Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] not [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 2 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 3 | Said Robert : ‘ I have 36 pigeons at the moment but they do n't all race long distance ’ . |
| 4 | In the act of conducting you made such inward exertions that you had not enough energy left to watch over the outward appearance . |
| 5 | So you would n't just push it all out , and how do you discuss new educational reforms if you have n't any idea about the original previous |
| 6 | Sometimes a clean break just wo n't work , where , for instance , there is n't any capital sum available for you to pay your wife and she has n't any job prospects ; then you may be saddled with having to fork out ‘ periodic payments ’ — the English term for alimony . |
| 7 | The poor man had obviously given up hope and I could tell by his apathetic manner that he had n't much faith in this latest ploy . |
| 8 | At the time when Shanti was preoccupied with the subject of identity , she expressed the thought that she had n't any choice in the matter : we had taken her whether she liked it or not . |
| 9 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 10 | He said they had to allow the Japanese to retain their arms because they had not enough men to collect them . |
| 11 | The fact that no one laughed out loud at this remark suggested to Charles that they did n't all share his view of the man . |
| 12 | It seems that once again local Tories are following the Central Office line if you have n't any credible policies of your own , rubbish everyone else 's . |
| 13 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
| 14 | Obviously popular , it survives complete ( or nearly so ) in sixteen manuscripts many of which divide the text into chapters although they do not all agree as to how . |
| 15 | There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear . |
| 16 | All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another . |
| 17 | We started gambling with scraps of papers because we had n't any real money and matchsticks were forbidden . |
| 18 | You can add secretive for good measure though he had n't much to be secretive about . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She rings up and complains to James that she has n't any money and she wants this and she wants that . |
| 20 | As they were descending , Reynolds said , ‘ I get the impression that you did n't much rate Jenner . ’ |