Example sentences of "he [modal v] n't [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't see why he should n't suffer a bit . |
| 2 | He did n't see why he should n't have a stab at the more serious mode of public address . |
| 3 | She added : ‘ It was a joint decision when it was decided that he should n't retire a couple of years ago . |
| 4 | I reckon he could easily have shot 64 again in the last round , but he could n't hole a putt . |
| 5 | ‘ He could n't cure a side of bacon , ’ muttered Jackie . |
| 6 | But he could n't invent a love that had never been there and he felt that Lou would be better off without him . |
| 7 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |
| 8 | He could n't tell a lie to save his life . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He tried , I heard him ; he could n't make a fuss , Mum would have heard . |
| 12 | Rainey believes he could n't make a corner at GP speed if he merely sat on the bike without pushing down — hard . |
| 13 | Cos I noticed when we were there and it just collapsed he could n't walk a lot . |
| 14 | He could n't give a damn about anybody — that was one of the things that was so attractive about him . |
| 15 | Er he could n't give a damn about er |
| 16 | He sounded as if he could n't give a damn either way . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But today he could n't give a fuck about the famine . |
| 20 | Well , he could n't give a hoot , either ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ He could n't hold a conversation about anything else . |
| 23 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 24 | He believed that there were ‘ some ’ , but he could n't name a Guards regiment with a black soldier in it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If it 's the and that down it he could n't see a blockage . |
| 27 | He could n't see a thing . |
| 28 | He could n't see a horse playing badminton . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ( It was a driver and it 's now mounted in Lyle Towers because after that he could n't hit a fairway with it ! ) |