Example sentences of "they [modal v] n't [vb infin] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we all went , they could n't catch all of us . ’ |
| 2 | Maybe they had n't got any clothes , and they could n't afford one of the nice rooms , and they did n't belong anywhere , but they had each other and they had Baby to visit each day . |
| 3 | ‘ They would n't get much of a blaze going in this , ’ said Lydia , gesturing at the rain which was falling in an undisciplined , abandoned way as though someone had forgotten to turn it off . |
| 4 | Experts from the world 's biggest wildlife hospital say they ca n't reach many of the seals , which are dying on inaccessible rocks . |
| 5 | they ca n't do much of a business |
| 6 | BTW they said that season tickets were on sale and that Kop tickets cost 180 , surely they ca n't have any of these left ? |
| 7 | ‘ People simply wo n't use the trains if they ca n't complete most of their journey on the network . |
| 8 | Until there is a change in the law , charity shops will continue to lose thousands of pounds of income a week because they ca n't sell most of the toys donated to them . |
| 9 | Rather like pathological ‘ organisation men ’ , they seem so addicted to bureaucracy that they ca n't get enough of it in their day jobs . |
| 10 | ‘ They ca n't get enough of each other , ’ a friend said . |
| 11 | They have no friends and they ca n't remember much of the past . |