Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] n't [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't stay for one day . ’ |
| 2 | Of course , I could n't reach for my gun . |
| 3 | This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment . |
| 4 | The they used to the Non-conformists whether or not I could n't speak for the Church of England but er there 'd be a lot go you know i in the evening there 'd be several hundred at every one of these places , and there was , there 'd be , ooh four or five Non=conformist places in in . |
| 5 | Erm , well I I could n't speak for the latter two programmes cos I do n't know enough about the arrangements there but I have got a a fair amount of knowledge on both tornado and Eurofighter . |
| 6 | For example , I knew I could n't squat for fifteen minutes on a bed or a floor . |
| 7 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 8 | I mean I could n't walk for any great distance with it but I 'm going to have taxis . |
| 9 | I could n't stop for long , not just before the show . |
| 10 | Appearance fits , though I suppose in court I could n't swear for stone-cold certain . |
| 11 | I could n't sleep for three days — I 'm not exaggerating . |
| 12 | ‘ But absolutely a disaster , I could n't sleep for thinking about it . |
| 13 | After the excitement I could n't sleep for about three nights . |
| 14 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 15 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 16 | I 'm sixty-one as it is and , truth told , I could n't work for one of them . ’ |
| 17 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 18 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 19 | Oh I could n't say for that . |
| 20 | I could n't say for certain what our smallest listed building is , but I suspect that some old wall-mounted pillar boxes will be strong candidates ! |
| 21 | I could n't wait for the pictures to come out , I was so excited to see them . |
| 22 | great , I could n't wait For the life of Mrs |
| 23 | fit state — But I could n't wait For |
| 24 | He looked and sounded now so unlike Old Red , the reputed scourge of Benedict 's , that I could n't wait for my holiday to end to let me get back and tell the girls . |
| 25 | ‘ I could n't wait for you , boy . |
| 26 | I could n't wait for tomorrow . |
| 27 | I could n't wait for the air raids . |
| 28 | I could n't wait for the bell to ring at four in the afternoon when class would end and I could bang my lid for the last time before running all the way down the Whitechapel Road to help out on the barrow . |
| 29 | My monthly insurance payment worked out at £18.20 , but I could n't qualify for the Denplan scheme until the necessary work had been carried out to make my mouth dentally fit . |
| 30 | I could n't read for ten minutes before . |