Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried re-dialling two or three times , but either it was a long conversation or he could n't time it right to slip in between calls . |
| 2 | I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I could n't day in any other way — things that I had no words for . |
| 3 | Sewed my lips with hexes so I should not blaspheme against their godling … |
| 4 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that you could not edge in a word ! ’ retorted Theda . |
| 6 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 7 | Finally , there is is n't a plating feeder on the SK210 , so you can not plate . |
| 8 | But again , there is the other side to Beccaria 's version of the social contract mentioned in Chapter 1 — that we would not will for others what we would not will for ourselves — and Hart 's view that Beccaria 's position was sensitive to individual rights . |
| 9 | White House officials insist this is a misunderstanding ; US interest in the coup evaporated rapidly when the rebels made it clear that they would not hand over Noriega . |
| 10 | Predictably they will tell the adviser that they can not rehouse all those families and perhaps the tenant can contact the police . |
| 11 | Always check to make sure that electrical wires attached to the television or any other appliances , such as reading lamps , are well secured , so that they can not trip people up . |
| 12 | A recent suggestion that he ca n't DJ irks the most . |
| 13 | The acussed alledged that he could not forsee the harm he would do , and proceeded to argue that since he acted inavertently , he did not committ the offence . |
| 14 | But Selznick knew that he could not hand over the selection process to assistants . |
| 15 | But Neil he was gon na go down to Tesco 's but he is , Ipswich , ca n't get down here , so he ca n't sort of travel and you know what the hassle of having to take him and pick him up . |
| 16 | Yet his family was totally dependent on him , not just his brothers but his mother and his father , so he could n't buck the system ; the pressure to rein him back in and continue the status quo and what was making money won over . |
| 17 | Right , erm , yes , it 's for adults I think , and it 's such things as Leonard Cheshire Homes , er , and I ca n't thing of any other , |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll suck your dick and I wo n't stop/Till everything inside rises to the top I 'll swallow every ounce of that sticky cum/Cause that 's how a dick-suck should be done/Then your cum goes down my throat/And I 'm loving every bit and refuse to choke/No other girls will do the things I do/Now tell me/Is the pussy still good to you ? ’ |
| 19 | Well you 'll have to server , cos I ca n't server I 'm hopeless at it ! |
| 20 | It 's like , sort of thefts of motor vehicles , we can reduce the theft of the actual vehicle , because there are security devices now to do that , to make it harder and you can not odds somebody coming along the street , throwing a brick through a window and grabbing your cassette out . |
| 21 | books , and you could n't sort of swop the |
| 22 | She can not mother her child and she can not mother her mother ; everything she did inclined towards death . |
| 23 | Most women in London work on the theory that if you ca n't microwave it , only the ethnic minorities can cook it . |
| 24 | ‘ The attitude should be : ‘ If you ca n't win do n't play ’ . |
| 25 | You may be fit and fast but if you ca n't scrummage or drive a lineout , they you 're no good to anyone . |
| 26 | You ca n't hear a thing , deaf as the , deaf as a post , and does n't wear any thing , I feel it 's very one side conversation because he , he says all the talking and they ca n't muck in almost unbearable , cos she likes to talk a lot to and she could n't get a word in because |
| 27 | And they could n't sticks |
| 28 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 29 | Yeah the clock , the clock 's there I always get groups that say where 's the clock cos they ca n't sort of see where it is and I 'm sort of saying it 's the angle tell the time . |
| 30 | ‘ But I ca n't Nana , the river too high just now . ’ |