Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] n't [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Squigs do n't like daylight at all , and quickly become maddened by the sun . |
| 2 | Frogs do n't lay spawn in winter . |
| 3 | A lot of countries do n't have control over their own economies , they do n't have control over things like whether of not people are going to have jobs , whether or not people are going to make a livelihood , whether or not people are going to even be able to live in the country , because in Ireland something like 1000 people a week are leaving the country in order to get work . |
| 4 | These chaps do n't have security of tenure . ’ |
| 5 | If things do n't give way before tomorrow I 'm going to have to , it 's bloody half past seven when I get home , and I want to be in the pub you see , but whatever , all these things happen . |
| 6 | One manufacturer of modern doors and windows in Gloucestershire says he goes out of his way to offer finishes and styles in keeping with older properties and his work helps conservation in another way — his frames do n't use timber from the rainforests . |
| 7 | ‘ The doctors do n't encourage sex between you lot , ’ Terry , the porter , went on . |
| 8 | ‘ Doctors do n't have time to be beautiful , ’ Charity informed her ruefully . |
| 9 | ‘ You know something the newspapers have n't got hold of , is that it ? ’ |
| 10 | And the point is that all this is good , fair and equitable if you start from the conventional wisdom that : housewives do n't need money of their own because they are supported by their husbands ; they are supported by their husbands because they are dependants ; and they are dependants because they ‘ do n't work ’ . |
| 11 | Bees do n't make honey by talking . ’ |
| 12 | And because 59% of men regret divorce ( but only 29% of women ) , it seems that men do n't recognise marriage as a good thing when they have it . |
| 13 | Although in many parts of the world babies do n't drink milk after weaning and grow up perfectly healthy , in Northern Europe cow 's milk is part of our diet and young children are encouraged to drink it because it 's cheap , convenient , high in protein and energy , and a good source of calcium and vitamins A and B. There are conflicting opinions on when cow 's milk can first be given to children . |
| 14 | Hotels do n't give information about guests easily . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The good ones do n't have time for long drunken lunches , and you get better results by getting them to give you and the client a sandwich in a bar at six p.m . |
| 16 | I think you mentioned earlier on in the meeting that some authorities have n't taken advantage of European money and we do n't want to fall into that trap . |
| 17 | ‘ You know , if you read the collected letters of any writer — if you read her biography — you will always get a sense that there 's something missing , something biographers do n't have access to , the real thing , the crucial thing , the thing that really mattered to the poet herself . |