Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.

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1 I should n't just leave it on the floor look cos we sha n't find it again and then when the hoover tries to pick it up it will have a fit .
2 No you should n't really take it on him personally
3 Among ERA stockists — who may not always have it on every day — are the Bon Accord and Tennent 's Bar in Glasgow ; the Auld Hoose , Kinghorn ; the Woodside Inn , Blairgowrie ; and Betty Nicols , Kirkcaldy .
4 You could n't really manage it on a subaltern 's pay .
5 You want to see mine , you would n't even recognize me on my passport , I 've got two pictures right
6 The woman at the employment exchange would n't even register me on the Professional Executive Register .
7 I would n't even wish it on the person who did it to Paul . ’
8 And because I ca n't just dump myself on complete strangers … ’
9 There are also pitfalls of training ; you ca n't just take someone on , on test and say ‘ you are on test on the motorway ’ , that there 's got to be training .
10 You ca n't possibly have it on a verb , and that 's another little rule you might like to think of , that you 're only going to get the apostrophe on a noun , and you will never get an apostrophe on a pronoun .
11 But those symbols of fire and of wind are useful because when we say God is in us , when we say the Holy Spirit is in us , we ca n't actually grab anything and say you know we ca n't actually put it on a video and say , that little bit to the right of my heart is the Holy Spirit .
12 and you have to be careful with the master volume , not to set it too high , oh let's have a look well you ca n't really do it on this one
13 Cos you ca n't really put one on the fence .
14 Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship
15 That application can not simply model itself on the procedures of empirical research , however , since it has to operate within contexts which preclude it .
16 For you can not even get him on the telephone .
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