Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
| 2 | So while differential wage rates might explain the preponderance of women in the Mauritius EPZ , they do not explain it in the Mexican maquilas ( in-bond factories ) . |
| 3 | He did not realize it in the Sixties , nor the Seventies . |
| 4 | And while Robert Wilson admits that the appeal of managing his own company could become a reality one day , he does not envisage it in the near future . |
| 5 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 6 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 7 | A proliferation of pentecostal and evangelical sects , and the success of the Salvation Army ( founded in 1878 ) seemed to show that though the masses could still be moved by religious fervour , they could not find it in the established churches . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble is it is unimaginable to him that his women do n't want it in the same way . ’ |
| 9 | And right where she did n't expect it in the black universe was another dark space , solid with hidden meanings , difficult to see , alien to her comprehension . |
| 10 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 11 | in the seventies but like er you can do it in the seventies you ca n't do it in the nineties . |
| 12 | Another example , I wo n't give it in the same detail . |
| 13 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 14 | It was a new sensation , and she did n't like it in the slightest . |
| 15 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
| 16 | ‘ Pity everyone does n't see it in the same light . ’ |
| 17 | Dixons refused to exchange it because we did n't return it in the original packaging . |
| 18 | I did n't mean it in the cold-blooded way it seems to have turned out . ’ |
| 19 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |
| 20 | he 's saying he did n't say it in the first place . |