Example sentences of "n't of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their skin 's all bumpy , like they 're cold , but they ai n't of course cos they 're dead . |
| 2 | As well as the silence we could n't of course help noticing the bruises . |
| 3 | It is n't of course . |
| 4 | She did n't of course . |
| 5 | While this is a useful image , it is n't of course how the machine knits . |
| 6 | It maddened Adam , his misuse of this word , which could n't of course be applied to guiding anyone on land , coming as it did from the Latin navigare and thence from navis , feminine , a ship , and agere , to drive or guide . |
| 7 | Drive Lace is of course knitted in a totally different way from Brother 's fine lace ( and you ca n't of course take a Brother fine lace card and use it to knit drive lace ) . |
| 8 | They did n't of course . |
| 9 | We do n't of course see the kind of thing that went on in Germany under Hitler , but you feel a disaster is waiting , another disaster of some kind is waiting . |
| 10 | or touching it and that pad should be big enough to cover the wound , so you should something , overlaps , alright , and then if you find , if you unwrap the roll a little bit further , you do n't want to unroll it completely , your see that if while you 're using it in practice you need to roll it up again backwards towards the back of the bandage like so , we 'll roll it up again , backwards and when you get to the bandage you just fold the bandage up around the long end and wind the short end round it firmly and there it 's ready for use again in practice , you would n't of course do that for real would you ? |
| 11 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 12 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 13 | He did n't of course , she won . |
| 14 | I says well we have n't come by the front door , which we had n't of course . |
| 15 | ‘ We do n't of course need to duplicate the police enquiries about Mrs … |
| 16 | Laura was n't of course , but you have to say that , do n't you ? |
| 17 | Reproductive success , we now know , and Darwin did n't of course , means passing on your genes . |
| 18 | Well , in the first place you do n't of course , because the , the manifest content may be totally innocent . |
| 19 | I wo n't of course . |
| 20 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 21 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 22 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 23 | My Lord erm , er one ca n't of course draw conclusions from one market to the next , they are all different certainly is a self regulatory market is different from a futures market |
| 24 | oh no , they wo n't of course . |
| 25 | It was n't of course , if it was I missed it |
| 26 | Oh right , so then this is n't of course the . |
| 27 | This is n't of course the only kind of fiction in America in this period . |
| 28 | I 'm rather advertising this because I think it 's important to understand that although , and I 'm sure you know , that there 's this constant war really between , it was n't of course a physical war , but certainly tension , and difficulty between the university and the city . |
| 29 | she should n't of dam well bought seconds tiles should she ? well I mean if you buy what do you expect ? |
| 30 | To the visible delight of Tory rightwingers , those who refused to vote for Mrs T are loudly accusing those who did n't of cowardice , or sycophancy , or both . |