Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [not/n't] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this is what the other blacksmiths had done : they 'd got hold of the horse 's hair and the horse could n't bear it to be touched . |
| 2 | And we 're also going to set up our own site , which we 'll be able to carry on on a daily basis throughout the year , so obviously the schools ca n't do it during the holidays . |
| 3 | hoping the wind would n't catch it like a sail . |
| 4 | Poor kids ca n't help it of course but |
| 5 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
| 6 | Part of their mission was to mobilize popular support for Franco , but who was to say that Falangist purists might not mobilize it against him ? |
| 7 | But Alexander could not hold it against the Edoni , local tribesmen , which may have given the Athenians the idea that they could move in and plant a colony ( 465 ) . |
| 8 | Yet , for all the sadness she was suffering now , Shannon could n't find it within herself to wish it had all never happened . |
| 9 | Gabrielle attended the opening night , the play toured the country — although the citizens of Eastbourne did not have the pleasure of it because the local council would not allow it to be staged unless the title was changed — and the West End beckoned . |
| 10 | And she hoped Nigel would n't take it as a slur on his driving . |
| 11 | Emily willed her daughter to show the right amount of gratitude , she prayed that the girl would n't take it for granted . |
| 12 | ( Safeway ca n't get it in store till June . ) |
| 13 | ‘ People do n't seem to understand that a hypnotherapist ca n't do it for them , and neither can any other magic ingredient . |
| 14 | My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there ! |
| 15 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
| 16 | ‘ Came in the morning 's post , but the postman could n't get it through your letter-box so he brought it round to me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Well , Phena wo n't hear it from me ! |
| 18 | Nutty dare not discuss it with her . |
| 19 | Often someone who wishes to use the toilet may not find it within easy reach or be able to get out of their chair in time . |
| 20 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
| 21 | This was unusual , he almost never talked while he was working , but maybe he sensed that Jed wanted the silence filled and knew that Jed could n't do it on his own . |
| 22 | Yet Seb could not find it in his heart to dislike Nahum Plunkett . |
| 23 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 24 | When the archbishop heard this he pretended that the king would not allow it to be done ; the pope , fired with the zeal of justice , ordered the archbishop in virtue of the obedience owed to him , not to delay longer in carrying this out or he would find himself suspended from his priestly office and his suffragans released from obedience to him . |
| 25 | Similarly , the newly recruited engineer who six months previously was poring over the computer printout of a great new turbo-jet test run trying to find out why there was a short-fall in the power output will not find it at all easy if his first job is with a little four cylinder piston engine . |
| 26 | Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain . |
| 27 | Indeed , the enormous catalogue — whose evident production problems will not prevent it from becoming an oeuvre de base — is the reverse of chauvinistic , with French scholars distinctly under-represented . |
| 28 | It can not be partly certain because the tenant can determine it at any time and partly uncertain because the landlord can not determine it for an uncertain period . |
| 29 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |
| 30 | All your suggestions may not make it into our pages , but they find a place in our hearts … |