Example sentences of "n't [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought , Do n't know about a wild goose chase , this is a lame duck chase . |
| 32 | Fucking balaclava more like it , do n't know about a fucking hat ! |
| 33 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
| 34 | Erm , we would n't want the policy to progress so far erm as to get to the stage of looking for a specific site and for us to pull the rug underneath the County , and for other authorities to pull the rug from underneath the County at that stage , erm to answer to Mr Heselton 's specific question , of course we would n't object to a new settlement er in Selby , but erm it does n't erm it does n't detract from our objection to erm the principle of the policy , the way the policy 's expressed . |
| 35 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 36 | Cos she has n't applied for a green card to work , cos there 's point |
| 37 | I hope ‘ my lord — Mr Smith ’ was n't listening through a secret panel ! ’ |
| 38 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 39 | It did n't speak in a natural way as modern computers do . |
| 40 | And the stacks were n't built around a central pole ? |
| 41 | If you and the father have n't decided on a Christian name you have just six weeks in which to do it . ’ |
| 42 | There are many things that I can do now , but could n't do as a young man , which contradicts the notion that in order to be a good instrumentalist you have to acquire a comprehensive technique i your teens . |
| 43 | I did n't particularly , but I did wonder whether perhaps the left 's priorities could n't do with a little sharpening . |
| 44 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
| 45 | Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’ |
| 46 | She was vaguely aware that she ought to offer congratulations , but for some reason she did n't feel in a congratulatory frame of mind . |
| 47 | ‘ If these efforts do n't result in a firm order , then I 've made absolutely nothing . ’ |
| 48 | It is n't seen as a feminine quality , confidence ; girls are supposed to be quite demure . |
| 49 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 50 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 51 | ‘ I have hit shots this week I have n't seen in a long time . |
| 52 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 53 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
| 54 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |
| 55 | Have n't done for a long time . |
| 56 | For example , it may not want the same sweets as , as the little kid , you know little kids like little kids ' sweets , and grown up kids like more grown up sweets , they may like bubble-gum and things you would n't give to a little baby . |
| 57 | on on erm one side of A four and it was obviously was n't written by a young man |
| 58 | Do n't stick to a single time each day but try to vary it to see if the time of day makes a difference for you . |
| 59 | It does n't work as a political play . |
| 60 | Of course the situation is not the same and the techniques you use with a five-minute sequence in the classroom obviously would n't work with a sixty-minute film . |