Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting at the two children talking when they should n't during assembly rather than praising the other two hundred for sitting quietly is typical of a pre-occupation with failure . |
| 2 | she should n't of dam well bought seconds tiles should she ? well I mean if you buy what do you expect ? |
| 3 | I 've had a look at the , should n't onto Ken , is n't it . |
| 4 | The dining-room has been fitted up ( but she ‘ could n't for goodness gracious tell why ’ ) in the ‘ middle-aged style ’ , and the drawing-room , supposedly her province , has become a kind of . |
| 5 | As well as the silence we could n't of course help noticing the bruises . |
| 6 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 7 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 8 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 9 | or touching it and that pad should be big enough to cover the wound , so you should something , overlaps , alright , and then if you find , if you unwrap the roll a little bit further , you do n't want to unroll it completely , your see that if while you 're using it in practice you need to roll it up again backwards towards the back of the bandage like so , we 'll roll it up again , backwards and when you get to the bandage you just fold the bandage up around the long end and wind the short end round it firmly and there it 's ready for use again in practice , you would n't of course do that for real would you ? |
| 10 | No you would n't of mind |
| 11 | Well I would n't in case it gets stuck in here in your mouth . |
| 12 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 13 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 14 | ‘ You would n't by chance be going into Colchester , would you ? ’ |
| 15 | Drive Lace is of course knitted in a totally different way from Brother 's fine lace ( and you ca n't of course take a Brother fine lace card and use it to knit drive lace ) . |
| 16 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 17 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 18 | My Lord erm , er one ca n't of course draw conclusions from one market to the next , they are all different certainly is a self regulatory market is different from a futures market |
| 19 | You ca n't call that you ca n't over call if ai n't called a |
| 20 | And if they say you ca n't at school well alright close you eyes and count , pretend there are some fingers there like that . |
| 21 | Well I ca n't at night . |
| 22 | The next one is er got a meeting on it er I think the airlines are going on a very much a co- ordinated thing er I think most people are probably in agreement with this size eight exemption , make a group specific because really the idea when they put this original proposal in about the size of aircraft was to protect things like the and troops that are shall we say and I think most people would go for that line of thinking because as put in there , why the hell should something again on Cambridge when we ca n't on Stansted but it was really designed to protect certain things . |
| 23 | Cos the juniors , remember the juniors ca n't on terrace . |
| 24 | Er but , Collieries as they became , they did n't acc That was Lancaster , they did n't accept er the old unions , so they erm they belonged Both I ca n't on Friday night I used to the Methodist 's chapel to pay the old union subscription , and to the West to pay 's . |
| 25 | The better the angler though , the higher number of ’ chance ’ pegs there are , possibly as many as 25 in the hundred ( although I ca n't off hand think of too many venues that are quite that good ) . |
| 26 | And he ca n't round shop after , you 'd be stuck , and I mean , he . |
| 27 | Well you ca n't in Sainsbury 's . |
| 28 | And it ca n't by definition be about sexual liberation simply because it duplicates and exploits those same power relationships . ’ |
| 29 | A disaster ca n't by definition last too long . |
| 30 | So I held his hand all the way and mum was there and I said you 'll be alright dad I said do n't worry about it I said er , we 'll be here when you come out , he said yeah alright , I 'm alright , so as the surgeon came out he said look Mrs he said I 've seen your daughter , yeah , I have to say this to you he said it 's a fifty , fifty percent chance that John will come back from the operation , operation OK and he said it 's a one hundred percent chance he wo n't without surgery of course he do n't know anything , got his little cap on |