Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the first round of the Regal championship the likely highlight , the meeting should n't lack interest for this series has been a winner from the start . |
| 2 | You could n't take responsibility for living bodies , blood that can flow , nerves that can actually feel . |
| 3 | " But I could n't take responsibility for them , " Mr. Mendez said . |
| 4 | Nature was blooming and burgeoning , but poor Karen could n't get gravid for love or money . |
| 5 | A minute or two later Pat said he could n't keep height for lack of power and we would have to ditch . |
| 6 | ‘ Could n't play squash for an hour . |
| 7 | A they could n't er they could n't get er th they could n't provide accommodation for all the hundreds that they were , you see . |
| 8 | She was sorry … terribly sorry … but she 'd had to tell about her visit to Melissa … she hoped it would n't mean trouble for her . |
| 9 | Dr Johannsen told us all about the work you do , about how you would n't take payment for it , and you so hard up and all . |
| 10 | He would n't dare scream for help if I robbed him . |
| 11 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 12 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 13 | She would n't have supper for a start . |
| 14 | Now he would n't have time for either . |
| 15 | I ca n't carry equipment for a youth club on my bicycle , so Paul used to pick me up in his car . ’ |
| 16 | After a tenacious run through ‘ Ca n't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man ’ — a rather average ditty by PE 's high standards — Chuck D thankfully reappears , prompting the S1Ws , now dressed in standard military uniforms , to unleash a synchronised black power salute . |
| 17 | After a tenacious run through ‘ Ca n't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man ’ — a rather average ditty by PE 's high standards — Chuck D thankfully reappears , prompting the S1Ws , now dressed in standard military uniforms , to unleash a synchronised black power salute . |
| 18 | ‘ I gave him my heart , and he destroyed it , so I ca n't feel pity for him . |
| 19 | They ca n't claim money for these . |
| 20 | ‘ Ca n't use Finn for me puppets again , ’ he grumbled . |
| 21 | Well , at least you ca n't lose remission for escaping from a loony bin . ’ |
| 22 | And you ca n't get compensation for that . |
| 23 | It 's best to finish work on a Friday because you ca n't get pension for any day of retirement that comes before your first payday . |
| 24 | Emmie said , ‘ I ca n't ask Dad for money for a vet . |
| 25 | All these references to sweets are enough to ‘ brainwash ’ any young mind , and I ca n't help wondering how mothers cope when their children ca n't have sugar for medical reasons . |
| 26 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 27 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 28 | I ca n't say touch for touch how we became lovers because , really , we had been ever since he came into the room and found me still there , waiting and pretending . |
| 29 | But now British Rail has told her it ca n't find room for her 20-inch wheelchair , and unless she finds herself a smaller one she 'll have to make alternative arrangements . |
| 30 | I ca n't find time for you , |