Example sentences of "n't [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Give my thanks to Bartholomew the Englishman , ’ Cranston replied drily , ‘ but it does n't explain why a London merchant came down here in the dark , fastened a rope round a beam and hanged himself . ’
2 But there were loads of spaces and I also happen to know that if you do n't stay long the hotel management does n't mind . ’
3 She would n't rule out an end terrace but
4 It 's got leather and , and iron and steel , now you come onto the Road and you would n't think there a leather factory about would you ?
5 I do n't know why a 5ml stock bottle does n't create too strong a medicine , perhaps my patients are too ‘ healthy ’ ( ! ) ,
6 ‘ In the hope of following them to the base , since we do n't know where the land entrance is — I only saw the inlet that allows ships in . ’
7 Well that was another thing , one of the new first-aiders we 've got , erm did n't know where the accident book was and I thought was quite an important thing that would probably have been brought up
8 ‘ Because I did n't know where the police station was , ’ I retorted .
9 I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt .
10 ‘ Well , ’ she said hurriedly , ‘ I did n't carry on the family business .
11 Or that you 're a duffer if you ca n't polish off a wall gecko in under two minutes ? ’
12 ‘ Well , my advice to him would be , do n't give up the day job .
13 do n't give up the day job Nigel … not that he 'd want to … red five flies again at Donington Park on sunday …
14 Firing blanks LEE CHAPMAN and his Leeds team-mates could n't break down the Stuttgart defence as they began their European campaign in Germany last night
15 ‘ Rexroth 's review said that as the band had n't shown up a pick-up band was assembled from members of the audience , who just banged pots and pans and made odd noises .
16 And I do n't see how the structure plan er i the way it 's been progressed so far , can determine any one of those general locational criteria .
17 The moratorium on the British coal industry takes into account the fact that Father Christmas ca n't fit down a gas fire 's flue outlet .
18 If all we need is a TOP Time-Out to find a solution to a problem , we should n't set up an Improvement Team .
19 Do n't take along a shade fringe with dozens of colours — pull out a few ‘ whiskers ’ in basic shades and make up a fringe of your own .
20 If you press this one , if you press record it wo n't because there 's a tape in but if you just press press record automatic and you press record and the play button but you ca n't press just the record button .
21 Hugh Johnson , The Story of Wine When Jesus Christ turned water into wine , he did n't hand out a warning label .
22 ‘ If I do n't come back the gas mask is no good against it .
23 You ca n't fill in the application form .
24 She did n't pick up the name Berowne although he knew that it was safely stowed in her mind .
25 At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step .
26 we had Roy and then we had Simon for a bit and then we decided because it was n't working altogether an Edinburgh person and a Glasgow person
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