Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [not/n't] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The result was that very soon indeed afterwards my father came with a very sad but kind face in to the room where I sat alone and told me he was sure I should not do that sort of thing again .
2 And there was a funny silence and Dylan said that he 'd bet I could n't do that scream like that with a cigarette in my mouth and I shook off the centuries , stopped staring , smiled a little , noted that he had indeed monumentally screamed with a cigarette in his mouth and went stunned back to my crossword . ’
3 I got instructions off you to be able do you know I could n't do that timer for love nor money .
4 You see , cos they do n't say that , and anyone else who does n't , who does less than thirty five thousand pounds worth of , if Mrs down the street said , I could n't do forty pound , then they do n't have to pay that .
5 I could not do two things at once .
6 bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud
7 Yeah I ca n't do that bit either .
8 I ca n't do that word , I ca n't do that thing .
9 Oh I ca n't do that love I 'm sorry .
10 all the de you know , because they 've got the describers , whoever is in charge of the describers knows when they can spare people , oh no I ca n't do that week because we 've
11 I ca n't do that thing on Saturday ‘ ’ he said apologetically to Tim Reagan , who , having sacrificed one of his staff in the arrangement , was mildly suggesting a reciprocal deal .
12 I ca n't do that word , I ca n't do that thing .
13 I am sure you well remember saying ‘ I ca n't do that movement because I ca n't play for it ! ’
14 And I said to Chris , you know , I said to Chris yesterday , Are you putting in the production or have you put I ca n't do two jobs at once , I ca n't do two jobs at once and that was it .
15 And I said to Chris , you know , I said to Chris yesterday , Are you putting in the production or have you put I ca n't do two jobs at once , I ca n't do two jobs at once and that was it .
16 Inevitably there will be logistical problems ‘ I ca n't do this part because … ’ .
17 I ca n't do this crossword because I do n't know any American poets .
18 I was n't saying , no I ca n't do another television show , no I ca n't make another public appearance .
19 I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . "
20 being those things like well I ca n't do those tables
21 I ca n't do any storyboarding until Doris Arthur shows with the script .
22 and the squares for the blankets , I ca n't crochet though , I 'm no good at crocheting , I ca n't do any crocheting , I can knit but I ca n't crochet
23 As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in
24 I ca n't do any embroidery nowadays but I do , I sti I 'm never st er I 've never er stopped enjoying knitting .
25 He was almost cracking when she said : " I ca n't do any business unless he comes .
26 ‘ If I get unhealthy because I ca n't do any sit-ups , ’ he told Gina , ‘ it 's all your fault .
27 Frodo makes a clear and active statement of his own evil intention : ‘ I will not do this deed .
28 Turn that other glass drink it , I 've got to drink this down , oh I wo n't do another thing
29 I 'm the other spaceman baby But I can not do that mum .
30 and you find erm people like Lynn you know , bless her , who now , who is n't too bad when she 's not too bad and is n't too good when she 's not too good , you know , and it is such a very very Not only can you not put anything visibly in in common with everyone that 's got it , even the people that have got it ca n't say I can not do this period , they say oh well I 'm not too good now but maybe last week or maybe next week
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