Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [modal v] not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I would n't change things for the world with him [ the child ] but how else can you do it ? |
| 2 | I mean I ca n't stand Rik what 's his surname Maio ? |
| 3 | And granddad does n't li want people to see him sort of you know when he has to get up and walk about and go to the loo with the door open and I mean it 's not so bad for us because we 're all related but it 's awful for You know I mean I ca n't imagine Jody or Jessica or Alison or anybody liking it very much . |
| 4 | Well , I looked a bit of a sight , but I thought well , well , you know , what else can I do , I mean I could n't take clothing to get changed in to . |
| 5 | When I say I ca n't see people I think it 's the lighting but there is a sort of a I ca n't recognise people by face . |
| 6 | Does not he have a powerful point when he says : ’ The new system is run by accountants who do n't have to sit across the table from the patient and say I can not treat you' ’ until the new financial year ? |
| 7 | Shame I ca n't tell Cal . |
| 8 | ‘ I suggest you should n't use words you do n't understand . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |
| 10 | Pity they ca n't record video on this it would be quite amusing . |
| 11 | Many insurance companies say they wo n't cover properties where tenants are on housing benefit . |
| 12 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 13 | The families of those shot at dawn , still hope that Ministers who say they wo n't rewrite history , may yet change their minds and give every victim of the great war , the same respect . |
| 14 | The RUC and Army Press Office say they can not confirm reports circulating within the security forces that single 7.62 shells were found after both attacks . |
| 15 | Many families do n't have a car and some say they can not afford taxi fares . |
| 16 | The Tigers say they will not contest elections until there is peace . |
| 17 | DENTISTS say they will not leave patients in pain if they are forced to take action in a cash row . |
| 18 | But some retailers say they will not raise prices until after Christmas . |
| 19 | The girls who sign up for fashion 's survival course say they could n't imagine life on the other side of the camera . |
| 20 | Beyond that , Softlab is n't giving anything away : US rules say it may not discuss talks until agreement is won . |
| 21 | So agriculture will have to play a role in that and therefore we want to increase agricultural output and in order to do that you want to protect the middle and rich peasants who are the most efficient producers , or I E managerial farms if , if they are more efficient , you want to , if you want it would not make sense to take land away from rich peasants in order to give to poor peasants when rich peasants might be more efficient producers . |
| 22 | I was glad to hear Lord Belstead say he would not use internment . |
| 23 | It goes without saying that it is not £75,000 in respect of each but the total earnings ’ figure which must not exceed £75,000 . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I hope you wo n't think Brownies are nuisances any more , Mr. Olinton , ’ said Heather sternly . |
| 25 | Not that particular I hope you wo n't tell mummy our secrets anyway . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope you would n't use language like that in New Zealand , young lady , ’ said the Brigadier . |
| 27 | I think the general concept that we is that we do not want to erm envisage we hope we will not envisage proposals which generate a scale of development erm which is quite clearly not related erm to the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 28 | I found it an impressive programme and I hope it will not lead Mr Heseltine to conclude that chess sets are less harmful potentially than television sets . |
| 29 | Well I mean you ca n't have rules without a police force , can you , and since there 's no poets ' union from which you could be expelled , clearly whether there are any rules depends entirely on the poets themselves and their readers , and everybody knows that until about the end of the nineteenth century almost all poetry was written in regular metre and regular patterns and , except for blank verse , in regular rhyme , and that this is no longer so and now you would either be deliberately old fashioned or you would have some special purpose , I think , if you wrote your poems in traditional rhyming schemes . |
| 30 | I better walk on tip-toes to right well , you know now let's just give , you know , I mean you ca n't see Zane 's bum . |