Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all we need is a TOP Time-Out to find a solution to a problem , we should n't set up an Improvement Team . |
| 2 | Just as Paul Gascoigne was overcome with emotion at England 's World Cup exit in Italia '90 , Cantona could n't hold back the tears when he was joined on the chat show sofa … by his grandmother . |
| 3 | But I could n't set up an ideal control system . |
| 4 | At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step . |
| 5 | ‘ He did n't like none of it , so he sort of copped out , gave up eating one fine day , till he could n't stand up no more , could n't do what he was told on the airfield . |
| 6 | ‘ He could n't go out the front door to play without being mugged . ’ |
| 7 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 8 | Could n't make out a damn thing from either one of them . |
| 9 | He heard two men arguing , but with water lapping in his ears he could n't make out the words . |
| 10 | Maggie glanced at her alarm clock , but could n't make out the time . |
| 11 | Although Maggie could n't make out the exact words , she knew they were from both sides . |
| 12 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 13 | He tried to speak but she could n't make out the words . |
| 14 | At first , her eyes still full of tears , she could n't make out the figure . |
| 15 | But not so deafening that she could n't make out the anguished cries of : ‘ Wheee … |
| 16 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 17 | She saw the Jaguar parked there but could n't make out the identity of its occupant . |
| 18 | Someone was yelling , but Christine could n't make out the words . |
| 19 | She could n't make out the expression on his face as he spoke , and in a way she was glad that she could n't . |
| 20 | Also I could n't shake off the imprint of The Fat Controller 's locutions . |
| 21 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 22 | The thrust of his invasive tongue was unbelievably erotic … it was frightening , and exciting , and even the grim memory of Mortimer could n't shake off the shivers of reaction in her stomach . |
| 23 | Firing blanks LEE CHAPMAN and his Leeds team-mates could n't break down the Stuttgart defence as they began their European campaign in Germany last night |
| 24 | She could n't walk off a boat in mid-ocean . |
| 25 | Well , I think a lot of what happens in the academic world is , and my guess is the fundamental reason they get away with it , is that young people wo n't buy much , spending their own money on it , and I think if they were , you could n't serve up a lot of the crap that passes for higher education today . |
| 26 | I could n't think up a lie , despite all my recent practice . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you sure you could n't move over an inch or two ? ’ |
| 28 | You could n't close up an Irish house without the weather getting into the fabric . |
| 29 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 30 | ‘ Could n't let down the guv'nor , ’ Bob said cheerfully . |