Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb mod] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Under the veil of darkness cities take on a universal quality ’ , thought American artist DOUG DAWSON , until he brought his pastels to London and discovered that it held certain characteristics he could n't ignore . |
| 2 | ‘ Under the veil of darkness cities take on a universal quality ’ , thought American artist DOUG DAWSON , until he brought his pastels to London and discovered that it held certain characteristics he could n't ignore . |
| 3 | He heard two men arguing , but with water lapping in his ears he could n't make out the words . |
| 4 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 5 | Well yeah but he said without this card he ca n't get no money , cos he 's used what money he had to pay off the card . |
| 6 | If I have the heat up very high in the bedroom he ca n't sleep . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have to tell Meredith he ca n't keep her on , ’ St Ives decided . |
| 8 | She turned to the bookcase : ‘ Those were his books , but after he had his stroke he could n't read for any length of time without tiring his eyes and I used to read to him . |
| 9 | ‘ The important thing is that everyone has a blinding time , ’ says Dermot with the quiet confidence of a promoter who never promises attractions he ca n't deliver . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When Mr. Gosling picked the apples for me last month he left a few on the top branches he could n't reach , and they 're rather a temptation to boys , I expect . |
| 12 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly afraid to say the words aloud in case they were words he would n't want to hear . |
| 13 | On the team coach to away games when he was with Crystal Palace he could n't sit still for five minutes . |
| 14 | Christo in that car in the dark he ca n't work late , I ca n't get you over there in that car . |
| 15 | It was what Nigel wanted in theory , but in practice he could n't bear the whole thing ending acrimoniously , especially with her getting the last word . |
| 16 | Despite his fear he could n't help wanting to look over the edge of the basket but when he did was sure he saw , besides the surging of the sea , long black shadows just below the surface of the water . |
| 17 | Against the wind he ca n't get any er meat behind the clearance . |
| 18 | He wanted to improve their lot , as John Conolly was doing , but with Maud always wanting every luxury he could n't afford to leave this lucrative private madhouse . |
| 19 | Now , it was a luxury he could n't afford . |
| 20 | So the , the upshot of it all , is he 's banned for two races , but this is a susp suspended erm , ban over two months , er er , over six months rather , so it means that if he 's a good boy over the next six months he wo n't miss any races at all , so he has had a lucky escape . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've told yer before , 'e pays less than any ovver firm in Bermondsey an' 'e sacks 'is workers fer the least fing. 'E would n't tolerate the union fer ages an' as soon as any of 'is workers tried ter get the union in they were put off . |
| 22 | No wonder he ca n't bring himself to show much emotion at the news of his family 's demise . |
| 23 | No wonder he could n't understand anyone who worked for a living . |
| 24 | No. 3 was directly opposite the palace , only a minute away , but he was stopped twice by tourists whose thick German accents he could n't begin to understand , and then by having to settle a violent argument between two drivers who had managed to crash while manoeuvring their cars out of their parking spaces . |
| 25 | He says if he has a crash he wo n't know if he 's going to have to pay out or the insurance company . |
| 26 | If he was the cynosure of all eyes he did n't notice and in his present mood he would n't have been troubled if he had . |
| 27 | It 's a pity he do n't go and do that it 's a pity he ca n't drive and go and do that |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a pity he ca n't kill himself with drink , ’ muttered Heathcliff . |
| 29 | It 's a pity he could n't stick to something like that cos I mean ex-policemen can get jobs like that no trouble ca n't they ? |
| 30 | A red biplane from Crowfield had taken off and gone into a loop when he came out of the loop he could n't pull the plane level and he crashed into a field . |