Example sentences of "he [modal v] n't [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's his 'eart , you know , miss , so he should n't strain himself in any way . |
| 2 | He must n't strain himself at all . |
| 3 | He decided that he could n't tell her about this . |
| 4 | Even now he could n't stop himself from making a comic routine out of it : looking at his fingers , his face screwed up in disgust , pretending that he 'd found something unspeakably revolting in the depths of his pocket . |
| 5 | He could n't stop himself from shuddering . |
| 6 | ‘ Eric was so surprised he could n't stop himself from crying . |
| 7 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 8 | Uncle Mosse had wanted to be dead there , and since he could n't achieve it for himself , his clothes had done it for him . |
| 9 | He could n't distinguish her from the darkness , but any lingering doubt that she might belong to the dream from which he 'd risen was dispatched as her hand went from his mouth to his bare chest . |
| 10 | He could n't throw him to the wolves of his colleagues at the Factory . |
| 11 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 12 | People who wanted information from him were noting his silence and making their judgments accordingly ; his life seemed to be funnelling down into a pit like so much waste water , and yet he could n't stir himself to the right kind of action . |
| 13 | He was rather cool with her , since drinking was n't much fun if he could n't stir it between the two women . |
| 14 | He could n't do nothing about it ! ) |
| 15 | Luke Scott meant nothing to her ; he could n't do anything to her if she refused to let him . |
| 16 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 17 | He must always have known he could n't do anything with me . |
| 18 | People kept saying to him , ‘ Stop picking your nose , ’ and he could n't do anything about it . |
| 19 | It is widely believed , for example , that farmers contaminate watercourses every day in the normal course of their jobs ; but , as an officer from a rural district put it , ‘ I would n't take action if he could n't do anything about it . ’ |
| 20 | Oh he could n't do anything about it ? |
| 21 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 22 | Oh this is this is you here is it ? the other side of the , cos I know when we tried to take photo 's off John , tried to take photo 's of John on the television because he could n't do it with all the flash or . |
| 23 | He could n't do it to Donald . |
| 24 | He was told he could n't do it by his forceful parents . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He knew he could n't do it in Barcelona , so perhaps that 's why he took drugs . |
| 26 | He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went . |
| 27 | He could n't admit it to Pam , but he was more than a little disturbed by the fact that the Triad enforcer had escaped Springfield 's dragnet , after having almost killed Grant . |
| 28 | He could n't disgrace himself in front of this woman . |
| 29 | He could n't confess it to Florrie ; he could never talk about it to anyone except Josh , who had been there with him — and he was not on very good terms with his brother , these days . |
| 30 | A short time later he could n't prevent himself from asking whether she did n't love him just a little . |