Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bunk beds should comply with the New British Standard BS 6998 , and remember — children under six should n't sleep on the top bunk . |
| 2 | The developers should n't block off the existing paths until the outcome of that , following representations from Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 3 | Well they could n't score in the Premier League last season which is why they came down , they still ca n't score . |
| 4 | She could n't stay in the small office with Roman 's lazy , taunting presence . |
| 5 | I started to feel I could n't stay in the same room as you . |
| 6 | I just could n't talk with the old bag next to us flapping her ears to catch every word . |
| 7 | You see , they could n't rely on the local beys not to forget it had been abolished . |
| 8 | Yeah , I mean what was nice in , in a way was that er I could n't go to the last meeting I was n't well , I had a cold er , what was nice in a way was that David who 's the general manager and the general manager from Pitlochry had come in , I mean in a way it was a classic case |
| 9 | I wanted to put a a morning on when I realised there was problems here just a morning an open morning which would of brought probably nine hundred thousand pounds into this building , in July I came in to try to see the Director of the playhouse I could n't go through the written way because I was waiting for exam date to come through . |
| 10 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 11 | Erm , well I I could n't speak for the latter two programmes cos I do n't know enough about the arrangements there but I have got a a fair amount of knowledge on both tornado and Eurofighter . |
| 12 | I was so disappointed that I could n't speak at the final whistle . ’ |
| 13 | When you have a very small , very select , very ladylike grammar school , joined with two rough and ready secondary moderns what basically happened in my view is that when they joined together the grammar school staff , or most of them , could n't cope with the rough and ready aspect the school they came to have . |
| 14 | The whining motor could n't cope with the long grass by the fence , and it melted the extension cable when Pa forgot to unwind it fully from its blue plastic drum . |
| 15 | I heard reports of scuffles outside the ground because the turnstiles could n't cope with the late rush — amazingly , the game was allowed to start five minutes early — while inside the stadium many Scots , including the wives and girlfriends of the players , were subjected to verbal abuse . |
| 16 | The computer in the head could n't cope with the extra distortions that would be introduced if the fish 's body were bending and twisting like an ordinary fish . |
| 17 | Most of all she could n't face Dane , could n't cope with the new pain that seeing him again must surely bring . |
| 18 | Levins died because Europe could n't compete with the Far East . |
| 19 | But he got frustrated because , although he was playing well , he could n't compete with the younger players . |
| 20 | At times , he could n't drink in the same bar as his new white team-mates but there were no barriers to him on the cricket field . |
| 21 | Oxfordshire could n't lose in the National Final at Nottingham on Saturday … number one seed Lizzie Jelfs from Banbury 's West End Club was playing the number two seed Claire Taylor from the Banbury West End Club … |
| 22 | ‘ Unless there is more , something you could n't put in the written message . ’ |
| 23 | My monthly insurance payment worked out at £18.20 , but I could n't qualify for the Denplan scheme until the necessary work had been carried out to make my mouth dentally fit . |
| 24 | He could n't see round the next bend , he must record , tapes were periscopes , his only chance , and the slow ink stolen and the wheels turning , and everything remembered , everything proved , he was whispering now , ‘ Why five , ’ he was whispering , ‘ is n't one enough ? ’ and a voice came back , a woman 's , Sharon 's , ‘ One what ? ’ |
| 25 | A heavyweight machine to cut the hard rock would sink in the soft sections , and a lightweight machine could n't cut through the hard rock sections . |
| 26 | And he volunteered to give a lift to anyone who could n't get to the annual general meeting in March . |
| 27 | I could n't get to the first part again and yeah that 's right |
| 28 | Before , I could n't get down the High Street for bricks and houses , but they 're not there now . |
| 29 | It all came to a head the day a fire engine could n't get down the High Street for parked cars . |
| 30 | We shift them down to the so they could n't get onto the cultivated land . |