Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] not do a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't do a session without one now . ’ |
| 2 | It 's just cos I , I could n't do a lot more about that one . |
| 3 | I saw it happen , and I could n't do a thing to help them . |
| 4 | I tried to start the engine but the airman on the starter battery trailer had fled so I could not do a thing except huddle in the cockpit , waiting for the sensation of being hit . |
| 5 | I suppose in the year I need n't do a star , a star if you wanted to . |
| 6 | He 's three months old and I love him and I would n't do a thing to harm him . |
| 7 | Oh , but you say , I I would n't do a thing like that ! |
| 8 | Diesel park West sent us incredible demo tapes , but I would not do a deal without seeing them perform live. , |
| 9 | I 'd love to be back in Bishop Auckland just now , if only for the gossip , but I ca n't do a day 's canvassing and sometimes feel a bit of a passenger . |
| 10 | I ca n't do a thing with my carrots |
| 11 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |
| 12 | Q My son is nine and I can honestly say I ca n't do a thing with him . |
| 13 | Come on man , I 've got Come with a nice young lady , intelligent In a cardboard box , informer lick your boom boom there lick your boom boom there with my dibby , dibby dob , police knock my door , they shout my crib , rough me up and I ca n't do a thing , pick up the when the telephone ring informer . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't do a riding turn , darling , ’ said his wife . |
| 15 | So there is no reason why you should n't do a rough-cut , followed by a fine-cut , before you start on your final version . |
| 16 | She was being blackmailed and , because of her promise to Travis never to breathe a word about the woman he truly did love , she could not do a thing about it . |
| 17 | She could n't do a thing about it . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , and you also told me , yesterday , that you could n't do a thing about it . ’ |
| 19 | but Martin you ca n't do a song about doggy-dos . |
| 20 | When I left school I would n't go on with me dad at first , I said I wanted to play football and me dad did n't want me to play football and he said you ca n't do a milkround and play football . |
| 21 | You ca n't do a début again can you ? |
| 22 | I do n't think he minded , for once he said to me , ‘ You ca n't do a job like mine unless you 're fascinated by it ’ , and I was n't . |
| 23 | if you ca n't do a lot more work . |
| 24 | And you ca n't do a thing . |
| 25 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 26 | She ca n't do a thing around the house . |
| 27 | She ca n't do a thing about it . ’ |
| 28 | While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem . |
| 29 | We could n't do a thing about it , only get on with our jobs , living from day to day and , being young , looking forward to the day — surely not too far ahead — when things would start moving in our favour again . |
| 30 | We 'd kill to have wash'n'wear hair , but we ca n't do a thing with our drooping rats ' tails . |