Example sentences of "they [vb mod] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 2 | If , for example , we knew what animals with neocortices could do that species lacking them could n't do we would know something about the cortex without having to ablate it in a single animal . |
| 3 | If you let somebody else get stuff on your book , and some of them could n't pay it , you know , you 've no means of paying it . |
| 4 | Then each one of them could n't help noticing that the others seemed to be walking faster and faster . |
| 5 | Some of them could n't afford it . |
| 6 | Some of them could n't afford i You had I think you had to put something in . |
| 7 | All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name ! |
| 8 | He knew that four of them would n't come for anything he might have done . |
| 9 | This was a Regency crescent , its big houses a shuffled deck of peeling stucco and expensive restoration , and even the meanest of them would n't come cheap . |
| 10 | Even if they were all trying like mad , a lot of them would n't get jobs . |
| 11 | So that he ca n't see what 's going on , cos she thinks if he do n't see what 's going on he wo n't bark , but he cries but I mean she should n't have them there , she 's never here so she should n't have them , I mean look at the trouble Alan had to get Jessie , because they worked , but Emma goes home every lunch time to see to Jessie from the bank , but I mean the woman one of them would n't let her have a dog , one kennels , which is how it should be , but I mean this one breed those three herself so , yeah I mean if you breed dogs yourself and you have three in the house of the same breed , what the hell do you want an alsatian for , as well but the whole point is she do n't have them as enjoyment , she do n't have them as company |
| 12 | Endless manuscripts , half of them ca n't spell either . |
| 13 | No one in the room is excluded , as they might be from a maths activity that some of them ca n't do ; or from a games session , where physical prowess is such an important factor . |
| 14 | ‘ Most of them ca n't do any more than that because their eyesight is bad . ’ |
| 15 | Hairshafts are totally dead , so cutting them ca n't send messages to the hair roots . |
| 16 | What is disappointing is the way that the speakers in them ca n't seem to keep the sound together , even at low power ratings . |
| 17 | Most of them ca n't wait to get into the boats and onto the water . |
| 18 | The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page , not that I 'm not grateful for anything I can get , is that the people who send them ca n't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook , ( see below ) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel , have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment . |
| 19 | but erm , and yet there 's some of them ca n't live without them . |
| 20 | I send them to you now in a pill-box wrapped close in paper that they may n't chink . |
| 21 | ‘ They ought n't to wake , ’ he said , worriedly , ‘ but you never know . |
| 22 | ‘ They must n't go there , then ! ’ |
| 23 | They must n't go down this road again , it could only lead to disaster . |
| 24 | Ca n't think why and I ca n't think why they should think they must n't go on Pan Am cos Pan Am are a target |
| 25 | And , of course , not sleep together , which they must n't do if they 're living apart either . |
| 26 | ‘ They must n't forget there 's a recession going on and we 've just got to be realistic about money . ’ |
| 27 | I believe in them and they must n't start thinking it has gone . ’ |
| 28 | Molly did n't remind her that they must n't arrive too early because S. Kettering had told them not to . |
| 29 | The living room is the room where they must n't take their toys . |
| 30 | She says that they must n't become complacent . |