Example sentences of "n't [verb] [adv] [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this does n't explain why we should think it is the sort that is invoked in an argument from analogy . |
| 2 | But , ridiculous or not , it did n't explain why she should feel so cheated . |
| 3 | Ca n't think why and I ca n't think why they should think they must n't go on Pan Am cos Pan Am are a target |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't think why you should want to buy any more clothes — you look delightful in that dress . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't think why anybody would want to paint this , ’ said one staff nurse about Radcliffe Infirmary 's Geriatric Ward . |
| 6 | Steve 's due back tomorrow evening … he 'll have to leave before then but I ca n't think where he 'll go . ’ |
| 7 | No no I do n't think ever I can remember . |
| 8 | I do n't think though we should give the impression that most of the behaviour we 're calling sexual harassment takes the form of behaviour that |
| 9 | ‘ If ever we had to move , ’ said Edward to Joan one sunny afternoon , ‘ I ca n't think how we 'd begin to sort out this lot . ’ |
| 10 | You do n't know when we 'll get a day like this again . |
| 11 | I do n't know when we 'll get them . |
| 12 | * The Shah had said , " We do n't know when we will return and you need to be with your families . |
| 13 | But I do n't know when we could do that . |
| 14 | I just do n't know when we could get it all together though — that 's the only problem . ’ |
| 15 | People do n't know when they can get it or not . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know when you will go . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know when you will go . |
| 18 | Do n't know when I 'll find out . |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't get a chance to see each other that much now — I do n't know when I 'll see her again — but I miss her . |
| 20 | I 've got a fiver , I do n't know when I can change it , but I want to change it , erm . |
| 21 | Well I did n't know when I 'd see you see so I thought I can always leave them at Dorothy 's for you . |
| 22 | We got a young woman off sick , and you can take her place ; do n't know when she 'll come back , if she ever does . ’ |
| 23 | My daughter is not with me at the moment and I do n't know when she 'll come back . |
| 24 | I do n't know when he can do it . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know why one should know about jade , ’ said Ivy . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , well , I do n't know why anybody should have planted trees just here , ’ said Chris Growcott , looking disparagingly at the weedy wood nearby . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know why anyone would do something like this , ’ he said , ‘ but the stickers are proper , professional ones , not just scrawled writing over the posters . |
| 28 | I do n't know why anyone would live in Darlington any more . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I do n't know why anyone should go to that trouble . |
| 30 | Would you bother , editor of Penthouse here , I mean I do n't know why , I do n't know why I should think you know what women want , I guess you know what men want ? |