-up treatment he could n't get at home . |
| 16 | Boyle said : ‘ I was trying to keep hold of him so he could n't get at me . |
| 17 | It had involved the use of a symbol and a photograph to produce a novel communicative request to go to a very specific location , and one that he could not request at his keyboard alone . |
| 18 | I knew he could not stay at my hotel . |
| 19 | It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn . |
| 20 | ‘ He could not move at all , not even a blink , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Three months after his symptoms had started , he could not sleep at all , and suffered from waking dreams . |
| 22 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 23 | He could not look at her : he was overcome by her directness . |
| 24 | ‘ I wish to God I knew , ’ he said , but he could not look at her , because he did know . |
| 25 | It was three days now since the wedding and yet he could not look at her without thinking that . |
| 26 | He could not look at her . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | By June he had tried seven different prospective designers without finding one who could give him what he wanted , but was emphatic that he could not work at a distance with Hanns or other Johannesburg artists , ‘ so that 's that ’ . |
| 29 | He would not arrive at the door . |
| 30 | The Colonial Secretary , now Lennox-Boyd , invited Nkrumah to visit London but he would not leave at this critical time . |