Example sentences of "n't [verb] it " in BNC.
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1 | she would n't chain it up , and it got hit and killed on the erm road just outside the Post Office was n't it ? |
2 | ‘ But it 's my time , ’ I said as I stood up , ‘ and I ca n't spare it . |
3 | It 's like saying , please do n't tell , please do n't broadcast it to the world , I can get hurt . |
4 | He said : ‘ But you could n't laugh it off , could you ? |
5 | Do n't dip it in your damson gin , another local treat . |
6 | That 's something that we do have to work on and I ca n't emphasize it too strongly . |
7 | yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see . |
8 | So do n't treat it as if it 's a harmless filler . |
9 | Even though it was billed as a friendly , Tottenham did n't treat it that way . ’ |
10 | so many of the teachers that teach it are far too embarrassed to broach the subject sensibly , you know , and they just pass it on and so kids do n't treat it sensibly . |
11 | The thing is , the trouble with that is when you try and understand or argue about something like that you ca n't treat it as a work of art cos it is n't it 's a functioning building |
12 | We wo n't treat it as just another theft . |
13 | And we have the technology for nuclear power , yet again we do n't know what to do with it , we have n't developed it , we 've just left it and we 're creating nuclear power stations and we still have n't even decided what to do with the waste . |
14 | Erm and she ai n't received it yet . |
15 | They have n't received it . |
16 | And er we have n't had it , we have n't received it yet . |
17 | Is that potato all over the floor there , do n't tread it in the carpet yes it 's potato round you |
18 | But so I mean I think the case for Regional Government is definitely there and I 'm surprised by Councillor , I 'm surprised that you said your group is n't seeing it . |
19 | She had n't guessed it would land her in the thick of a family feud . |
20 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
21 | Siemens Nixdorf is in as bad a way as IBM , and only a couple of years behind Bull , and that simply because the German public sector still has n't realised it 's crazy to pay $50,000 or more per MIPS for computing power . |
22 | She knew she was overdressed for the occasion but had n't realised it would make her look both predatory and incom-petently so , since one of the main adult sports at Chris 's school was trying to get that nice Major Maxim remarried . |
23 | Or perhaps she was falling apart already , she thought a little wildly , and she just had n't realised it . |
24 | There 's a letter I really ought to get written tonight — I had n't realised it was quite so late , and I can get it off by first post if I do it now . ’ |
25 | ‘ I had n't realised it had all taken so long — it was lunchtime when the alarm went off . ’ |
26 | I told her + she said that she had n't realised it was so bad . |
27 | I ca n't explain it more than that . |
28 | I ca n't explain it to you . ’ |
29 | I could n't explain it very well at the time and I still ca n't . |
30 | I ca n't explain it any further . ’ |