Example sentences of "n't [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on .
2 This is n't about some petty artistic vendetta .
3 You do n't about this cappuccino is I do n't understand is that here Maxwell cappuccino is
4 Pupil leakage is n't about those puddles occasionally found under infant children it 's about losing children to neighbours — it 's not so wet but equally unpleasant .
5 Anyway I have n't about any of the newfangled ideas .
6 Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity .
7 Another award-winning garden by the Pershore College of Horticulture based on the mythological King , Midas , who was given the power to turn everything he touched to gold ; though this treasure is n't worth much — it 's concrete sprayed with gold paint .
8 Now they are flooded with the West European goods their recycling is n't worth any more .
9 When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of .
10 If you have n't , it is n't through any failure on my part to spread this particular story .
11 It was n't for many weeks after coming to Chesney that Peach ventured out .
12 Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself .
13 And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . "
14 ‘ She 'd be alive today if it was n't for that . ’
15 If it were n't for that bloody fire , you 'd never ‘ a ’ brought that damned woman and her brats to this house . ’
16 ‘ I would n't be a cook if it was n't for that .
17 Weenie would be normal enough , I think , if it were n't for that .
18 ‘ If it was n't for that poor bugger , I would be getting as pissed as a bishop 's fart in the Crossed Keys and you would be back in your decrepit church feeding that bloody cat or watching your bloody stars !
19 He then pointed to his helmet and was heard to say ‘ If it was n't for that I 'd be dead . ’
20 It 's cos I was n't for that .
21 Could n't for that could you ?
22 If it was n't for that I 'd I so , ca n't get what I should of done .
23 In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived .
24 is n't for all kids — some kids find it excruciating ; boring , meaningless and fruitless as well 'cos they 're not going to get anything .
25 No , no oh I agree people should n't let dogs foul on the pavement and in shopping places and things , cos it can be dangerous , but out in the woodlands if it was n't for all the animals we would n't have any green stuff , trees and bushes seagulls are up .
26 This is n't for any covert reason , it just happens that most of the BBC 's committee rooms are down there !
27 If it does n't for any reason , you have to dub in new matching background sound .
28 he was on , I mean it was n't it was n't for any reason it was just a
29 This would not be a problem if it was n't for another silly set of rules about what you must wear .
30 Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles .
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