Example sentences of "n't [verb] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’ |
| 2 | Stephen 's mother had n't fallen from the cliff-path in a gust of wind : she had been pushed by Stephen 's father . |
| 3 | We see each other every now and again , but we are n't joined at the hip like Siamese twins , you know . ’ |
| 4 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 5 | Is n't taught in the seat behind … . |
| 6 | I did n't say anything , just put the bits I could n't eat on the side of my plate . |
| 7 | He was different from them , did n't eat in the kitchen with us , but had my mother bake him potatoes and grate carrots that he ate in the isolation of the dining room . |
| 8 | ‘ So if you did n't stay in the station between about five-thirty and six-thirty , where exactly were you , sir ? ’ |
| 9 | You ca n't stay in the middle of a battle . ’ |
| 10 | The stranger asked him to promise one thing : ‘ Do n't stay in the job for more than ten years , because you 'll get stale . |
| 11 | Erm , let's cover one or two things , because about a year ago , in two articles in the local use , sorry who was it ? allowed to sell the accumulated fund from council house sales , on building new houses , and two weeks later the deputy leader of the council , argued that he needed that money invested because the council could n't exist without the interest on it . |
| 12 | If you have n't heard from the firm within 28 days , write to find out why . |
| 13 | A dealer exists to sell and since I can only produce two or three pictures a year the flow of the commodity is n't adjusted to the pace of the market . |
| 14 | Not possessing a BJ-10E , I ca n't comment on the kind of print quality it can church out using that driver , but TrueType , Windows ‘ built-in scalable font feature , should n't disappoint you . |
| 15 | Now that 's , that 's a prediction that I think er you would n't make on the basis of the Freudian theory , but on the basis of my interpretation of it , it kind of follows . |
| 16 | It was n't painted by the pupil of a fine painter , carrying out someone else 's wishes . |
| 17 | ‘ Train In Vain ’ is n't listed on the sleeve for ‘ London Calling ’ because it was originally going to be a flexi give-away with NME . |
| 18 | I certainly do n't think with the sort of product we have at the moment that there will be any possibility of raising prices before then because I mean , you know , there just are n't any really films which are going to grab people . |
| 19 | I do n't think with the amount of moneny we 've been talking about today that would be the case . |
| 20 | Well it , and I do n't think with the News of the World round their necks they can afford to start playing silly people . |
| 21 | yeah , I find that , that I 've done it and I 've written down the answer and then I ca n't think which number does it go to , and by the time I 've got to number one they 're on about six , so I might as well , I 'm lost it completely , so I ca n't do that either and my project work , course work , goes towards certain percent of my marks and I ca n't think for the life of me why |
| 22 | So we 're gon na catch every traffic light on red now there was something I wanted to go into Wisbech for but I ca n't think for the life of me what it was , I must get stuck into this Christmas shopping again , really must so much to do and such little time to do it in oh he 's , he 's put that car down five hundred pounds , that price of that car was , that he got for sale on it seven , seven , nine , five , |
| 23 | I ca n't think off the top of my head |
| 24 | I ca n't think of the name of the other German beer but the roll-on roll-off 'll be out in the dock , cos we had a roll-on roll- off in the dock at all |
| 25 | what 's it called ca n't think of the name of the blooming thing now but it was you did a line across , then you learn to do a long stitch |
| 26 | It was erm some backward-type country , ca n't think of the name of them now . |
| 27 | some village a , on the coast , ca n't think of the name with it , use to play football we did . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think about the age of the role , if a play is well written it tells an actor what to do , ’ said Mr Rickman , who is 45 . |
| 29 | Viewed from the standards of the outside world , the main trends in human life are perhaps shown up rather more clearly here : selfishness , courage , the desire for escape , self-fulfilment etc ’ but then once you 're here you do n't think about the standards of the outside world very much . ’ |
| 30 | The use of ‘ but ’ where common sense demands ‘ and ’ is symptomatic of a general malaise : the scriptwriters do n't think about the meaning of what they 've written , they just want it to sound pretty . |