Example sentences of "he [modal v] not [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may not talk at all … ’ |
| 2 | He must not look at her until she told him to do so . |
| 3 | Most of all , he must not look at the food on his plate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I knew he could not stay at my hotel . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ He could not move at all , not even a blink , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Three months after his symptoms had started , he could not sleep at all , and suffered from waking dreams . |
| 9 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 10 | He could not look at her : he was overcome by her directness . |
| 11 | ‘ I wish to God I knew , ’ he said , but he could not look at her , because he did know . |
| 12 | It was three days now since the wedding and yet he could not look at her without thinking that . |
| 13 | He could not look at her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | He would not arrive at the door . |
| 17 | The Colonial Secretary , now Lennox-Boyd , invited Nkrumah to visit London but he would not leave at this critical time . |
| 18 | He would not answer at her call . |
| 19 | Brutus says that he has no real reason to believe that Caesar would change his nature like this but because they had no proof either was it would be too much of a presumption to say that he would not change at all . |
| 20 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 21 | He will not talk at the committee unless he has a genuine contribution to make to the discussion . |
| 22 | He may be frightened by crossing a road , by fast cars , by crowds or sudden noises , so that his spasticity increases ; he may panic and freeze in these situations , so that he can not move at all . |
| 23 | The patient may try to use his ‘ good ’ side to compensate for the affected side of his body which he can not move at will . |
| 24 | Speaking in public , as he can not do at home , Mr Sisulu said that this weekend 's conference in South Africa called by the Mass Democratic Movement to bring together all anti-apartheid forces was likely to call for intensified economic sanctions . |
| 25 | Also until such time as a creditor has lodged a proof of debt , he can not vote at meetings of creditors . |
| 26 | Mandale Harrier Shaun Purcell , runner-up in the Cleveland Schools Championships , has been told he can not compete at Bristol next month because he missed the annual School InterCounties with a flu virus . |
| 27 | Some world lost when first he dived , that he can not come at since , |
| 28 | This fellowship does not of course embrace Rome ; in Pilgrim 's Progress , Christian encounters Giant Pope , old and biting his nails because he can not get at the pilgrims , and mumbling to them , ‘ You will never mend till more of you be burned . ’ |
| 29 | First , in the two-party situation there is normally a remedy already available to B , while in the three-party situation , if C can not sue for intimidation , he can not sue at all . |