Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called the shots while we were still tiny , and they did n't spring into crushed velvet bell-bottoms in 1966 , just because it was a happening thing to do . |
| 2 | People who were able to make their own fun , did n't rely on store-bought fun . |
| 3 | His room was no bigger than Fat Eric 's , but the people in the house were friendlier , slimmer , and did n't boast of spinal surgery . |
| 4 | And when these did n't meet with immediate success , yet more surveys were done and more programmes developed — until , ultimately , it was decided that , if parents could not be trusted to do the right thing , the decision had to be taken out of their hands . |
| 5 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 6 | Then you obviously did n't go to public school like I did . |
| 7 | You did n't go to Bound Zoo |
| 8 | ‘ You would n't feel that I was letting you down if I did n't go to veterinary college ? ’ she asked — and felt the happiest she had done in weeks at his reply . |
| 9 | Erm but one thing I would say , is that erm we did n't go into long term erm debt to get things like three pieces and and bedroom suite and things like this . |
| 10 | George said that Rose Lipman , having climbed from slop-girl at Kelly 's Melodrama Theatre in Paradise Street to manager of the repertory company , did n't hold with casual labour . |
| 11 | Unlike his mother and Rose-Ann he did n't object to burnt toast , so he buttered it as it was , not pausing to toast the other side of it . |
| 12 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 13 | So he did n't listen to odd jibe about our millionaire friend , and he did n't ask them to pay . |
| 14 | Alice 's parents did n't know about toxic shock , and the fact it could be related to using a tampon , but also the parents of some other children , other women did n't know either . |
| 15 | After countless ages I seemed to come back to a real realisation that I was continuing to breathe , even if with difficulty , and did n't seem in immediate danger of stopping . |
| 16 | Perhaps the fiddle sheet did n't run to outside entertainment more than once a month . |
| 17 | Macmillan was an idle man , who just did n't work as Prime Minister , and Douglas-Home was idle . |
| 18 | She spent money they did n't have on green leafage and bought a large , real tree in Blesford market place . |
| 19 | Every one of us , we would n't devote our time , our precious time serving in local government if we did n't believe in local government and did n't want to provide the best possible services to the people of this city . |
| 20 | ‘ They are responsible for a lot of the machine tools that we have now , ’ Gerwyn says , ‘ and they developed them because they did n't believe in wasted labour . |
| 21 | Charity did n't deal in small talk so she did n't bother to play that game . |
| 22 | I had no idea you did n't approve of go-go dancing or I 'd never have taken you there . ’ |
| 23 | He did n't approve of Celtic influence on what he called " the pure springs of Anglo-Saxon democracy " , holding that most of what had gone wrong with Britain over the past thousand years or so was the fault of " Celtic individualism " . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought you did n't approve of manual labour , ’ Oliver said . |
| 25 | A Lydon penalty gave Wigan a 9-2 interval lead and despite the errors , John Monie 's men did n't look in imminent danger . |
| 26 | Truthfully , I had n't believed in Heavenly Father since my fourth Christmas Eve night , the night when Auntie trod on my brick-truck as she tried to sneak in with my present — a smart Apollo Candy with stabilisers , hand-painted maroon — Pa being out with the Recovery . |
| 27 | He had n't visited since early afternoon and that was n't good enough . |
| 28 | Neither of them seemed to be emergencies , as the callers had n't asked for immediate aid . |
| 29 | It was all reasonably clean , and a smell of cooking reminded Sarah that she had n't eaten since early morning when Daniel 's landlady had given her breakfast . |