Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb mod] [not/n't] do [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When George saw that Curley was attacking Lennie , George allowed Lennie to fight back because he knew that he could not do everything for Lennie . |
| 2 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 3 | Except on the vital matter of Europe , where the outcome is not yet clear , but where , at least , he is better than his opponents , I am quite confident that he will not do anything damaging to Britain . |
| 4 | ‘ No , but all the other proof was in West Germany so he could not do anything more . |
| 5 | People kept saying to him , ‘ Stop picking your nose , ’ and he could n't do anything about it . |
| 6 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 7 | Well I 'll get Peter to look at it , if he ca n't do anything , get someone in . |
| 8 | It is widely believed , for example , that farmers contaminate watercourses every day in the normal course of their jobs ; but , as an officer from a rural district put it , ‘ I would n't take action if he could n't do anything about it . ’ |
| 9 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
| 10 | ‘ Willoughby tried , but he could n't do anything much , ’ Jo-Ann said . |
| 11 | But he smiles back — of course — because he ca n't do anything else for he is ill at ease , they are ill at ease and they all drown in smiles that suffocate . |
| 12 | ‘ He saw things before anyone else and that must be one of most frustrating things for him as a manager , because he ca n't do anything about it now . |