Example sentences of "n't [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welsh could n't grade a bag of Homepride . |
| 2 | If you do n't experience a quality like compassion as a small child , then it becomes very difficult to develop this quality in adulthood . |
| 3 | And they have n't received a penny in compensation . |
| 4 | But Alan Govier from Oxford has n't received a penny in pension payments . |
| 5 | Mm , she does n't eat a lot of meat |
| 6 | do n't eat a lot of cake do he ? |
| 7 | And as she pushed open the forest-green doors of Woodline Design she realised with surprise that she had n't given a thought to Max for some considerable time . |
| 8 | They are becoming a lot more common , yes when you look in the report and accounts there are far , far more of these deferred pensioners there than er than ever used to exist and it 's something which I must admit we have n't given a lot of thought to yet , but it 's something because it 's growing that we will have to address erm in our federation , we will have to address that problem . |
| 9 | We ai n't heard a word from Jimmy have we ? |
| 10 | In the same letter to Nannerl , of 3 or 4 November , 1785 , Leopold was grumbling that he had n't heard a word from Wolfgang recently , but that a journalist friend had mentioned something about a new opera . |
| 11 | She had n't heard a sound from Roman 's room and she hoped he was out . |
| 12 | " You would n't make a profit on Lord Jim anyway " , he added , " I do n't regard her as an investment . |
| 13 | ‘ Wo n't make a bit of difference what you do , ’ she sniffed . |
| 14 | If you 're nice to him — I wo n't use the language over the air ( because you 'd be shut down ) that he uses to me — however nice you are to him it does n't make a bit of difference . |
| 15 | Why does n't make a way of escape for me ? |
| 16 | So it did n't make a scrap of difference , him being backward , like . |
| 17 | So and she ca I do n't know whether you noticed or she ca n't make a cup of coffee without spilling it . |
| 18 | There have been many doubts that Gazza could n't make a come-back at club level or even contemplate straddling the international scene again with the outrageous talent that made him a folk hero . |
| 19 | We did n't make a move without approval of the Buying Room at Ipswich , this was the power base of the Company , the team was led by ( Mr Jim ) , ( Pop ) and . |
| 20 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 21 | It does n't make a lot of sense to them to sell margarine without a name on the label . |
| 22 | It did n't make a lot of sense . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The thing is , there 's so little time in between tournaments and already I spend so little time in Bruhl and in Boca Raton , and it would n't make a lot of sense . |
| 24 | So it does n't make a lot of sense after that point the graph . |
| 25 | ‘ The teachers do n't teach , the priests do n't bother , and they 're releasing all the lunatics into the community so they do n't get looked after and they 'll either pass out from exposure or starvation or kill people because they 're mad , and then they 'll be slung into prison to add to the overcrowding , and all in all it does n't make a lot of sense . |
| 26 | Some of the things in the Maastricht treaty do n't make a lot of sense and some of the things that are not controversial for example , do n't make a lot of sense unless Europe does grow . |
| 27 | Some of the things in the Maastricht treaty do n't make a lot of sense and some of the things that are not controversial for example , do n't make a lot of sense unless Europe does grow . |
| 28 | I do n't know how big the uptake is because actually it does n't make a lot of sense you know , it 's not that much cheaper . |
| 29 | Speed and distance from the road edge probably would n't make a lot of difference if a landmine was detonated as they went by , but doing it makes everyone feel better . |
| 30 | Despite the length of the ruling it does n't make a lot of difference to our prospects at the European Court of Human Rights . ’ |