Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must n't let these conversations go on too long . |
| 2 | ‘ You must n't believe all Lori says . |
| 3 | ‘ You should n't leave that door unlocked , you know , Bella , ’ said Marie . |
| 4 | The commission arrangement should n't leave either side resenting what the other is getting . |
| 5 | but even so we would like to think that erm that we can do the design work surely for the original tender figures , er and hope that our erm our drawings and er specifications are such that erm , and our site investigations are such that we should n't have major claims appearing on on our jobs . |
| 6 | We 're an all-volunteer force now so you should n't have any reason to run away . |
| 7 | And she did n't like going out with me any more because of the way they all stared at me anyhow , I could n't go most places looking like this , could I ? |
| 8 | And I took you in my confidence — something , incidentally , I do n't do lightly — because I could n't face another relationship based on misunderstanding . |
| 9 | It could n't do any harm to put it off until tomorrow . |
| 10 | Miss Cackle could n't expect ordinary guests to bring ladders with them , could she ? |
| 11 | She could n't understand this eagerness to forgive him , but it was definitely there . |
| 12 | At the time she 'd put that pass down to a reflex action of a man who could n't let any opportunity pass him by , but now she was beginning to have doubts that he was as shallow as she 'd first thought . |
| 13 | And if he could put up with humourless Hugh for three weeks in the sun , the family , who could n't have many jokes to look forward to , would be glad of a running commentary on their holiday by the well-known author of ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 14 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 15 | So you could n't have this plan paying out after four weeks , and at the same time , you 're still getting paid by your employer . |
| 16 | But when Jasmine was born they put Joan in a room by herself at the hospital so she could n't see other fathers cuddling their first-born as Bobby would have done . |
| 17 | and we could n't see any smoke belting down the corridor so we thought well oh ! give me my coat ! |
| 18 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
| 19 | Roman was n't the type to lose control over any woman , and he was so powerfully attractive that she could n't imagine any woman turning him down . |
| 20 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 21 | I could n't get other people to see the point of me . |
| 22 | Could n't get these earphones working . |
| 23 | I could n't get any rhythm going whatsoever . ’ |
| 24 | For the stations , railway stations because they could n't get any coal do you see . |
| 25 | ‘ Anne , ’ Christine said eagerly to the surprised Anne , ‘ did n't you say that your daddy could n't get enough mistletoe to sell this Christmas ? ’ |
| 26 | On the other hand , if he really had anything constructive to say to her she could n't allow phantom fears to deny her the opportunity of listening to him . |
| 27 | Decent people could n't allow these places to exist once they knew about them . … |
| 28 | And those who could n't obtain fresh fruit substituted vegetables producing carrot marmalade , marrow and ginger jam . |
| 29 | Most people wore black and those who could n't afford dark clothing managed to borrow some , and the men wore hard hats . |
| 30 | What 's worse , although one might start with some hunches in a mammalian brain , the anatomy of the chick brain is very different from that of mammals , and even now not well mapped , so I could n't afford inspired guesses derived from mammalian expectations — chickens hardly have anything worth calling a hippocampus , for example . |