Example sentences of "he [vb mod] n't [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 'E wo n't spend a penny on 'em .
2 I did n't see why he should n't suffer a bit .
3 He did n't see why he should n't have a stab at the more serious mode of public address .
4 She added : ‘ It was a joint decision when it was decided that he should n't retire a couple of years ago .
5 I reckon he could easily have shot 64 again in the last round , but he could n't hole a putt .
6 He could n't cure a side of bacon , ’ muttered Jackie .
7 But he could n't invent a love that had never been there and he felt that Lou would be better off without him .
8 He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language .
9 He could n't tell a lie to save his life . ’
10 He could n't tell a woman like Maggie Byrne that thoughts of Sarah were blighting his relationship with his wife , and turning him to celibacy .
11 I said he could n't tell a line of dialogue from a line of coke and anyway his face was carved out of corned beef , and he threatened to punch me .
12 He tried , I heard him ; he could n't make a fuss , Mum would have heard .
13 Rainey believes he could n't make a corner at GP speed if he merely sat on the bike without pushing down — hard .
14 Cos I noticed when we were there and it just collapsed he could n't walk a lot .
15 He could n't give a damn about anybody — that was one of the things that was so attractive about him .
16 Er he could n't give a damn about er
17 He sounded as if he could n't give a damn either way .
18 but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration .
19 They seem to have treated the lifters as brainlessly as they did a student with a night job in Bournemouth when he could n't give a sample despite an hour of trying on a roasting day in London .
20 But today he could n't give a fuck about the famine .
21 Well , he could n't give a hoot , either !
22 He started shaking if you said ‘ Hello ’ too loudly and for several hours after his punishment felt very hungry because he could n't hold a knife and fork long enough to get the food into his mouth .
23 He could n't hold a conversation about anything else .
24 They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down .
25 He believed that there were ‘ some ’ , but he could n't name a Guards regiment with a black soldier in it .
26 He could n't imagine a government servant working abroad who did not feel that tug of pleasure when he walked up the steps of his embassy in a foreign capital .
27 If it 's the and that down it he could n't see a blockage .
28 He could n't see a thing .
29 He could n't see a horse playing badminton .
30 He hurried out into the garden but to his disappointment he could n't see a pear tree anywhere let alone one with a partridge in it .
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