Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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1 | I it is not envisaged I mean I must n't mislead you at all I want I want to be understood on this issue . |
2 | He must n't strain himself at all . |
3 | " You should n't do it at all . " |
4 | You should n't do it at . |
5 | Belinda Hazel , 31 , said : ‘ Police should n't chase them at such speeds — then it would n't happen . ’ |
6 | ‘ You sound as though disasters on the other side of the world should n't concern us at all , ’ said Scarlet . |
7 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
8 | Erm , we , we could n't nominate anyone at the A G M , no one was willing to do it . |
9 | But I could n't leave it at that . |
10 | One girl whispered that she could n't tell anyone at home , because they used drugs . |
11 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
12 | Sometimes our bodies and minds seek excuses to experience griefs that we may have put aside or denied because we could n't face them at the time . |
13 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
14 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
15 | He added : ‘ Ferzana wanted to watch TV and could n't do it at the family gathering . ’ |
16 | My leg had gone completely to sleep and I could n't feel it at all , but I managed to hobble to the door , collecting fourpence out of my wallet , and down the stairs to the first landing where the telephone was . |
17 | Derby winner Dr Devious also raced freely before weakening into 10th and jockey Chris McCarron , who replaced regular rider John Reid , reported afterwards : ‘ I could n't control him at all . ’ |
18 | She said she 's absolutely brilliant she said you could n't fault her at all . |
19 | I could n't stand chemistry anyway , could n't understand it at all , the atoms and the neutrons and all that . |
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 | She looked sad and Jenna could n't understand it at all . |
22 | so , you know , I looked under the bonnet , I could n't understand it at all tt , er , so I eventually got a lift and got a ride down into Malham and er , went in the telephone box there |
23 | Edouard was sent back home , they could n't have him at work looking like that . ’ |
24 | It 's like , with Sharon Stone , even at the end she was still dependent on Michael Douglas , like , when he was going she was crying and she could n't kill him at the end cos she loved him so much and , you know what I mean , so no , Body of Evidence , it 'll probably have a rubbish end and she 'll probably marry the lawyer or something , but it was still good to see her beat , tying a man up , putting candle wax on him and shit . |
25 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
26 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
27 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
28 | Edge on , you could n't see it at all . |
29 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
30 | 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 . |