Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [modal v] not do " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm saying this because GCSE includes a section on improvisation , and a lot of teachers ca n't do it ; they say they ca n't do it … |
| 2 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 3 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 4 | They say you should n't do that . |
| 5 | Only it may feel like such a disaster that , that they feel they ca n't do anything about it , er but you 're saying that that is n't , is n't necessarily the case ? |