Example sentences of "n't [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so he did n't eat it all at dinner time . |
| 2 | However that did n't make them guilty of murder . |
| 3 | Erm peacocks ' tails may make them beautiful and more reproductively successful with peahens , but they do n't make them fitter in terms of erm life expectancy . |
| 4 | Of course that 's so hard , they do n't make it pointless for people to find jobs that they do n't declare their income , so that means test would encourage the black economy . |
| 5 | I did n't think it appropriate in front of Sarah . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But you would n't know them all by sight , ’ I said . |
| 7 | If surprise had n't made it impossible for Isabel to prevaricate , her quick blush would certainly have betrayed her . |
| 8 | Right , well , well do n't give me half for coat cos you 've got filter . |
| 9 | Hepworth 's obsessive desire to make ‘ English pictures , with all the English countryside for background and with English atmosphere and English idiom throughout ’ did n't keep him up-to-date with audience tastes . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't keep me short of money , Bathsheba , or you 'll be sorry . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And do n't leave me alone with Margaret . |
| 12 | Feminists ca n't blame it all on men — since time began , men have delighted in our wobbly bits , thank heaven . |
| 13 | So imagine you were writing Jayne here J now it 's a very long name , Jayne and you have to put the title on there too , so I could n't put it all in capital letters on this occasion could I ? |
| 14 | And they wo n't play it all in Germany ? |
| 15 | I 've got that much cupboard full now , I ca n't get it all in look . |
| 16 | I do n't offer you these for twopence , ’ my Granpa would shout , holding up a cabbage in both hands , ‘ I do n't offer 'em for a penny , not even a ha'penny . |
| 17 | At first I thought that was why the police wanted him , because the sort of way we were thinking in there had been definitely subversive , I mean they do n't teach you that in school eh ! |
| 18 | Happiness is achieved through virtue , and virtue ( from the same root as ‘ virility , ’ though they wo n't teach you Latin in case you find that out ) is acquired by the right knowledge of things . |
| 19 | You need to be very familiar with the text , you ca n't learn it word-for-word for goodness sake , but you certainly are able to identify all the key issues and key aspects of it and that 's what you 're looking out for , so you could re-tell the story again , you can re-tell the story again yourself accurately , identifying all the key points . |