Example sentences of "[verb] n't [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody once said to me they think it 's really rude if they did n't bring wine to a , to a dinner party and then they do n't have to have to drink it . |
| 2 | In his first interview with American television , President Saddam Hussein told C B S News that he did n't want war with the west , but he claimed that God was on his side and said that Iraq would come out victorious in any conflict . |
| 3 | I did n't feel pain from the burns any more , but that had been replaced by a pain a thousand times worse . |
| 4 | He did n't finish work until the evening , and it was then that Nigel drove off down to Berkshire , and found his father dead . |
| 5 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 6 | I did n't go because I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming passion for him , we did n't make love on the tiger-skin rug in that little box of a room you gave him , his pear-shaped body pressed against my ageing but still voluptuous frame . ’ |
| 7 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 8 | They were relaxed , joking amongst themselves ; it was a relief to be on a march where they did n't expect trouble after the last few weeks of demonstrations and violence . |
| 9 | Hockey did n't become part of the Olympics until the London Games of 1908 , but then Reg Pridmore , who played county cricket for Warwickshire , top-scored for the English team which won gold . |
| 10 | And even though he did n't become topscorer in the league ( he scored 12–13 in 22 matches ) he grabbed 5 or 6 in 4 matches in the E-cup against a swedish team and Juventus . |
| 11 | This was not to say that he did n't spend time with the army , lending vigorous help as the trains of oxen dragged the batteries into position , and the wagonloads of food and fodder , weapons and powder bumped fifty miles south-east from Kyrenia to where Famagusta lay , lodged in its bay , divided by ninety broad sea miles from Syria . |
| 12 | Anything so that he did n't connect Lori with the jade . |
| 13 | And it was in their spare time — they did n't get leave from the official rota . |
| 14 | We did n't get hold of the wrong end of the stick . |
| 15 | In those days , if a writer did n't get approval from the Lord Chamberlain , councils had to approve the plays being presented in their areas . |
| 16 | His sister did n't need anger at the moment , and it was only his concern that had allowed it to escape . |
| 17 | He did n't dare look at the others . |
| 18 | When implies something similar in ( 62 ) , where one understands that the speaker felt she did n't dare move before the moment evoked by when . |
| 19 | The extra name was written by hand on the scorecard , which cost 10 centimes but did n't disclaim responsibility for the last wicket to fall ! |
| 20 | Surely Cynthia did n't fall victim to the same fear ? |
| 21 | My friend , if you did n't have hair at the front |
| 22 | A lot of very young single mums , if the did n't have relative in the area , found the pressures of living in the flats on benefit , er pretty severe . |
| 23 | The immigrant groups had the numbers , even if they did n't have control of the media or the school board . |
| 24 | This is because the denizens of the past did n't have access to the theory of cognitive metaphor , and that way of understanding language . |
| 25 | Mind you , I did n't have time for a refresher course , we just had to get on with it . |
| 26 | No , Claire was going but she had , did n't have time on the way back |
| 27 | Leon did n't have time over the next hour to wonder what the energetic , highly competent and reliable Wellington had been doing to make him sweat . |
| 28 | Anyone who did n't take advantage of a situation like this was a fool . |
| 29 | But our experience has shown the public did n't take advantage of the facility except over the Christmas and New Year period . ’ |
| 30 | For the first time since 1982 she did n't take part in a short-handed ocean race , a form of competition to which she has become healthily addicted . |