Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't [vb infin] [pers pn] at " in BNC.

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1 I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue .
2 " You should n't do it at all . "
3 You should n't do it at .
4 Belinda Hazel , 31 , said : ‘ Police should n't chase them at such speeds — then it would n't happen . ’
5 ‘ You sound as though disasters on the other side of the world should n't concern us at all , ’ said Scarlet .
6 and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ?
7 But I could n't leave it at that .
8 No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say .
9 Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time .
10 The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day .
11 He added : ‘ Ferzana wanted to watch TV and could n't do it at the family gathering . ’
12 My leg had gone completely to sleep and I could n't feel it at all , but I managed to hobble to the door , collecting fourpence out of my wallet , and down the stairs to the first landing where the telephone was .
13 Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’
14 She said she 's absolutely brilliant she said you could n't fault her at all .
15 I could n't stand chemistry anyway , could n't understand it at all , the atoms and the neutrons and all that .
16 They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance .
17 She looked sad and Jenna could n't understand it at all .
18 so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there
19 Edouard was sent back home , they could n't have him at work looking like that . ’
20 It 's like , with Sharon Stone , even at the end she was still dependent on Michael Douglas , like , when he was going she was crying and she could n't kill him at the end cos she loved him so much and , you know what I mean , so no , Body of Evidence , it 'll probably have a rubbish end and she 'll probably marry the lawyer or something , but it was still good to see her beat , tying a man up , putting candle wax on him and shit .
21 It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment .
22 I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all .
23 He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first .
24 Edge on , you could n't see it at all .
25 And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time .
26 There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all .
27 The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible .
28 I suspected about his thieving , but I could n't prove it at that stage .
29 He tried to tackle Gina about it , hinting that a young man like him needed sex from someone if he could n't get it at home .
30 She could n't turn it at first ; she fumbled and wrenched and then made herself try again , without forcing .
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