Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb mod] [not/n't] do " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Quite honestly , no politician worth his salt says there is a political job he would not do . ’
2 It shall be the duty of every professor to act as an examiner or assessor as and when requested to do so by a nominating committee or other competent body unless he can show reasonable cause to the satisfaction of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors why on a particular occasion he should not do so .
3 It shall be the duty of every professor to act as the supervisor of graduate students as and when requested to do so by a faculty board or other competent body , unless he can show reasonable cause , to the satisfaction of that board or other body , why on a particular occasion he should not do so .
4 Of course he ca n't do the job that he was doing and he 'd got potential of the future with , you understand what I mean ?
5 Alice could positively hear the thought : but of course he would n't do it if he were n't going to live here .
6 No , of course he could n't do that .
7 If Alex James just ran up and down the pitch a couple of times and said , ‘ Right , that 's my lot for today ’ , Whittaker knew the reason he could n't do any more was because his legs were covered in bruises , as they frequently were .
8 ‘ If you do n't ask him with 100 percent commitment and effort he wo n't do it , yet the feeling I got when it suddenly clicked was just amazing ! ’
9 The only thing he ca n't do is make up his mind how . ’
10 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 .
11 ‘ The only thing he could n't do was to look longingly innocent .
12 The one thing he could n't do was sell or get rid of them .
13 In the Dewhurst last year he could n't do it when he was let down — he needs good ground . ’
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