Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [modal v] n't [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | A recent suggestion that he ca n't DJ irks the most . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 , |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | Well you 'll have to server , cos I ca n't server I 'm hopeless at it ! |
| 10 | books , and you could n't sort of swop the |
| 11 | Most women in London work on the theory that if you ca n't microwave it , only the ethnic minorities can cook it . |
| 12 | ‘ The attitude should be : ‘ If you ca n't win do n't play ’ . |
| 13 | You may be fit and fast but if you ca n't scrummage or drive a lineout , they you 're no good to anyone . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | And they could n't sticks |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ But I ca n't Nana , the river too high just now . ’ |
| 19 | I do recall something of it now , but I ca n't details . |
| 20 | Yeah , but I ca n't sides than that . |
| 21 | An' I wo n't git the chance , if we 've got half the fuckin' NYPD an' the CBS Newsnight cameras lookin' on . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ A major misconception is to treat IT as a department but you ca n't hive it off , it has to pervade an organisation and be built into marketing , sales , finance , production and so on . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , but you ca n't dice about like that , ’ Joanna said boldly . |
| 24 | But you ca n't sort of turn round to Hannah and say Hannah , you 've got B O ! |
| 25 | But you ca n't Mr Mallards , can you ? |
| 26 | understand the meaning behind the sentence but you could n't word for word . |
| 27 | Erm because I would n't sort of finished till quarter pa |
| 28 | Actually erm I 'm not really into it at the moment because I ca n't sort of make myself get in there , you know ? |