Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [not/n't] buy [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if it had been irradiated , well , let us put it this way , I would n't buy food if I knew it was irradiated . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't buy players but I have to make sure we keep the ones we have . |
| 3 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 4 | I ca n't buy Offiah 's excuse that he needed immediate ice-pack treatment on a leg . |
| 5 | Now , in the very week Greenpeace urged us all to send postcards to Mr Scopes , the chief executive of ICI paints , to say , ‘ I wo n't buy Dulux paints until ICI stops des-troying the ozone layer ’ , Northampton borough council struck its own blow for the atmosphere . |
| 6 | Yu ca n't buy Race Relations or afford a holiday |
| 7 | Oh it was after the First World War because everything was rationed and you could n't buy onions but er I 'd say it was about seventy years ago |
| 8 | A plaintive Beatles love song poured all over them proclaiming that you could n't buy love . |
| 9 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 10 | For example , you ca n't buy milk in the shop Milk . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh you ca n't buy knowledge , sir . |
| 12 | The poor do n't possess The Paupers Cook Book or Good Food on a Budget or magazine pull-outs of cheap casseroles — for a start , a " pauper 's " cuisine is always more expensive than beans on toast and if you 're a pauper you ca n't buy books and magazines anyhow . |
| 13 | You would n't buy beef with the spinal cords still in . |
| 14 | She says she wo n't buy bananas again . |
| 15 | You can not buy happiness . |
| 16 | You can not buy players like Peter for £1m these days . ’ |
| 17 | And you can not buy love . |
| 18 | But they would fetch 'em and pay for them , and I even today , you can not buy love . |
| 19 | Just as a hallway has no meaning on its own — after all , you can not buy hallways without the rest of the building ( ‘ nice hallway to sell , hardly ever used ’ ) — so prayer has no meaning on its own . |
| 20 | The fastest growing industry seems to be receivership and , alas , you can not buy shares in Cork Gulley . |
| 21 | We ca n't buy justice on an economy label . |
| 22 | Agnes made no comment on this statement ; yet all the while she was thinking , they should n't buy things that they ca n't afford , especially hats , from hard-working women like these . |
| 23 | They could not buy tickets in advance , so they queue like docile cattle . |
| 24 | People ca n't keep telephones , they ca n't indulge in the little white collar thefts of stamps , stationery and phone calls from work , they ca n't buy newspapers or maintain friendships . |
| 25 | That 's one reason children in the United States ca n't vote , they ca n't buy alcohol and ca n't stand for election . |
| 26 | GREENPEACE members are being urged to write to chemicals manufacturer ICI , saying they will not buy Dulux paints until the group stops making chlorofluorocarbons , or CFCs . |
| 27 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 28 | erm n they wo n't buy disks , they got about twenty sort of faculty heads |
| 29 | Nestle Foods Corporation said it would not buy Salvadoran coffee for 30 days in response to a consumer group campaign against the war in El Salvador . |
| 30 | Money may be able to buy flying time , but it can not buy skill — and it most certainly can not guarantee success in an aerobatic championship . |