Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 2 | ‘ Rose felt we could n't leave it until the morning . |
| 3 | My mum could n't stand it in the end she sa let's get back to bomb there ! |
| 4 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 5 | He explained he was having a dizzy spell and could n't make it to the doctor 's , so I drove him there . |
| 6 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 7 | She could n't decipher it in the pitch black . |
| 8 | You could n't tell it from the real thing . ’ |
| 9 | and we could n't eat it on the Sunday and |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Ferzana wanted to watch TV and could n't do it at the family gathering . ’ |
| 11 | Er you ca you could n't do it on the phone anyway It 's a case of out and er sitting with , having a coffee with the old guy . |
| 12 | There were so many mistakes I could n't do it over the telephone . |
| 13 | Hick , speaking as the England squad completed its pre-Indian tour preparations at Lilleshall yesterday , added : ‘ I wanted to know why my form in the one-day internationals was good , while I could n't do it in the Tests . |
| 14 | He was rather cool with her , since drinking was n't much fun if he could n't stir it between the two women . |
| 15 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 16 | He had set a pressure lamp on the Land-Rover 's hood before leaving the cabin but he could n't see it through the rain . |
| 17 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 18 | He just hoped they could n't see it from the stalls . |
| 19 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 20 | left and I cut it up this morning before you got up and I could n't cut it with the scissors ! |
| 21 | Dick said something , but she could n't catch it over the din from the engines . |
| 22 | but she said also that er , she 's made , she could n't get it over , I could n't get it over the houses myself |
| 23 | I would n't have minded but I could n't get it in the hole after that . |
| 24 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |
| 25 | Pauline 's is very nice where they live , Michael does n't bother taking his in , cos it 's the gap , well they could n't get it in the |
| 26 | ‘ What 's so urgent and private that you could n't discuss it over the telephone ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He said he came because he could n't discuss it on the telephone , but whether he really wanted to see inside the Post I ca n't say . ’ |
| 28 | The sign was peeling and you could n't read it from the other side of the square but the Three Towns knew who Whalbys ' were without that . |
| 29 | He could n't play it at the time , but it made some really great noises . |
| 30 | I knew everything , they could n't believe it at the hospital . |