Example sentences of "she [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If she may n't have a dram , ’ James said , ‘ What might I tempt her with ? |
| 2 | All such kinsmen are , from a girl 's point of view , either " brothers " or " cross-cousins " and she may not marry a " brother " . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , though she may not recognise the name it goes by from any catalogue of thou-shalt-nots , our Riva knows an abomination when she sees one . |
| 4 | If the salesperson is unsuccessful at this stage , then he or she may not have the opportunity of selling to the firm again until the next model change ( and even then it is difficult trying to dislodge established suppliers ) . |
| 5 | She may not say a word but — it 's another base to be touched . ’ |
| 6 | Later , when Aubrey had left to take Primrose home , Pogo said , ‘ She c-could n't hold a candle to you , Maddy . |
| 7 | But she knew she must n't make a fuss . |
| 8 | She must n't move an inch . |
| 9 | She had agreed to this dinner to try to find out the truth , and she must n't allow the attraction she felt for him to cloud that . |
| 10 | She must n't let the sense of happiness grow and blossom just because she had met him . |
| 11 | He was magnificent , but she must n't let the surge of unexpected excitement running through her blind her to the danger he could be to Dana . |
| 12 | Yet Travis — if it was him — had exacted a promise from her that she must n't breathe a word about Rosemary . |
| 13 | Queen Margaret is most welcome to return but she must not bring an army of twenty thousand English ‘ advisers ’ with her . |
| 14 | She must not forget the other reason why she had wished to find work here , and exile from her old life was not the main one for her presence in Vetch Street . |
| 15 | She must not let a nervous glance betray her . |
| 16 | I thought she must not like the idea of my going on the plane with her , then coming home every year laden with presents . |
| 17 | But she must not have a wooden leg or a cast in her eye , since these are things most of us hope to escape . |
| 18 | Annie asked , looking briefly into his eyes and reminding herself that she must not prolong the conversation . |
| 19 | Above all , Alida Thorne said to herself , she must not receive the impression of neglect . |
| 20 | Determined that she should not go the same way as her sister , Jonadab Oaks had ruled Martha with a rod of iron ever since Tamar 's seduction by Sir William Forster . |
| 21 | Her sire is Glint Of Gold , so she should not mind the rain that has eased the Newmarket going . |
| 22 | Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true . |
| 23 | It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well . |
| 24 | She should still have been able to get a seat , but she should not have a carriage practically to herself . |
| 25 | For example , the patient may have indicated that if her illness has progressed beyond a certain specified point , she should not receive a particular , or any , form of intervention . |
| 26 | If the wife was a purchaser for money , she would insist on the husband conveying as " beneficial owner " , and there seems no good reason therefore why she should not receive the benefit of these implied covenants when taking a conveyance of the matrimonial home from the husband by order of the court or by way of final agreement between them . |
| 27 | Whilst the husband and wife as owners of the legal estate can make a conveyance or transfer as trustees to the wife alone as discussed in the previous section , there seems no good reason , when the husband conveys or releases his beneficial interest to the wife , why she should not receive the benefit of the " beneficial owner " covenants ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 28 | And if Marian and the outlaws had already met there was no reason why she should not use the highway and move as fast as they . |
| 29 | Sir Gregory knew that was out of the question , but it was also essential that she should not see the entrance to the tunnel . |
| 30 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |