Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I mean you 've got to stop and think I ca n't carry any more .
2 I wanted to touch her and make her better but I realised I could n't do that .
3 And I fear I can not answer that question to anyone 's satisfaction .
4 I mean I do n't like , I mean I would n't do that to I mean that 's out of order you know .
5 I mean I would n't have any feeling
6 Well I mean I ca n't say enough for the people in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary , I mean they 've got a great burns unit there and I mean er er I think the plastic surgeons and what knot are about they must be some of the best in the world .
7 Yes , I mean I ca n't see much more than that can I ?
8 I just think she 's going to have to go and buy a dormobile , I mean I ca n't see any other way round it .
9 As some of Mr. Gould 's descriptions appeared to me brief , I have enlarged them , but have always endeavoured to retain his specific character ; so that , by this means , I trust I shall not throw any obscurity on what he considers the essential character in each case ; but at the same time , I hope , that these additional remarks may render the work more complete .
10 Do you know I ca n't understand that !
11 I got instructions off you to be able do you know I could n't do that timer for love nor money .
12 Darius is struggling to finish his , and he 's smearing it round the bowl so it looks like he 's ate it , and I say I ca n't eat any more because I got to stay sober tonight .
13 And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills .
14 Mm , very funny yorkshire pudding , that 's one of the things I , say I should n't eat that is on that , those yorkshire puddings , but I 'm having a holiday today
15 She ought to know I would n't do that .
16 Look will you promise you wo n't open that .
17 Now the , the initiations are controlled by the elder men who have all , all the wives and if you do n't behave and join the club and conform to what th the crown elders expect , you wo n't get initiated and i if you do n't unless you say you wo n't get any wives and the guys who are doing the initiating the initiated are the very same guys who have all the daughters .
18 They say you should n't do that .
19 ‘ We knew that despite what they promised we would n't get any real control , ’ comments Gilbert Hernandez .
20 But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study .
21 They say they wo n't believe that .
22 Experts from the world 's biggest wildlife hospital say they ca n't reach many of the seals , which are dying on inaccessible rocks .
23 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 ?
24 Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse .
25 As I say it would n't make any difference would it ?
26 He wanted to yell for joy but when he tried he could n't get any sound out .
27 Mr Smyth , Annie 's godson , vowed : ‘ To the day I die I will not let this go . ’
28 And I mean I would n't I mean it 's no way , even Sid says I would n't drive all the way up there to see them .
29 She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank
30 He says I would n't mind another one but not gas-fired .
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