Example sentences of "[modal v] n't do a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there is no reason why you should n't do a rough-cut , followed by a fine-cut , before you start on your final version . |
| 2 | We could n't do a thing about it , only get on with our jobs , living from day to day and , being young , looking forward to the day — surely not too far ahead — when things would start moving in our favour again . |
| 3 | I was in Helen Blair 's house tonight … could n't do a thing to her , because her fuckin' wee brother ( about your age ) would not piss off . |
| 4 | I 'm sure they 're the nicest guys in the world , but I was at the MTV awards in America when they were trying to do a soundcheck , and they could n't do a song because their tapes were n't working . |
| 5 | I could n't do a session without one now . ’ |
| 6 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 7 | I saw it happen , and I could n't do a thing to help them . |
| 8 | She could n't do a thing about it . |
| 9 | After the disastrous presidency of George Bush , Arfur Daley himself could n't do a worse job . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , and you also told me , yesterday , that you could n't do a thing about it . ’ |
| 11 | Without Gesner and the rest of the cast they could n't do a great deal , but the Maritza scenes with Freddi could be rehearsed and several other small fragments of the three old operettas . |
| 12 | ‘ Could n't do a thing . |
| 13 | It 's just cos I , I could n't do a lot more about that one . |
| 14 | I suppose in the year I need n't do a star , a star if you wanted to . |
| 15 | He 's three months old and I love him and I would n't do a thing to harm him . |
| 16 | It has led to some funny situations , with irate daughters saying ‘ my mother would n't do a thing like that ! ’ . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , ' ’ said So-and-So , ‘ you would n't do a thing-like that . ’ , |
| 18 | ‘ But I would n't do a fourth movie . |
| 19 | Your principles and hard held prejudices will be respected if for no other reason than one of simple commercial sense : you probably would n't do a good job creating the advertisement even if you tried , because you actively disbelieve in the product or proposition . |
| 20 | I certainly would n't do a portrait unless it was someone I 'd really like to do . |
| 21 | He would n't do a thing like that ! |
| 22 | They would n't do a thing like that ! |
| 23 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 24 | No , would n't do a thing like that would I ? |
| 25 | would n't do a lot of work , but the work he does yeah , I just want certain amount of money a day say ten per cent of , yes |
| 26 | Oh , but you say , I I would n't do a thing like that ! |
| 27 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 28 | I ca n't do a thing with my carrots |
| 29 | You ca n't do a début again can you ? |
| 30 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |