Example sentences of "you could n't [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 3 | You could n't work in the quarry , you could n't go through the gate in the quarry without being a union man , in the old days there . |
| 4 | You could n't go on the heath and train horses up after half past nine . |
| 5 | But you could n't go to the doctor 's until surgery time , that were six o'clock you see . |
| 6 | Well , they 've had , they 've only had you must of been better or Miss Johnson would of said you could n't go to the public |
| 7 | He ate and drank with relish , pointing out a fishing boat leaving Sligo harbour , remarking how Rosses point across the bay had safe bathing while here you could n't stand in the water without feeling the currents pushing the sand out from under your feet . |
| 8 | Went down to play pool once and I ha two pool teams in there and you could n't move in the place . |
| 9 | You could n't tell by the way he performed . |
| 10 | I took you both in and , you could n't see across the room ! |
| 11 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 12 | ‘ You could n't see into the office from the kitchen ? ’ |
| 13 | No you could n't live on the interest . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , ’ she added slyly , ‘ there 's no reason why you could n't look after the children . |
| 15 | ‘ Unless there is more , something you could n't put in the written message . ’ |
| 16 | I had to go round the other night , Saturday night , and you could n't get through the door . |
| 17 | Busy , you could n't get through the streets for charabancs and charabancs in them days . |
| 18 | You could n't get in the Band of Hope . |
| 19 | You could n't work with the lights you see |
| 20 | You could n't work in the quarry , you could n't go through the gate in the quarry without being a union man , in the old days there . |