Example sentences of "n't [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The manager ca n't justifiably desert either of his regulars at the moment but knows that if he walked the street and canvassed the fans there would be only one answer : bring on the Frenchman ! |
| 32 | All I know is that any , any sight , any sight person who watches television does n't forcibly go out and re-enact it . |
| 33 | Well , they do n't literally explode , but they are gusseted and expand dramatically , taking the sack from 60 to 75 litres . |
| 34 | But they do n't literally try to deform the old physical object into the new one . |
| 35 | I ca n't suddenly change and come up with really hostile questions . " |
| 36 | And , and , erm just as the changing headmastership of , of a , a big school never alters the character of the school for years and years because it 's like a ship which has got momentum going through the water , you ca n't suddenly change a thing with so many passengers , erm so many tonnes and so on . |
| 37 | Also it 's a role that tends to creep up on people — you do n't suddenly wake up one morning and find you are a carer . |
| 38 | You do n't suddenly go blind for the duration of a ‘ phone call and are , therefore , prey to all sorts of visual distractions — people walking past the window , someone coming in to see you and so on . |
| 39 | She sank down , hugging her sides , praying that Tom , Amos and Oseri would n't suddenly appear from behind a boulder or a fold in the hillside . |
| 40 | Do n't worry , I sha n't suddenly present you with a bastard grandchild . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ What 's so funny ? ’ he asked , hoping that her mood did n't suddenly break into hysteria . |
| 42 | Shadow Chancellor John Smith , dismissed Mrs Thatcher 's so-called economic miracle as a mirage , but admitted things would n't suddenly improve under Labour . |
| 43 | An older person who has been accustomed to being in charge does n't suddenly stop feeling responsible for other people just because he or she has gone into a Home . |
| 44 | Do n't suddenly stop moving at the end of a training session . |
| 45 | I know it sounds a bit sick in the head , but it 's not , it 's not really sick … anybody who does daring things , they could n't suddenly stop doing them … |
| 46 | Death does n't suddenly arrive below a particular threshold lung area ! |
| 47 | She does n't suddenly think , ‘ Oh my God , I look like Liza Minelli ! ’ |
| 48 | but you do n't suddenly turn round and go the other way do you ? |
| 49 | ‘ The first episode was very popular , but the show did n't suddenly take off — which any programme does n't in four weeks . |
| 50 | A Lotus Elan provides more grip and a Peugeot 309GTi offers more communicative steering , but for a combination of fine throttle adjustability , knife-edged balance , the ability to stay accurately on line , and high levels of security — cut the throttle sharply and it wo n't suddenly swap ends — there 's little to touch the Corrado . |
| 51 | People do n't suddenly say things out of the blue , without a context . |
| 52 | If voters say they want politicians to care , how do you show it — you ca n't suddenly burst into tears . |
| 53 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 54 | And although that wo n't suddenly get Gower reinstated in the England team , it would send shock waves through the previously sedate world of English cricket . |
| 55 | Do n't suddenly increase the amount of exercise you do , or become over-exhausted . |
| 56 | Everybody 's version of mothering is unique — you do n't suddenly lose your personality as soon as you give birth , and turn into ‘ A Mum ’ . |
| 57 | ‘ It does keep things tidy : you do n't suddenly lose your best men because of an unexpected scandal . |
| 58 | I ca n't obviously give my Noble Friend an assurance that this will be done , but in due course er I would very much hope that it would be and when it is my Noble Friend will then be able to refer to that Act with total simplicity and find his way through it and with all the original Acts amended as they were and will be after this Act has been passed . |
| 59 | But I mean if you 're puking up everywhere you ca n't obviously go into work can you ? |
| 60 | Yeah , she ca n't obviously talk to her husband about it because George is her ex-husband and he |