Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] n't [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spectrum 's PCB is screwed onto four plastic pillars using the screws that came out of the Spectrum so do n't drop any of them ! |
| 2 | There 's some justification for having Green Link as a separate publication but even that is is under question in the coming twelve months because our circulation just does n't warrant all of these publications . |
| 3 | But Edward just did n't seem interested . |
| 4 | Captain Barton MacLane just did n't like private eyes . |
| 5 | I might try to read , but the words often do n't make much sense ! ’ |
| 6 | The old , the poor , the sick , the homeless and the animals certainly do n't deserve another five years of Tory rule , but the I 'm all right Jacks have made sure they are getting it . |
| 7 | She claimed to have come from a different school but her story somehow did n't ring true . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ There is not one club in Britain that can be compared to this one — the trouble is people in England just do n't realise that . |
| 9 | The committees ‘ never get to the leading edge because large companies usually do n't understand new technology , so they drag their feet on committees until they are able to catch up . ’ |
| 10 | The few hill-walkers and climbers that fancy a weekend away in February certainly do n't bring enough custom to keep the hotel owners in beaten copper coffee tables and onyx standard lamps . |
| 11 | There are some household name companies whose boards still do n't get monthly results . |
| 12 | Alison Kraemer simply did n't seem conscious of it . |
| 13 | The Spanish growers may be doing their best to provide tomatoes acceptable to the English market but evidently English varieties and the Spanish soil and climatic conditions just do n't suit each other . |
| 14 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |
| 15 | It has not reneged on any of its claims , but , with the box having become a symbol of the garbage crisis , it concedes that " our customers just do n't feel good about it " . |
| 16 | Blue Biros just did n't look right . |
| 17 | Oliver please do n't do that . |
| 18 | Oliver please do n't do that to the flowers . |
| 19 | There was never any real cover for dividends , and the property values now do n't cover one-fifth of his borrowings — from a couple of pension funds and various other institutions as well as from the bank . |
| 20 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 21 | And so many people still do n't understand that . ’ |
| 22 | As er set out in in my written submission , Selby District clearly does n't support either of the er alternative methods of of calculating em employment land . |
| 23 | Erm , one of the things we had on the stall is erm this erm application form for N H S charges , now many people including probably people here do n't know that erm , you do n't have to be on supplementary to get help and Ann knows actually , er if your getting any rent or rate rebate and you fill this in , you 'll get some help , in some cases quite considerable help , and I suggested that we had some of these on our store room , got some from Welfare Rights , and they went like hot cakes , because most people did n't know about this , so following that we shall have , we shall keep these on our stall and I 've more or less suggested that Lisa on Age Concern in the Leah Manning should have them there because she 's constantly getting enquiries on that , so she is going to do that . |
| 24 | Most people simply do n't make enough time to have physical time together , even it it 's just lying next to each other cuddling . ’ |
| 25 | In a part of Chile where half the region 's income goes to 10 per cent of the population and a quarter of all the people regularly do n't have enough to eat , the day to day problems of scraping together an income are common . |
| 26 | That 's fine but sentence six Florence teased Dougal , and did so Brian too does n't sound right but notice that 's exactly what you would get if you could substitute the proform for a subject verb construction and then it would mean Florence teased Brian too . |
| 27 | Sooner or later you 're going to find out that life just does n't work that way . ’ |
| 28 | Scottish players simply do n't understand that . |
| 29 | This was closed three years ago — Peter Craine , Rabbit 's vice president for marketing and sales , explains that the firm then did n't have any national language support for its MS-DOS products ; also , Unix — Rabbit 's favoured environment — had n't taken off in quite the way the firm had expected . |
| 30 | ‘ We get sick of hearing the excuse ‘ I did n't stand a chance ’ , I always think the kid definitely did n't have one and that makes me angry . |