Example sentences of "n't [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandra : As for that Mrs C I ca n't explain my feelings about the woman . |
| 2 | I would n't fancy their chances in the play-offs . ’ |
| 3 | Miners may strike in support of nurses , but that does n't make them fighters for the equality of women or for women as women . |
| 4 | I do n't think my performances during the winter were as good as could have been expected . |
| 5 | The ducks that lived on the island in that lake did n't restrict their activities to the park . |
| 6 | We did n't discuss his plans for the day , only mine , and those I presume are hardly of interest to you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Thanks , but I really do n't need your opinions on the subject . ’ |
| 8 | Although they did n't know their names at the time , they spotted Dominic Wetherby and the American boy , Lee Horan , going into the public bar , but no-one suggested that the two parties should join up . |
| 9 | Perhaps you know them over the garden wall to speak to you , you might even know their children by name and you know their christian name , but beyond that I think it 's true to say , even making allowance of generation gaps that you do n't know your neighbours in the same way that you knew your neighbours in London . |
| 10 | Do n't drum your hands on the tablecloth , |
| 11 | ‘ For instance , we ca n't show our faces at the palazzo until at least eleven tonight . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't choose my friends for the size of their wallets , you know . ’ |
| 13 | That 's their problem , if they ca n't keep their eyes on the road . |
| 14 | I could n't possibly allow my wife to work for men who ca n't keep their minds on the job and their hands to themselves . ’ |
| 15 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |
| 16 | They have n't got our contacts in the postal service . ’ |
| 17 | Accommodation Well you have n't got your stairs in the front room for a start . |
| 18 | Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants … |
| 19 | The woman did n't remove her arms from the curd , only nodded at her son and then at the bucket of peelings . |
| 20 | If I do n't see their names in the overnight declarations on Friday afternoon , I 'll be on the blower to the News of the World before you can say ‘ flagellation ’ , right ? |
| 21 | He just looked at Mr. Mendez , though you could n't see his eyes in the shadow of his hat brim . |
| 22 | I wrote to Tim & Polly yesterday but I ca n't lay my hands on The Barbarton exploration Base address . |
| 23 | Worse , she preferred the pain of being with him and knowing that he did n't return her feelings to the pain of not being with him at all . |
| 24 | You should n't drop your books on the floor darling , cos that 's a special book . |
| 25 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 26 | ‘ They could n't take their eyes off the dancers . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , your Lucy has got you winding her chain , darling , and she just wo n't take her feet off the ground and let go — am I right ? ’ |
| 28 | She could n't take her eyes off the livid scratch on his nose . |
| 29 | Bernice could n't take her eyes from the tall woman , and realized that her companions , too , must have been staring . |
| 30 | Major Nogin was looking expectantly towards our table and Ralph Pike could n't take his eyes off the major . |