Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must n't have dogs down the council . |
| 2 | They are trained professionals but they should n't lose sight of the importance of getting children to accept the discipline that comes with education . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've always said , my dear Kit , that we should n't play pirates on the high seas any longer . |
| 4 | It should n't have happened.Anger over the chemical fire that closed off a town . |
| 5 | You should n't hit children on the head : Father says so himself . |
| 6 | I do n't see why I should n't look people in the eye ; I 've as much right to walk the street as they have , have n't I ? |
| 7 | Lou Macari signed a three year contract with Celtic this afternoon then told Scotland Today he would walk away if he could n't bring success to the club in that time . |
| 8 | He could n't tell direction in the fog . |
| 9 | Roger From the Practice could n't tell emphysema from the common cold . |
| 10 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 11 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 12 | Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list . |
| 13 | ‘ A Busby Berkeley lineup in front of his bed could n't wake Sam in the middle of the night , ’ Clare said . |
| 14 | It was a good thing the cameras could n't take pictures of the way she felt , she thought , and smiled inside herself . |
| 15 | Er the water was coming in and you could n't put mats on the floor . |
| 16 | Could n't put mats on the floor . |
| 17 | He could n't see curvature in the third dimension . |
| 18 | The girls who sign up for fashion 's survival course say they could n't imagine life on the other side of the camera . |
| 19 | I could n't find Basil at the prize-giving . |
| 20 | I ca n't remember the wages they paid us but we could n't get work in the shops anyway . |
| 21 | I could n't get CNN in the glorious Econo Lodge , but I wondered what had become of Arnett and Shaw and Holliman . |
| 22 | ‘ You see , we could n't get gigs in the city of Cork , so we used to play these places around the county . |
| 23 | We were sat in the North Bank ( could n't get tickets for the Leeds end ) , and in the second half we had a good view of the amount of space that the Arsenal forwards were getting , it was unbelievable . |
| 24 | We could n't get seats in the main tent . |
| 25 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 26 | ‘ You would n't want pussy on the table , as Sister Dew might say , ’ said Mark , making a feeble attempt to remove her . |
| 27 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 28 | I mean I would n't change things for the world with him [ the child ] but how else can you do it ? |
| 29 | I also would n't place art at the centre of life . |
| 30 | You would n't buy beef with the spinal cords still in . |