Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] n't [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mind was so wrapped round with skeins of my own distant past that I could n't immediately come to grips with the demands of the present . |
| 2 | I could n't even go to the toilet without her . |
| 3 | And I could n't even talk to you about them . |
| 4 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 5 | I could n't ever go to the police . |
| 6 | I would n't even go to limbo , Bernard , because I know about Him and have n't converted : I 'll have to go to hell . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't just go to India . |
| 8 | So I would n't necessarily talk to them about conditions in the flats . |
| 9 | I would n't really talk to them anyway , but sometimes you needed to talk to somebody , or to sort something out . |
| 10 | told that it has changed , but at that time , and I know my feeling was left that if I was raped I would n't never go to the police . |
| 11 | seven thousand seven tho , seven now I ca n't even stretch to ! |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't really afford to , but what the hell ! ’ |
| 13 | I think the problem with a clear remit I ca n't really come to terms with that , precisely , competitive . |
| 14 | I mean I wo n't even talk to myself am I ? |
| 15 | I wo n't even agree to having you partnering me at all these functions I have to attend as part of the job — and I 'll take whatever trouble you try to make for me — if you carry on treating me as you have been doing . |
| 16 | ‘ I wo n't ever go to church again . |
| 17 | The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech . |
| 18 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 19 | She could n't even write to her , lest her letters be opened by that two-faced ugly bitch of a matron . |
| 20 | He might be amazingly good to look at , he might be brilliant company , he might possibly be an amazing lover , though she could n't truthfully testify to that in depth , but jokes and … and sex were n't everything . |
| 21 | One died recently , but she could n't ever come to terms with the fact that her house had been burgled , and that the er , that some of her most valued contents had been taken . |
| 22 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 23 | It was in some figure you ca n't even relate to . |
| 24 | I mean you ca n't , you ca n't go any , I mean you ca n't even go to the Bridge for er , erm , a meal under a fiver so |
| 25 | I might just as well pack up and go if you ca n't even listen to things reasonably ! ’ |
| 26 | You ca n't even superimpose to that extent cos they 're slightly different ca n't even superimpose that my fingers ca n't superimpose cos they 're slightly different . |
| 27 | Cos you ca n't just write to someone , you have to want to write to them really . |
| 28 | stop worrying about you know , losing any try and put a couple of pounds on if you ca n't then come to us and we 'll find out what 's wrong |
| 29 | You ca n't really dance to it but you can stomp to it . |
| 30 | ‘ She would n't even speak to her when I first rang your home . ’ |