Example sentences of "they [vb mod] n't [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when he returned to the college , he told the students they must n't let blindness get in the way of their creativity . |
| 2 | Yeah well I mean they should n't wind people up I mean she 's just . |
| 3 | He ran his hand the length of her spine , making her aware that he wanted her as badly as she wanted him , and for a wild moment she could see no reason why they should n't make love . |
| 4 | I mean , if someone 's in prison , they should n't tell people news like that . |
| 5 | There 's no reason why they should n't have stuff sent by sea . " |
| 6 | And that they should n't have names at all , but simply be numbered from one to sixty . |
| 7 | Agnes made no comment on this statement ; yet all the while she was thinking , they should n't buy things that they ca n't afford , especially hats , from hard-working women like these . |
| 8 | So not a good day for City , but they should n't lose heart , as the score line the home side , and on another day might well be reversed as they were not that much difference in the goals . |
| 9 | They are trained professionals but they should n't lose sight of the importance of getting children to accept the discipline that comes with education . |
| 10 | Can now , can we actually move on a bit because , that has been very valuable what you said , but in fairness to Mr Maxwell it also has to be said does n't it that up until he stole these assets er this process of throwing organisations , peoples monies into a spin dryer and pulling them out of different sort of sequences was something he regularly did and we 've had witnesses to say how well he did manage the funds and how they grew , whether when they should sell stock and when they should n't sell stock and so on . |
| 11 | When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire . |
| 12 | They might n't win Brightside , adds Doreen , but they 're hopeful of Hillsborough and getting good returns in Hallam , where reigned South Yorkshire 's lone Tory . |
| 13 | The apprentices er did n't start before six o'clock in the morning of course they could n't start apprentice before six o'clock in the morning until he was maybe in his last year then it would be either one o'clock or two o'clock in the morning . |
| 14 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 15 | Smith was omitted from the team , with Mark Sunley and Sean Gregan paired together in defence , but they could n't stop Preston winning 2–0 . |
| 16 | If they could n't beat Greycoats by skill , they might stand more chance by guile , and one needed to learn all one could about the opposition . |
| 17 | We knew we were safe , so long as they could n't spot individuals and target them for later , and in the darkness the Danuese let the malais know what they thought of them . |
| 18 | They could n't make head or tail of me , could n't think what was wrong with me . |
| 19 | They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office … |
| 20 | They could n't make judgements or try to inflict order on their world , but simply flowed with it . |
| 21 | He could n't speak Spanish and they could n't speak English . |
| 22 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 23 | Several other students were concerned about their inability to understand what was being taught in the lectures ; a commonly expressed view was that they could n't take notes and follow what was being said at the same time . |
| 24 | They could n't get work and my poor old Dad went miles round these outside villages , on a a old lady 's push-bike , trying to find work . |
| 25 | And doing afterwards I did t er See the war came and they could n't get people . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Certainly not , and I think that that 's one of the things that causes people to be to switch off when you mention computers and think ‘ oh , I ca n't understand that ’ because their experience at school perhaps was that they could n't understand mathematics anyway . |
| 28 | He had gone on about lofts. people in New York , apparently , lived in lofts , presumably because they could n't afford houses . |
| 29 | She had n't heard , of course ; they could n't afford newspapers . |
| 30 | They felt so grateful to the CWPR for protecting them — even though they could n't afford pigswill and potato peelings for their supper anymore . |