Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what you must n't use is the comma . |
| 2 | He must n't be expected to make an effort when he does n't feel like it , he must n't risk being hemmed in or bored , but everyone has to be ever so careful of his feelings , poor sensitive soul , and when he wants a good fuck he comes to obliging loving little Ruth because he can relieve himself and have his morale boosted without having to do a damned thing about it but get himself into your bed . ’ |
| 3 | I must n't have been concentrating . |
| 4 | She swung round to him , grinding out in a low voice , ‘ She must n't have been any beginner , not goin , by the uncles the child 's had . |
| 5 | He , he phoned you you mus , you must n't have been in . |
| 6 | I must n't have been out of that office half an hour and I 'd , she 'd rung here and left a message to say I could go on it . |
| 7 | My first big act of rebellion against cultural expectations of what an Indian woman should or should n't do was when I left home in the face of family opposition to go into higher education . |
| 8 | But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last . |
| 9 | Those things should n't 've been there , for some reason they 'd infuriated him . |
| 10 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 11 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 12 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 13 | ‘ My dear fellow , we spend our time here working on things that should n't have been said , but unless they are , ’ he added thoughtfully , ‘ nobody gets anywhere . |
| 14 | She protested that they should n't have been put on there without her authority , and the farm chaps laughed and said , ‘ You wo n't be wanting that again . ’ |
| 15 | Scunthorpe survived largely because Futcher thought he was offside when he was n't and Deary was when he should n't have been — his 81st-minute goal being disallowed to the despair of the home fans and the delight of those setting off across the black hills . |
| 16 | I should n't have been content to be just a wife . ’ |
| 17 | He should n't have been thinking about things like that at his age ! ’ |
| 18 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 19 | Morrissey was deeply upset by the ‘ Suffer Little Children ’ episode , but he should n't have been surprised . |
| 20 | Defending solicitor Bob Booker told the court : ‘ If the grating which surrounds the washing area had been clear there should n't have been any problems . |
| 21 | ‘ She should n't have been there , his wife , ’ Rab said . |
| 22 | But they thought that the boys should n't have been swimming there anyway . |
| 23 | Perhaps his initial success should n't have been all that surprising for he comes of good rugby stock . |
| 24 | We press-ganged Simon Rodger into playing , and George Ndah had three stitches in his ankle and should n't have been there . |
| 25 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 26 | That said , she should n't have been sold the tank in the first place . |
| 27 | It was an important fight , and she should n't have been conce with petty pickings like the hymn-singers . |
| 28 | There should n't have been a cattle herd of feet trampling over the grass . |
| 29 | I was so stunned you 'd managed to pull off such a coup — but I should n't have been surprised , remembering how you built up the company from nothing . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Evans was angry and he should n't have been , she had tried so hard to explain … |