Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb mod] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a pity he could n't stick to something like that cos I mean ex-policemen can get jobs like that no trouble ca n't they ? |
| 2 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 3 | But all day he would n't talk to me , and I must admit , I did get quite a few looks and remarks from boys there . |
| 4 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |
| 5 | He will resign if he is forced to accept an unrealistic budget he can not commit to . |
| 6 | want that bit he wo n't talk to me if I had that . |
| 7 | I expect he can talk to her in a way he ca n't talk to me . |
| 8 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 9 | Méliès 's first example , the girl turning into a skeleton in The Vanishing Lady ( 1896 ) , is more persuasively achieved by a dissolve in Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) when Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins ) , locked up in jail , is taken over by his ‘ mother ’ ( that is , his fantasy of the mother he ca n't admit to having killed ) and his face turns into a skull , her skull . |