Example sentences of "they [vb mod] n't [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they could n't leave them all standing outside . |
| 2 | Finally , they could n't stand it any more . |
| 3 | For the long journey to the Pole , they needed a lot of food , and they could n't carry it all with them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | age of six months that they could n't handle me any more . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well they told , they , they told us that we could n't get i they could n't get us any |
| 9 | ‘ They detonated an explosive device next to one , and it disintegrated into so many pieces they could n't find them all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I they would n't give you any points . |
| 14 | Well they would n't cover them all but erm I see what you 're getting at . |
| 15 | They would n't do me any good with my Service I grant-you that . ’ |
| 16 | It 's one of the advantages of a bar , they ca n't bug them all . |
| 17 | But they ca n't ignore them all the time . |
| 18 | This means they ca n't pay her any rent , so she ca n't pay the mortgage . |
| 19 | They ca n't hurt you any more . ’ |
| 20 | Oh they ca n't give me any more . |
| 21 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 22 | The staff there are trained to spot suspect packages , but with millions of letters and parcels to deal with , they ca n't see them all . |
| 23 | I mean , they ca n't have it all ways ! |
| 24 | They ca n't have it both ways . |
| 25 | Well they ca n't have it both ways if they can afford to save money they can , but if they do n't , then stay in the centre |
| 26 | Well I ai n't got any but they wo n't give me any ! |
| 27 | ‘ They wo n't give you any grief in the next few days , ’ he said . |
| 28 | At the health centres in the country , the first thing they ask you is if you 're using family planning and if you are n't , they wo n't give you any medicines for your children . |
| 29 | yeah we put it in the Leeds for , well they said they wo n't give you any money because Leeds have n't sent the cheque back . |
| 30 | And they wo n't play it all in Germany ? |