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

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1 You are the pleasures which we draw him on to — ( He escapes a fractional giggle but recovers immediately ) and by that I do n't mean your usual filth ; you ca n't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires .
2 He said the management at the site had n't given permission for welding on the oil tank .
3 But even Helen Huntingdon does n't seek independence in order to freely give it up again .
4 She did n't catch sight of Marc until that afternoon .
5 Do n't preach lack of trust at me .
6 A minute or two later Pat said he could n't keep height for lack of power and we would have to ditch .
7 You have n't slept head to toe in a bed with him though .
8 Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me
9 But then those two do n't see eye to eye about anything these days .
10 ‘ I had the impression that you did n't see eye to eye on how the club should be run . ’
11 I do n't see eye to eye with Tod on all issues .
12 ‘ You ca n't pretend he 's normal and it 's no secret that he did n't see eye to eye with Alain . ’
13 They brought him back as a Caretaker to General Manager and really I did n't see eye to eye with him .
14 ‘ Charity , if you ca n't see destiny at work in all this , you 're blinder than your glasses , thick as they were , ever led me to believe . ’
15 ‘ And I do n't return night after night to the flat — largely thanks to the fact that I am footloose and fancy-free , I can follow my job wherever it takes me . ’
16 But she could n't stop thinking of David in his white coat , visiting the patients , touching them , and this was where her thoughts made her tingle all over , and she had to set her mind to something else .
17 ‘ It did n't heighten awareness about Aids at all — and that 's what young people want to know about .
18 ‘ There 's all sorts of rumours , but you ca n't take notice of rumours in this place .
19 If I do n't take control of things at once , she thought , I never will .
20 Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’
21 ‘ I 'm only spoiling you like this , ’ lied my mother , ‘ because when you 've got a home of your own you wo n't have time for breakfast in bed . ’
22 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 .
23 If they did n't have food for breakfast for us , they would n't wake us up in the morning .
24 Well that 's true but maybe , you know and if you 've to drink she , maybe you should n't drink sherry on top of what you 've had injected into you .
25 I ca n't stand tea with sugar in it .
26 ‘ We felt it was a worthwhile cause as we ca n't stand cruelty to animals of any sort .
27 A lot of people do n't come face to face with me here
28 You know you ca n't feel , you ca n't grab hold of light in your hand .
29 He had n't put pen to paper since the day before Martin died , and he doubted if he would ever do so again .
30 But that 's peanuts compared with what I stand to lose if I do n't get Seawitch to Athens by the fourth . ’
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