Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not answer and if I am doing your mouth I shall tell you so . ’ |
| 2 | I would never hunt , I will also not demand that anybody else hunts and I do n't think other people should say to me what I should and what I should not do and I think that 's the issue . |
| 3 | Changing from being employed to being self-employed , it 's , it 's a big change that is you and er , and er the union the union helped me and er told me what I could do and what I could n't do and all that sort of thing . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't aid and abet you against Susan . ’ |
| 5 | I could n't spell and about the only time in your life you 're not allowed to use a dictionary is in an English ‘ O ’ level exam . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't cope and got into drugs more and more . |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't talk and realised it was serious . |
| 8 | And then everything was in bandages so I could n't tell and I asked immediately and somebody said : ‘ They have taken it out . ’ |
| 9 | And I could n't go and vandalize something that was nice . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't sleep and drink was a way of winding down . |
| 11 | I could n't run and play like other kids and , inevitably , they called me names . |
| 12 | I could n't smile and she did n't know . |
| 13 | I could n't hear and was crying from the pain , but I saw him put his foot sideways into Marius 's midriff . |
| 14 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 15 | My throat closed , I felt sick , I could n't breathe and when my voice finally squawked out , I realised the song was far too high for me . |
| 16 | Elsie muttered something I could n't catch and walked off , skirting the group , towards the far end of the site and her own caravan . |
| 17 | ‘ If I could n't read and write , mam , I 'd have a hard job running my boot and shoe round , would n't I ? ’ |
| 18 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 19 | So until then , I just could n't see , but , of course , I did n't realize that I could n't see and it was all a blur , because I never knew what it was like to see objects in focus . |
| 20 | If you were to come yourself Lily or the child 's Father I could not stand in your way whatever my feelings which are strong , but to hand over my Precious little one to a Young and Foreign girl who spoke his only language poorly that I could not do and send him with her on a dangerous voyage most frightening to him . |
| 21 | I could not sleep and the pains started . ’ |
| 22 | A third Free Presbyterian minister said : ‘ Perhaps the main reason [ for leaving the Orange Order ] was that in 1969 I was saved by the grace of God and therefore felt that I could not sit and be associated with members of the Orange and Black while they consumed alcohol in their meetings on the 12th and 13th mornings each July . ’ |
| 23 | When I came round again , I could not see and Jorge told me my father was dead . ’ |
| 24 | Obviously I could not relax and take stock in the turret after what had happened , so I worked my way back to the Bible Room , closed the door quietly and lay down in the bunk . |
| 25 | I felt I could not breathe and murmured as best I could ‘ Take me ’ . |
| 26 | I 'll do it straight on that , I need n't go and authorise the cheque , have to get it on that |
| 27 | than my job then he said I presume you 've got mixed feelings , I said no my feelings are n't mixed up at all , I 'm quite , I 'm quite sure of my feelings of what I know , I said David I would n't associate myself , I would n't drink and I would n't go out with anybody in this building and he nearly fell over and he said dare I ask why ? |
| 28 | er the one 's that I choose to make , but I would n't go and ask someone to , to help me with it . |
| 29 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 30 | But I would n't go and see Ziegfeld . ’ |