Example sentences of "they [vb mod] n't [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THEY SHOULD N'T make 'em like this anymore . |
| 2 | The adoption should n't affect her , they should n't take her into account , but Kegan thinks they might want her token agreement , so I 've got to handle this right . |
| 3 | They could n't hold one with a defendant who was just a mangled lump of flesh . ’ |
| 4 | They said oh they could n't do nothing about that but er did n't think they could do much about it . |
| 5 | Even the GenTech wizards , Dr Zarathustra and W. D. Donovan , could only reconstruct a ruined face ; they could n't do anything about a shredded psyche , a ruptured personality , a raped memory … |
| 6 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 7 | So , they could n't do anything in the meantime . |
| 8 | Oh no they could n't do anything like that . |
| 9 | they ca n't actually do this , if they 're going to do it and we 're certainly not encouraging them to do it , but if they 're going to do it then there 's no reason why they could n't do it with adults . |
| 10 | One commonly heard complaint from relatives is that ‘ I was told she was too disturbed for the council day centre as they could n't stop her from wandering out ’ , yet ‘ The doctor at the day hospital said they only took short-term cases , people who could get better and move on . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ … they could n't stop it by confiscating Highlander . |
| 12 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 13 | Some of them had to walk because you they they could n't take them in in in any conveyance at all because er it was over what they call the viaducts , you know and the big rushes and reeds , I told you about a chap hitting them did n't I ? |
| 14 | told that I was trying to get an appointment at the asthma clinic but they could n't get one for fortn another full week . |
| 15 | They had handcuffs on me and I 've still got marks on my hands — you can see — where the handcuffs were put on so tight that when I got to the station they could n't get them off me . |
| 16 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 17 | Pauline 's is very nice where they live , Michael does n't bother taking his in , cos it 's the gap , well they could n't get it in the |
| 18 | He went on to said he wanted to talk about the hunting debate , erm , it occurred to me to wonder why they could n't find anyone in Stonygate in favour of hunting , I mean perhaps there are n't any people in Stonygate in favour of hunting . |
| 19 | I knew everything , they could n't believe it at the hospital . |
| 20 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 21 | They could n't understand it in English , but they 'd hear their names to these kind of bouncy 60's tunes and loved David . |
| 22 | ‘ They could n't sell it after what happened , ’ said Preston as they sat in the car together at the end of the cul-de-sac . |
| 23 | And er they could n't bury her in the in the Kirkyard . |
| 24 | I guess they could n't afford one on his church salary . |
| 25 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 26 | He just hoped they could n't see it from the stalls . |
| 27 | Edouard was sent back home , they could n't have him at work looking like that . ’ |
| 28 | They could n't have a season without him , but quite definitely they could n't have one without Busacher either . |
| 29 | So erm he 's phoned up me your money cos he said they dare n't put me in court you see . |
| 30 | I think they dare n't take it to Road at Nottingham for some reason . |