Example sentences of "it [vb mod] n't [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should n't go to their heads . |
| 2 | I 'm sure the council do a lot of good work and it should n't fall to me to propagate the views of the monopolistic , right-wing press . |
| 3 | It should n't happen to a doc ! |
| 4 | He knew he could get away safely because he had a reading back in London that evening , and it could n't lead to further meetings because he was going away soon . |
| 5 | American travellers became stranded in Europe and turned into expatriates or exiles in Henry James 's novels , shadowy amalgamation of foreign manners with shreds of familiar accents that were up to the narrator to decipher , but it could n't happen to her , not in 1928 , even with a crash . |
| 6 | How can you reach an acceptable level of data security and stop yourself falling into the ‘ it could n't happen to me ’ trap ? |
| 7 | THE IBM TRAGEDY : IT COULD N'T HAPPEN TO A NICER COMPANY |
| 8 | At the time of marriage there is almost always a sense of , " it could n't happen to us , " but once marital difficulty arises the consideration of divorce as a solution is of itself more easy . |
| 9 | And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them . |
| 10 | " It could n't happen to me and , even if it does , we have all got to die sometime " is a common self-justification that almost belies belief when it is considered that a life threatening " pleasure " is nothing more than a mere cigarette . |
| 11 | Last August the hospital had to close 26 beds because it could n't afford to staff them . |
| 12 | Last August the hospital had to close 26 beds because it could n't afford to staff them . |
| 13 | Surely it could n't apply to her ? |
| 14 | If you think it ca n't happen to you , think again — the horror stories are too numerous to discount . |
| 15 | It would n't relate to what it costs |
| 16 | I say it would n't relate to any accent in England anyway |
| 17 | " Do you think those people down there are really so different from us , Momma ? " he asked , keeping his voice low so that it would n't carry to his father 's ears . |
| 18 | It would n't do to be up and about too early , would it ? |
| 19 | It would n't do to be breathalysed . |
| 20 | And then he suddenly said , in a more natural tone , in an everyday tone that she rarely heard from him these days , ‘ And anyway , I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 21 | Patiently , he repeated , as though perhaps she had not heard : ‘ I thought it would n't matter to anyone , now the children are grown up . ’ |
| 22 | Er , it would n't matter to the leather trade as such or to any of the countries , er if there was no saddling and harness trade , and that goes for countries like erm , Britain and France and Germany and United States and so on . |
| 23 | It would n't matter to me who was manager of Everton at the moment , they would still be toiling to turn things around . |
| 24 | Bissell 's eyes never left Rohmer as he spoke , and Rohmer knew what the thing meant when it said it would n't talk to Gilbert anymore . |
| 25 | Exactly as had happened in Normandy forty years before , I was quite sure it would n't happen to me . |
| 26 | ‘ It would n't happen to my child . ’ |
| 27 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 28 | It would n't happen to be a Dornier bomber they suggest , the good old Flying Pencil ? ’ |
| 29 | Well that just er to be honest with you I mean after , after looking at it we , we could n't believe it really that , that amount of people could be affected by that , we obviously thought it would n't happen to us but after seeing that , at the age we are , I really think it 's a super plan and I 'm sure we 'll feel a lot better |
| 30 | " If she knows , them there 's nothing I can tell her , but the truth , " he said lightly , desperately hoping it would n't come to that . |