Example sentences of "[verb] n't [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sort of application has n't yet reached the small shops where really the proprietor of the shop himself is only too well aware of when the baked beans is running out . |
| 2 | Paula says that she would love to have children but has n't yet found the right man to have children with . |
| 3 | Also , he has n't actually needed the extra drive yet since the big tyres and 7-tonne weight give good grip from the two driving wheels . |
| 4 | Added to all this , the existing quality control contamination test did n't effectively measure the true contamination level . |
| 5 | But he did n't exactly pick the right week for doing it . |
| 6 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 7 | We did n't even finish the last table . |
| 8 | What he said was a vague approximation of what Malcolm Harris had written , and he did n't even give the right cue to George Birkitt , who spoke next . |
| 9 | I mean they were bright green , and I thought it was a different bike , I did n't even noticed the second time if it was a ladies or a man 's bike . |
| 10 | That means they did n't even tell the D-G . |
| 11 | He did n't even ask the next question but went on looking at the Consul General expectantly . |
| 12 | He did n't even get the blasted crate back down on the runway , poor sod . |
| 13 | They did n't even notice the smashed front lights and the vicious new welt on the Boomerang doorframe when I slinked back to Hire-A-Heap the following day . |
| 14 | In school we did n't really do the actual pie charts but we used compasses . |
| 15 | " But , Hazel , you did n't really think the Chief Rabbit would act on your advice , did you ? |
| 16 | I did n't really hurt the old guy much . |
| 17 | And they knew full well that they did n't really need the three thousand apprentices but those large firms trained no no note my word , for the country 's needs , not the company 's needs ! |
| 18 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 19 | We did n't always do the same trips . |
| 20 | But he did n't always get the right encouragement at club level , and instead took up football . |
| 21 | Lyn did n't much like the old man who kept the shop . |
| 22 | Her real destination was Fleet Street and the offices of the weekly Clarion Cry , but she could hardly inform Dr Neil or Matey of that interesting fact — it did n't quite fit the sad picture which she had drawn of the friendless , abandoned orphan without employment — not that the money which she earned from the Clarion would have kept her . |
| 23 | They put out the ‘ Flag Day ’ EP , which garnered good reviews , ‘ Sheep ’ , a single that did n't quite make the Top 50 , and then broke through with ‘ Happy Hour ’ , which got to Number Three . |
| 24 | Seeing the smile that did n't quite reach the tired brown eyes , Lindsey shook her head . |
| 25 | Ms d'Harnoncourt , the only woman in the running , failed to make the short list because , according to Dr Murphy , ‘ She did n't quite have the administrative skills needed for our museum ’ . |
| 26 | Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’ |
| 27 | A record number of students took A-levels this year , but cuts in funding for popular university subjects such as arts and social sciences means some who did n't quite get the required grades may not get in . |
| 28 | A record number of students took A-levels this year , but cuts in funding for popular university subjects such as arts and social sciences means some who did n't quite get the required grades may not get in . |
| 29 | Activision 's second ghostly computer product did n't quite follow the enormous success of its predecessor , although in game design it 's just as mediocre . |
| 30 | ‘ When he was beaten his Dad did n't only buy the winning kart he bought the entire team for his son . |