Example sentences of "[verb] n't [vb infin] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it basically means is that if someone makes a gift during his lifetime and-does n't die for a given period , that gift is free of estate duty , or partly free . |
| 2 | It did n't speak in a natural way as modern computers do . |
| 3 | I did n't bother with a changing table , but we bought a new cupboard for Rachel 's room and I changed her on top of that until she got too big . |
| 4 | You see , when we went through the asteroid storm , I did n't watch for a few seconds . |
| 5 | THEY had a homosexual , a nymphomaniac , an alcoholic and a Cockney crook — but they did n't reckon for a serial killer . |
| 6 | She was vaguely aware that she ought to offer congratulations , but for some reason she did n't feel in a congratulatory frame of mind . |
| 7 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
| 8 | And more to the point he did n't disappear on a massive binge , and he gave all that money to his sister . |
| 9 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 10 | I did n't go I did n't go through a proper sort of instructive thing . |
| 11 | It seems the attack did n't come as a total surprise . |
| 12 | ‘ She did n't come from a wealthy family ? ’ |
| 13 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
| 14 | The tribunal has heard from another former staff member that residents were sometimes punished with meals of bread and water and confined to their rooms , if they did n't conform to a strict regime . |
| 15 | This did n't happen during a single eruption , of course ; the individual flows average only ten metres thick , so many hundreds of individual flows are piled up one on top of the other , covering an area of about 130,000 square kilometres . |
| 16 | I 'm surprised Sister did n't ask for a single room . |
| 17 | But it all seemed very appropriate and did n't seem like a headstrong , desperate manoeuvre in any sense . |
| 18 | The princess kissed the frog and he did n't turn into a handsome prince but that was all right because she liked him as a frog . |
| 19 | Interestingly , this did n't translate into a great database benchmark in the What Personal Computer Power Tests , although it still returned an overall score of around 14,500 . |
| 20 | Sir Stanley 's only regret is that he did n't play for a few years more . |
| 21 | She did n't breathe for a long time . |
| 22 | She did n't drive at a steady speed like his Mum . |
| 23 | We did n't help with a huge van on the Foss on the Foss Bank there . |
| 24 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
| 25 | Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree . |
| 26 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |
| 27 | We did n't canvass in a nice little area , we canvassed on the side of the bloody moors . |
| 28 | You can also choose sealed units that give your windows the small-paned Georgian look , or the appearance of leaded lights in square and diamond formats , with none of the cleaning problems — the glazing bars and lead strips are set in the gap between the outer panes ( as long as you do n't go for a large picture window with this effect — it can look just plain silly ! ) . |
| 29 | Do n't deploy onto a larger frontage than you have to with Goblins . |
| 30 | In an era of fast food , subsistence incomes do n't make for a culinary culture . |