Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] it [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few businesses that do manage to achieve this profit handsomely , but most do not achieve it once the market is established . |
| 2 | The traffic was thick through the outskirts of Ramsgate and Jim had still not made it when the traffic lights at the crossing where the Sandwich road met the London road showed up ahead . |
| 3 | The bank manager says that I can not have it until the will 's executor , my stepfather , agrees . |
| 4 | One of the men tried to jump on board , but could n't make it as the Jeep was travelling too fast . |
| 5 | She had her borrowed screwdriver ready to attempt a little amateur lockpicking , but she did n't need it because the drawer was n't locked . |
| 6 | I 've got to phone up Sunday I 'll say he ca n't do it until the spring cos dad 's got he suffers with his chest . |
| 7 | But erm what I am going to do but I ca n't do it until the spring erm at least until erm has cut the grass for the first time |
| 8 | Among the more imaginative excuses were ‘ I could n't do it because the dog was pining , ’ ‘ the file fell in the bin and the cleaners came ’ and ‘ my wife wanted to make love ’ , finanacial recruitment consultants Accountemps found . |
| 9 | Then er , you do n't do it whilst the boss is in the room , obviously . |
| 10 | Nothing , though , would induce her to sit in such close proximity , and she pretended she had n't seen it until the man in the white jacket swiftly replaced everything in front of her without a word . |
| 11 | Bob Collins did n't like it when the past came knocking at his door . |
| 12 | I do n't like when there 's only er me in the house all day long , I do n't like it when the house , the house is too tidy , when er there 's no children around . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't believe it when the ball went in . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't believe it when the letter came , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Doreen could n't believe it when the letter popped through her letterbox from the council . |
| 16 | Naturally enough , they had n't played it since the boy had entered adolescence . |
| 17 | Well I ca n't stop it cos the kettle 's boiling ! |
| 18 | They did n't have it until the camp closed . |
| 19 | She could n't help it if the spider came to her . |