Example sentences of "n't do it " in BNC.

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1 He gives an example about lifting a heavy weight and doing a multiplication sum at the same time and says you ca n't do it .
2 Well , I was one of the people who could n't do it even if I was n't lifting a heavy weight .
3 I knew I could n't do it alone , ’ Lucy said .
4 Well , I just wo n't do it .
5 ‘ I would n't do it if she was n't committed ’ explains Slater .
6 I ca n't see why the ordinary housewife should n't do it . ’
7 When talking of what is much discussed in East Berlin as ‘ the China solution ’ , an elderly woman at the Church of the Saviour expressed a widely-held view when she declared : ‘ The authorities just could n't do it .
8 I could n't do it .
9 If one of these things were missing , I could n't do it .
10 Some usherettes could n't carry the icecream trays : ‘ I ca n't do it , Mr Norden , I come over funny if I walk backwards . ’
11 Ten days later she 'd say , ‘ I ca n't do it , it 's my time of month . ’
12 Do n't do it like that , he said , do it like this .
13 Amy wo n't do it and I ca n't find anyone even to come in and keep it tidy . ’
14 I would n't do it today .
15 A child would n't do it .
16 The other week she tried to get me to buy some different plants , but I did n't do it .
17 But I ca n't do it — all I can think about is Marie 's face .
18 I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair .
19 She 'd always run into my arms when I did that so I could lift her up , but she do n't do it this time .
20 ‘ You wo n't do it drinking with Bodo till all hours , ’ Frau Nordern said , but it was a Parthian shot as she did , then , go to sleep .
21 ‘ I ca n't do it , ’ he thought .
22 He replied , ‘ Almost never — they just do n't do it . ’ ’
23 Do n't do it unless you mean it .
24 I could do now , with the knowledge I have , but I could n't do it then .
25 She would n't do it at the time , because she felt the whole issue ought to be allowed to settle down .
26 ‘ I do n't mean that like it sounds — she did n't do it to get on , or not like that . ’
27 ‘ I did n't do it , ’ she says defensively .
28 If this would n't do it , nothing would .
29 He could n't do it .
30 He could n't do it .
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