Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All information available is necessarily historical but as the past is mainly a reliable guide for the future it is useful in helping you decide whether you should or should n't give credit . |
| 2 | My first big act of rebellion against cultural expectations of what an Indian woman should or should n't do was when I left home in the face of family opposition to go into higher education . |
| 3 | What right does any individual have to tell other people what they should or should n't do ? |
| 4 | What we do n't or should n't do , is to regard every County Farm as a sacred cow . |
| 5 | Well they do n't get the interruptions in the evenings , or should n't do . |
| 6 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |
| 7 | It 's not my place to tell you whom you should or should n't invite . |
| 8 | If Luke would n't or could n't walk away , she would have to be the one . |
| 9 | No one in racing is above ringing round for spare rides ; one great jump jockey was nicknamed ‘ Ting-a-Ling ’ because of his speed and skill in contacting trainers whose jockeys were injured or could n't do the weight or were simply out of favour . |
| 10 | No one was going to tell her what she could or could n't do , or where she had to go . |
| 11 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 12 | If we say we believe God is there and that he loves us but live as if he were dead or could n't care less about us , then the beliefs we presuppose in practice are out of line with the beliefs we profess in theory , and we are bound to doubt God eventually . |
| 13 | When Charles Darwin first explained the matter , many people either would n't or could n't grasp it . |
| 14 | That may be the norm , but , of course , there is also the abnorm when things go wrong , when the fire gets out of control , when , perhaps , the fire brigade has been over worked , or could n't find their way for cigarette smoke , or for all that saturated fat that clogged up the wheels of their tenders . |
| 15 | We used to send floppy disks to 1,000 sites and there were lots of problems — people lost disks or could n't find the work book . |
| 16 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 17 | " That he did n't know or could n't remember . |
| 18 | Or could n't remember . |
| 19 | you read the Guinness Book of Records or watch ‘ Mastermind ’ on TV or ca n't do your children 's homework or lose at ‘ Trivial Pursuit ’ . |
| 20 | So , I do n't see from Pearson 's point of view that , that a government of any complexion will alter what we can and er , or ca n't do in relation to our current er , holdings . |
| 21 | Do we get to the stage where you know you look at the word empowerment , do you change the , the use of the word empowerment because people are saying you know well that 's jargon and all that does n't work any more or ca n't do that any more . |
| 22 | Like at the moment where people do n't understand television sets , or ca n't repair them . |
| 23 | That , however , is very different from arguing that the introduction of PR or the demands of Charter 88 will at the very best , provide anything but the most marginal relief to those who are unemployed , without a home or ca n't pay the poll tax . |
| 24 | Well tell me what you think you can talk about or ca n't talk about in schools . |
| 25 | If you yearn to watch the late-night movie in bed , or ca n't bear missing your favourite soap opera while cooking supper , then you might think about buying a portable TV . |
| 26 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 27 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 28 | they need to , or ca n't remember third one it does n't matter . |
| 29 | You ca n't do your best when you ca n't move or ca n't breathe . |
| 30 | The campaign works indirectly by rumour to frighten people , and whatever they can or ca n't prove the threat is carried by word of mouth and claimants run for cover . |