Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [pron] [modal v] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course all this begs important questions about whether chemists have succeeded in duplicating the conditions of the early Earth but , even so , given that we ca n't answer these questions , the argument is worth pursuing . |
| 2 | ‘ Given that you ca n't give it up , and you seem unable to scrub round it at present , ’ said Francis , ‘ what exactly have you got ? |
| 3 | They 're trying to make the bottom bit look decent now , they keep buying things for it , but it never looks right you ca n't see it from here , we 'll go out and look at the garden after tea . " |
| 4 | It 's no good sitting down and moaning and , and being depressed and saying well I wo n't do that I wo n't do that . |
| 5 | He says another one wo n't do any harm . |
| 6 | Well I mean you ca n't really you ca n't do much you ca n't do much about |
| 7 | The point was , he 'd made sure I could n't sell it and blow the proceeds on some other scheme . |
| 8 | You 'll have to talk louder I ca n't hear you , you 're all muffled under those covers . |
| 9 | a non arbitr , well let's use their language , objective criteria on which it 's judge application to the membership , erm , and I 'm only , I 'm only imagining this , but I 'm , but as a matter of common sense one would of thought that one would n't like subjective or arbitrary and er indeed unknown criteria to apply erm , as , as in my point of view , as a matter of fairness , but er my question is and it was before and I , I 'm not sure I hoist in your answer , where , where does that fit in to article eighty five ? , |
| 10 | The officers comprising that who could n't agree on its er on its on its content . |
| 11 | ‘ What has he got that I could n't give you ? ’ he asked in a dull tone that chilled Ruth more than if he had bawled at her . |
| 12 | Just as she did n't take him for granted , she made sure he could n't take her for granted either . |
| 13 | I 'll make sure she ca n't talk , ’ Sapt said , and he carried the King away . |
| 14 | They want to appeal to people 's better nature , but to do that they ca n't point out what shmucks most of us are , most of the time . |
| 15 | I 'm static the only trouble is with our front is that because we 're getting old we ca n't manage , we 're not going to plan each garden , so it might be easier to have a , a big lawn and then |
| 16 | Well she wo n't be very big to begin with , if we get white it wo n't matter if it 's a boy or a girl will it ? |
| 17 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
| 18 | I 'm getting older I wo n't go boasting about it cos I 'll look every inch of what I am . |
| 19 | Now you can do that on the step , in fact do n't go from a house to a bungalow , you give up your best form of exercise , now I know people say ooh well when you get older you ca n't get up and down . |
| 20 | ‘ No you wo n't , when you 're eighteen you 'll be so busy getting thin you wo n't eat cakes at all . ’ |
| 21 | Well if you d yeah if you were buying , I was gon na say if you were buying cheap you should n't buy cheap coke , it 's alright to buy cheap lemonade but not coke . |
| 22 | You want me to do two you wo n't copy that very well but I 'll give it a go . |
| 23 | I said I wo n't play it when your there , just show me how too , machine you know , you know when you get , oh you get silly we ca n't play these new machines . |
| 24 | Helping those who ca n't help themselves . |
| 25 | If they are proved guilty we wo n't trade with them anymore . |
| 26 | If I keep doing this you wo n't want me . " |
| 27 | She potters over , ‘ I 'm going for a walk , so if I feel sick I wo n't puke all over your lawn . ’ |
| 28 | C. If fifty people came to me , real honest respectable people , and swore blind you would n't escape , I would n't trust them . |
| 29 | Er Andrea , er it 's gone eleven I must n't detain you any longer . |
| 30 | ‘ Honey , you can rest assured I wo n't let anything happen to you . |