Example sentences of "[vb past] he [vb mod] [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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1 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
2 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
3 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |
4 | Yes , to give him the chance to find the right one , the one that would stir him in such a way that he felt he could n't do without her . |
5 | If it meant interrogating Wheeler , he knew he could not do it . |
6 | ‘ He knew he could n't do it in Barcelona , so perhaps that 's why he took drugs . |
7 | Mr Saegusa 's first instinct was to refuse ; he thought he could not do it justice . |
8 | ‘ Last night he said he could n't do it alone . |