Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] n't [vb infin] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I was contacted — by the consul in Monte — oh , I should n't tell you these things , but … ’ |
2 | ‘ Perhaps I should n't tell you this , but — but one of the walled gardens is locked up . |
3 | Half a gross on each board yeah , oh you could n't move away from your board at all and it was erm Mr his eyes seemed to be perhaps I should n't tell you this , but I 'm going to , it may be a bit humorous for you my er Mr used to send me out through the back way into street I think it is now , to wait for the paperman with a sporting book oh should I have said that ? |
4 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
5 | ‘ I could n't love him more than I do , ’ she replied . |
6 | Eventually , I could n't stand it any more . |
7 | ‘ I 've dropped out — I could n't stand it any more . ’ |
8 | He hit me a lot , but I suffered it till I could n't stand it any more . |
9 | ‘ I could n't stand it any more — hearing him howl , I mean . |
10 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
11 | I I could n't tell you that . |
12 | Er my favourite thing er well I could n't tell you that . |
13 | I could n't fit them all in . |
14 | I could n't fancy it this year , you know , but er |
15 | I would n't be where I am today if I could n't hold my own in a dog-eat-dog world . |
16 | It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more . |
17 | This meant that I could n't lead my own life at all ; when I complained about this to my husband he laughed it off . |
18 | ‘ I could n't give my own name , till I found out what that fellow was up to . |
19 | I was ill too but I could n't consider my own feelings . |
20 | Not that I could n't ring you any time while they 're here , ’ she added hurriedly , as if feeling guilty of being underhand while her parents were out of the way . |
21 | I could n't get them any closer . |
22 | I tried to say , ‘ I 've come in your caddie 's place ’ , but I could n't get it all out . |
23 | I remember doing a crossword once and I could n't imagine what this word was that I 'd got . |
24 | The target , he was already fidgety , I could n't follow him all day , not a target who was that sharp . |
25 | I 'd had enough ; I could n't take it any more . |
26 | Mrs Cann , 25 , who quit her job at the Unilift forklift company in Rumney , Cardiff , after two years , said : ‘ I could n't take it any more . |
27 | ‘ But in the end I could n't take it any more and told him to leave . |
28 | I could n't believe it both of them and they 'd smashed into each other |
29 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
30 | So imagine you were writing Jayne here J now it 's a very long name , Jayne and you have to put the title on there too , so I could n't put it all in capital letters on this occasion could I ? |