Example sentences of "n't [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't travelled with a maid for years . |
| 2 | ‘ They do n't graze like a herd of sheep and keep all the vegetation down to one level , ’ says Robson . |
| 3 | You know , I ca n't stay for a week in silence . |
| 4 | ‘ Once you are back in England , there are a thousand other things to do : bills to pay , shopping , other sides to living that do n't exist in a place like Antarctica , where there is no telephone , and no other people for thousands of miles . ’ |
| 5 | Marmeladov does n't think of a drunkard as a human being but as a brute , a beast , a swine . |
| 6 | So erm you ca n't even see the things you 're looking at , I do n't think in a group for the , for the reason Heather said , because what will happen is , you will see reflecting individual , the values and aspirations of the group and especially the , the disturbing effects of the other members and the leader . |
| 7 | " The boy do n't behave like a zombie for nothing . |
| 8 | Some of this experimental technology will go into SAS release 6.09 , most will roll into version 7.0 , which is n't expected for a couple of years yet . |
| 9 | He does n't approve of a lot of things . |
| 10 | of course we do n't know what , as your Lordship says we do n't know as a matter of fact what the , the height of the |
| 11 | ‘ We wo n't know for a couple of days but everything points to her having used large amounts of cocaine , ’ a senior detective told TODAY . |
| 12 | And he seems to think I may not get any worse , but we sha n't know for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 13 | Whereas Charles Paris , who knew that he had given one of the best performances of his career in The Hooded Owl , was a name that the punters would n't know from a bar of soap . |
| 14 | If he or she does n't act for a number of successful bands , he or she is unlikely to have a thorough understanding of accounting in the music business . |
| 15 | Obviously I could n't mime to a voice of seventeen years ago , no way on earth ! |
| 16 | I was n't trapped within a vision of my femaleness . |
| 17 | Spellbound , she could have stood there gazing indefinitely if her ankle , which unconsciously she 'd put weight on , had n't protested with a stab of pain . |
| 18 | Of course , it does n't matter for a man about being fat . |
| 19 | I got I got you , I wo n't land in a convent for |
| 20 | There was a terrible nervousness which you do n't expect from a man of that age , and of that standing in the ministry . |
| 21 | He spoke with assurance ; but he looked so young with his fair hair , grey eyes and slim body , he did n't appear like a doctor at all . |
| 22 | She quite obviously was n't listening to a word of it . |
| 23 | We have n't decided on a name for the band yet , though ! ’ |
| 24 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 25 | If she is lucky she may find that at least a few children appreciate that ( 4 ) makes for a better drama game than ( 3 ) , and that ( 1 ) is so bland that it does n't feel like a game at all ! |
| 26 | The sight-saving operation had n't worked ; the doctors had n't reckoned on a rebellion in the form of a massive eye haemorrhage . |
| 27 | But their kids were n't expected to work for their love , it was n't seen as a return for services rendered . |
| 28 | They they feel they ca n't keep to a timetable for that reason . |
| 29 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 30 | She was a big , bosomy woman who could n't work without a box of biscuits on the desk beside her , and Sarella could hear her now , crunching her way through them . |