Example sentences of "n't [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | No , what I mean is , we do n't double the amount , I 'm sorry we , were supposed to send six hundred . |
2 | The answer is nothing — great Champagne is without equal and you ca n't reproduce the unique climate and soil conditions of its birthplace anywhere else in the world . |
3 | One final observation : It is possible , although I could n't reproduce the effect on the three models made , that a switch-mode power system may oscillate or be unstable on open or very light loads . |
4 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |
5 | TO THE WOODS KEVIN MY GOOD MAN AND DO N'T SPARE THE HORSES ! ! |
6 | It has been the starting-point for many a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure — ‘ London Bridge Station , cabby , and do n't spare the horses ’ . |
7 | ‘ Ca n't spare the water , but by the time I 've finished cooking they 'll be sterile . ’ |
8 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
9 | And it does n't spare the blushes of Sean Connery , Roger Moore and the others who have been issued with the secret agent 's famous licence to kill . |
10 | In The Fourth Man , a 1979 film-noir -ish comedy about a homosexual writer , he highlighted a scene with two men kissing that does n't spare the saliva ; in Spetters , he knee-capped American audiences with his depiction of Holland 's teenagers and , in his sword'n'sorcery adventure Flesh And Blood , his damsel in distress Jennifer Jason Leigh is abducted and raped — and enjoys it . |
11 | I wo n't do defended cases because I ca n't spare the time , not because I do n't feel competent . |
12 | She was living hand to mouth and she would n't spare the cash if she could help it . |
13 | None of them came back , you see : the Americans could n't spare the trucks and the farms were n't allowed to use their petrol for anything but getting food to market . |
14 | Eventually she would train them to produce the kinds of designs she favoured , but for the moment , until she had her first collection down on paper , quite frankly she could n't spare the time . |
15 | Her mum loves it , her friends think the attention is great , but bosses at a firm of Belfast architects could n't spare the city girl the time off she needed for her modelling . |
16 | ‘ Ca n't help that , chief You got to stick to your four-set clause and I ca n't spare the energy to beam you up . |
17 | Ca n't spare the sheep . |
18 | She is , of course , renowned for her critical essays punctuated with cusses on the male of the species and does n't spare the blushes or the punches when exposing them to ridicule . |
19 | However , ‘ Mrs. Butler , one of the aged attendants ’ appeared before the committee , and said that she could n't bathe the females without help ; to which matron replied that there were no able-bodied female inmates in the institution to give such assistance . |
20 | Yet he knew , at least in this he was n't alone : the feeling , if it did n't pervade the camp , certainly pervaded his section . |
21 | But I was n't smelling the smoke . |
22 | ‘ I do n't broadcast the fact that I live in a castle . |
23 | It did n't emphasize the internationalism , it homed in on what it — correctly-saw as a Fleet Street preoccupation . |
24 | He had n't registered the two-tone scream of the car-alarm ; in much the same way , a countryman might be deaf to the cry of a rooster . |
25 | Now if the child can not interpret and relate the symbols to the animal , then he 's left wondering what the symbols mean , he ca n't relate the symbols to understanding that a cow is spelt verbally as C O W , and he 's left quite mystified , and he does n't know what we 're talking about . |
26 | The mere mention of the biting in Anna 's manuscript record of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ variants is enough to pull the reader back into The Possessed , and he ca n't experience the sudden fierce tug of that novel without realizing simultaneously that the whole ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter belongs elsewhere , to a different masterpiece . |
27 | I ca n't enjoy the good ones if I do n't experience the bad ones . |
28 | Situations vacant , in Westminster Press there was an increase in the south er , in volume terms , in the southern divisions , not in the northern divisions but then the northern divisions did n't experience the same problems with sits vac and are much more profitable . |
29 | They do n't experience the same problems socially or finding cultural events to which they can really relate . |
30 | For once it does n't treat the audience as idiots . |