Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She keeps giving me clothes — ; not this dear old awful thing , Mrs McPhee at home made this — and making me practise manners and the piano and I could n't tell her about last night , I could n't , I ca n't disappoint another person , not after my mother — ’ and Alexandra put her head down on to the slice of bread on her plate and burst into tears . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
| 3 | The driver could n't find him at first as only the top of his helmet was visible . |
| 4 | She could n't turn it at first ; she fumbled and wrenched and then made herself try again , without forcing . |
| 5 | ‘ Could n't help it at first , but we 've become friends . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I could n't believe it at first : I 'd been so careful . |
| 8 | I could n't believe it at first . |
| 9 | So if I was you Richard I would n't leave it till last minute , I a bit sooner in case the buses are not running . |
| 10 | ‘ We ca n't do it until next March , when we 'll have five years ’ trading figures to show , ’ Adam said . |
| 11 | One moment she 's kissing me , and the next she 's telling me she ca n't see me till next week . |
| 12 | We wo n't get it till next year . |
| 13 | They wo n't take him till next summer . |
| 14 | Oh he said , I wo n't see you till next Mon Monday I said now it 's Tuesday is n't it . |