Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [modal v] not [vb infin] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I just ca n't do this with anyone else , because a long time ago I was raped , and my lover is the only man I could bear to touch me . |
| 2 | " … appreciated what you have said about not really meaning to offend anybody , I just ca n't square this version of accounts with that of your workmates , Steve , who insist , I 'm afraid , that you seemed quite serious about back-filling the canal with the tarmac allocated for laying on Colebrook … ah … |
| 3 | I 'm sorry but I just ca n't support this view , what about pride , team confidence ( just imagine what this victory would do to that — considering , correct me if I 'm wrong , but the 3 sides we have beaten away from home are shit , and we have also been on a crap run recently ) , and not to mention a place in Europe — this is a 2nd place 6 pointer . |
| 4 | And so you go back and you say to your brother I just can not give this , it 's impossible you see , well should we be like that ? |
| 5 | " I sure wo n't forget this malabar ride in a long while . " |
| 6 | I really ca n't believe this would be a problem as the only people who are likely to subscribe would be Leeds supporters , and they wo n't mind a ‘ bit of banter ’ at the expense of other clubs . |
| 7 | And I really ca n't say this enough times . |
| 8 | ‘ I really can not stand this . ’ |
| 9 | again , I mean I maybe should n't do this but I tend to take a very relaxed attitude to these things and if somebody wants to bring a pal or if somebody that would be interested I see it as P R for the B A I E you know |
| 10 | She just could n't cope this afternoon . |
| 11 | If you want Britain to stay the same then you probably wo n't like this manifesto . |
| 12 | Was it you probably wo n't believe this but I 've never seen a programme of Spitting Image . |
| 13 | If you really can not afford this payment talk it over with your teacher as most will help out if they possibly can . |
| 14 | You absolutely can not do this to me . |
| 15 | It 's part of the capping programme which we just ca n't make this year , and I think that 's erm that 's that saving . |
| 16 | Particularly where the subject is a plural personal pronoun no variation seems to be permitted ; but in our initial search for invariance ( cf. 1.1 ) , we still can not specify this rule as categorical with the same confidence as we can define a constraint on a phonological variable . |
| 17 | A spokesman said last night : ‘ We really ca n't discuss this . |
| 18 | Although we all knew there were risks , we really ca n't believe this has happened . |
| 19 | This is the opposite of RP ( where can is front and ca n't is back ) , so we plainly can not explain this back /a/ pattern by relating it directly to RP . |
| 20 | We simply can not afford this . |
| 21 | There 's nothing wrong with their immune system , they 're perfectly normal they just ca n't metabolize this one particular type of protein , so they have no milk , no fish , no meat , no cheese |