Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't [verb] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , if we have a petition like they do on the counter in Welfare Rights in the Town Hall , I do n't think there be any opposition to that and the Libraries for the setting up of a P D S A branch , you know , I do n't see why , why we should n't give it a try . |
| 2 | Ch Chairman I , I , I , I would agree with Mr that we might er successfully change the order , but we ca n't er and should n't make it a condition of issuing that statement of conformity that Aida have done those things . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |
| 4 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What about your lean old arse — I could n't call it a bum in all conscience — grinding away on the saddle of your bike ? ’ |
| 6 | Mind , we would n't want it every time |
| 7 | ‘ There 's something I 'd like to tell you , ’ he began slowly , ‘ That is , if you would n't think it an intrusion . ’ |
| 8 | It would n't do it a lot of good , no exactly . |
| 9 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 10 | ‘ I like it , ’ said Lili , ‘ though I would n't wear it every day . |
| 11 | It do n't get done without it 's me what does it , and I ca n't do it every day with them buggers throwing stuff all over the carpet . |
| 12 | Mind you , if you ca n't do it the weather will automatically do it for you , unless you plan to take a pneumatic drill into the garden with you in December . |
| 13 | because she was in pain again in had it strapped up again said come and see me in a week see if it 's any better but erm she 's injured it but not er you know it 's obviously she ca n't move it a lot that way which is what 's effecting her , but mind you once she gets back on her bike again , as it 's cold weather |
| 14 | I 'm sorry , Dad , but I ca n't see it the way you do . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , he ca n't use it every day . |
| 16 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 17 | Well , you ca n't call it a crime , can you , looking the other way in a cafe when somebody 's nicking your vehicle from a lay-by ? ’ |
| 18 | You ca n't call it the league cup can you ? |
| 19 | I ca n't believe it the way they 've got that house . |
| 20 | ‘ But I can promise you I wo n't extend it a moment longer than is necessary . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't care how good the idea is , I do n't like you and wo n't give it the time of day . ’ |