Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue . |
| 2 | " You should n't do it at all . " |
| 3 | Belinda Hazel , 31 , said : ‘ Police should n't chase them at such speeds — then it would n't happen . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You sound as though disasters on the other side of the world should n't concern us at all , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 5 | But I could n't leave it at that . |
| 6 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
| 7 | My leg had gone completely to sleep and I could n't feel it at all , but I managed to hobble to the door , collecting fourpence out of my wallet , and down the stairs to the first landing where the telephone was . |
| 8 | Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’ |
| 9 | She said she 's absolutely brilliant she said you could n't fault her at all . |
| 10 | I could n't stand chemistry anyway , could n't understand it at all , the atoms and the neutrons and all that . |
| 11 | She looked sad and Jenna could n't understand it at all . |
| 12 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |
| 13 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
| 14 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
| 16 | Edge on , you could n't see it at all . |
| 17 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 18 | The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible . |
| 19 | I suspected about his thieving , but I could n't prove it at that stage . |
| 20 | She could n't turn it at first ; she fumbled and wrenched and then made herself try again , without forcing . |
| 21 | No , she could n't help them at all . |
| 22 | ‘ Could n't help it at first , but we 've become friends . |
| 23 | She could n't remember it at all . |
| 24 | Oh , no I put a six where a five should be , in my pin number , that 's all I did , but I just , I just stood there and my mind just completely went blank , I could n't remember it at all . |
| 25 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 26 | I could n't believe it at first : I 'd been so careful . |
| 27 | I could n't believe it at first . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps we need n't bother him at all . |
| 29 | You need n't do so you need n't complete it at all there 's no hard sell . |
| 30 | You should hit him on the head , see some blood running — would n't stun him at all . |