Example sentences of "they [modal v] not [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not find it , they may not find it impossible to change contracts but it will become increasingly harder for them to do so . |
| 2 | I 'm a car owner who 's actually thinking of selling my car because I do n't use it much in Glasgow I do n't need to , I can actually walk to work and to come to somewhere like Edinburgh tonight I would much prefer to use the train , but I think we could have much more adequal plans to do with pedestrianizing city centres so that cars were banned from them altogether , they could bring back trams which are much less in terms of pollution , they might not make us big profits for the company 's but they are a very good way , we , a lot of European cities still use trams . |
| 3 | So they could n't leave them all standing outside . |
| 4 | Finally , they could n't stand it any more . |
| 5 | For the long journey to the Pole , they needed a lot of food , and they could n't carry it all with them . |
| 6 | Well it holding it in pawn , waiting for somebody to ask him to have a drink , and invariably somebody would but if they did ask him they 'd always ask him back next time you know if they could n't do it this time . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |
| 8 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 9 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 10 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 11 | Well they told , they , they told us that we could n't get i they could n't get us any |
| 12 | ‘ They detonated an explosive device next to one , and it disintegrated into so many pieces they could n't find them all . |
| 13 | They could n't keep it airtight , of course . |
| 14 | I could see them clearly in the light of the foyer but they could n't see me cloaked in the anonymity of Armstrong — and what more anonymous than a black London cab ? |
| 15 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 16 | Of course , they would not make it simple . |
| 17 | But they would not leave him alone . |
| 18 | He had asked a great many questions of the exiled Court and he hoped , he said earnestly to Oisin , that they would not think him inquisitive . |
| 19 | He claimed that tournament judges had openly declared they would not place him first because he was ‘ queer . ’ |
| 20 | They did , however have unrealised expectations about the number of clients for whom they would need to provide paid support workers even though they predicted that they would not find it necessary to provide such carers for ail clients . |
| 21 | He had n't wanted to sign anything , but they had said they would n't give him any money unless he did , so he 'd pretended to read the papers carefully and then signed them . |
| 22 | There 's a nice story about my , one of my favourite presidents , I told you last time , Theodore Roosevelt , Roosevelt got very frustrated with congress so he sent the American navy , he had no money , they would n't give him any money , so he sent the American navy to the Philippines and he said to congress if you want them back again you 'd better vote some more money cos they have n't got any fuel erm which is a fairly odd way of proceeding one might think . |
| 23 | I they would n't give you any points . |
| 24 | Well they would n't cover them all but erm I see what you 're getting at . |
| 25 | They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’ |
| 26 | It 's one of the advantages of a bar , they ca n't bug them all . |
| 27 | But they ca n't ignore them all the time . |
| 28 | This means they ca n't pay her any rent , so she ca n't pay the mortgage . |
| 29 | They ca n't hurt you any more . ’ |
| 30 | Oh they ca n't give me any more . |