Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb mod] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fayre 's organisers admit there were problems with noise , but say this came from a group of ravers who should n't have been there . |
| 2 | Anyone who could n't make the open day should go along to the Monday evening practice sessions . |
| 3 | Ironically one of those who could n't make it was the Conservatives ' first Asian Tory MP Nirj Deva , who is serving a life ban at the restaurant for becoming ‘ too exuberant ’ there seven years ago . |
| 4 | He had wanted the part of the young boy who could n't make it with his date in the first play , but he was a juvenile no more and Peter Shaffer had to convince him that it would n't work . |
| 5 | there was a lot of people who could n't make it . |
| 6 | The Press would never have been able to do its destructive job without the help of Labour figures who could n't pass a TV camera or journalist 's notebook without making a disloyal remark . |
| 7 | In any case , the instant she turned , smiled and waved to the young lifeguard ( who could n't control himself and burst out laughing ) , she was unaware of her age . |
| 8 | She did n't like being made to feel like an underage teenager who could n't control her emotions . |
| 9 | Turned back to Ormanroyd who could n't control it first time and that was enough for Forest to win it back . |
| 10 | His friends at the time knew better , especially the seemingly laid-back J Mascis , who could n't eject him from the group on a face-to-face basis . |
| 11 | Someone who could n't forget that it was nearly , but not quite , that height , was one Malcolm Ferguson who in 1878 became so incensed by Ben Lawers being declared officially under the 4,000-foot mark by means of new surveying techniques , he decided to do something about it . |
| 12 | Well , I was one of the people who could n't do it even if I was n't lifting a heavy weight . |
| 13 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 14 | Alright , well the They give you the answer for those of you who could n't do it . |
| 15 | Would you say that any District Council who could n't do that is irresponsible , as he has suggested himself ? |
| 16 | Even many voters who could n't bring themselves to endorse him last November are prepared to believe in what he calls the politics of hope . |
| 17 | sneering at hockey-players who could n't spell . |
| 18 | Who could n't drink , drown her sorrows . |
| 19 | Amiss directed ferocious attention towards his tray , giving a spirited impression of a man who could n't eat and listen at the same time . |
| 20 | Who could n't love something as cuddly as this . |
| 21 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 22 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 23 | My yesterday and said that well my cousin said they 've got ta pay twenty pounds but my friend said there is a those who could n't pay I du n no whether it 'll do any good but I should think some of them |
| 24 | ‘ So they thought that a lot of the people who could n't go to Knebworth would maybe come to the shows if we did them in London — Earls Court and places like that . |
| 25 | Hey , d' you hear about the fire-eater who could n't go anywhere without meeting an old flame ? |
| 26 | One thing 's for certain , Horton is a bollocks manager who could n't inspire fish to swim . |
| 27 | One day they lived entirely on bread-and-butter and tea , but the next morning Breeze received an unexpected half-crown from the sour old witch , Miss Martindale , who could n't cope with her spring-cleaning single-handed . |
| 28 | Ah we , we , her and I cheered on who , who , who could n't score , he never , they never got a score . |
| 29 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 30 | Rob Roy was played by David Holburn , the Duke of Montrose by Sir Simeon Steuart , the ‘ Dougal Cratur ’ by Alec Hunter , Sandy ( The Biter ) by Tom Morris , and Rab , Rob 's eldest son and apple of his sporran , by the athletic heart-throb Bob Celino , who could n't talk anyway . |