Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [modal v] [not/n't] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , nor I , and although I might have wanted , so very many times , over the past few years , to walk away , shed my responsibilities , let them all get the hell on with it , perhaps I 'm a marginally better person than I had thought , because I found I could n't do it . |
| 2 | I was about to add his son had been an excellent patient , and found I could not do it . |
| 3 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
| 4 | a story for them decided I could n't do it . |
| 5 | One , Federal Express just decided it would n't do it any more , and other other one Elan , a couple of weeks ago , or last week or whatever it was , decided it could n't afford to do it any more . |
| 6 | I knew I could n't do it alone , ’ Lucy said . |
| 7 | ‘ Some of you thought I could n't do it , ’ chuckled Pipe , who then gave credit to Dickinson for the role he played in Granville Again 's timely revival . |
| 8 | She felt she could n't do it again and she was n't about to crawl back to tell Ned Clarke so and have him volunteer Glyn for the job . |
| 9 | A tiny part of her wanted to confront him with what he 'd done ; yet she knew she could n't do it , could n't bear looking into his sea-blue eyes , or at the lips which had kissed her so tenderly the night before , only to laugh with Marianne today as he shared with her the secrets Shannon had confided so trustingly — so blindly ! |
| 10 | However , I knew you would n't do it , so I had to get Lori to own up . |
| 11 | I 'd send every letter I 've written you since we last met if I thought you would n't do it to me again , humiliate me again . |
| 12 | They thought you ca n't do it . |
| 13 | Ideally we might have preferred a juvenile actress , but with the restrictions on the hours children can work in Television we knew we could n't do it that way . ’ |
| 14 | But they felt they could n't do it . |
| 15 | If it meant interrogating Wheeler , he knew he could not do it . |
| 16 | ‘ He knew he could n't do it in Barcelona , so perhaps that 's why he took drugs . |
| 17 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
| 18 | it was being reorganized and the lady who did it could n't do it any more and would one of us like to take the |
| 19 | And I said well look I said , I 've got to come because I said there 's no way anybody I said I would n't do it myself , I would n't put anybody in those beds . |
| 20 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
| 21 | I said I would n't do it on casual . |
| 22 | And and Chris has just put his head in his hands and said I ca n't do it . |
| 23 | I said , he said I ca n't do it , you 've got to do it for me ! |
| 24 | there 's a thousand pound he said , you know , if you can make it right sort of over the next month but he said basically I can not do anything until erm the end of February , he said you come in the end of February he said and then we can start to sort it out , he said I ca n't do anything for you until then . |
| 25 | And he said he 's quite prepared to do it , he said , there would n't be no problem but he said I can not do it , he said they are |
| 26 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 27 | Soon as you said you ca n't do it he were gone for dust ! |
| 28 | World population , erm probably what I 'm gon na have to do is , although they , they said you ca n't do it do n't get any ideas about doing it with because it 's not possible . |
| 29 | Er , and I mean , as was conventional in those days , you educate , your sons went to school and you try and , educated your girls at home , but the , the aunt put her foot down and said she would n't do it . |
| 30 | I said we ca n't do anything with that . |