Example sentences of "n't [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't stay in the small office with Roman 's lazy , taunting presence . |
| 2 | Now that 's an English expression I have n't heard in a long time . |
| 3 | And I know so many songs that it would be fun to go out there and say , ‘ Hey , man , do you remember this one ? ’ or , ‘ Here 's one you have n't heard in a long time . ' ’ |
| 4 | The new philosophy said that we should not make value judgements : you ca n't think in an Aristotelian way ; no value judgements , no good and bad . |
| 5 | They did n't think in the right way . |
| 6 | She realized that she was n't walking in a straight line and was unsteady on her feet . |
| 7 | I said to our Pam , Terry has n't looked in the bloody door . |
| 8 | Minor characters like Miss Skiffins , Wopsle , the Aged Parent and Clara Barley are mostly brought into the novel through light-hearted scenes and they are n't included in the actual story , only as comical characters — for light relief . |
| 9 | ‘ Howard is n't included in the magic circle on this one . |
| 10 | Then your then your feelings perhaps do n't matter in the overall picture of the education , but bearing in , looking at the teachers in our school , we , we really do n't have a weak teacher except perhaps Mr , who 's obviously not been well these last three years , erm |
| 11 | Yeah , mind you his , his short er term policies so it does n't matter in the long run . |
| 12 | Because she 's got the two and as she said to me , it does n't matter in the junior school , he will take a teacher 's assessment or a report with him anyway . |
| 13 | I said how wrong I thought it was that she was n't rated in the literary canon , that she was thought of as a ‘ popular ’ novelist , and how some of her work was very much better than that . ’ |
| 14 | It did n't speak in a natural way as modern computers do . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ If these efforts do n't result in a firm order , then I 've made absolutely nothing . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have hit shots this week I have n't seen in a long time . |
| 18 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 19 | Because Debussy being French the instructions here are n't written in the usual language which you come across which is Italian . |
| 20 | I do n't work in the photographic laboratory . |
| 21 | You did n't look in the right place did you ? |
| 22 | Emstar chairman Richard Tinson claims there is a lot of interest in CHP schemes because ‘ people do n't believe in the low electricity prices ’ . |
| 23 | You 've only got to look at the history of religion , especially Christianity , to see that at as the guys who went round flagellating themselves also went around killing other people if they did n't believe in the right religion and that unfortunately er happens all too often . |
| 24 | They did n't believe in the magic spell literally , of course , but they had had their experience of telepathic closeness at that time of the month . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't believe in the fatal decline of the written word , ’ says Mr Fontaine , ‘ but we are competing all the time — not so much against television , because the screen image and the printed word complement each other , as against magazines , and against the time people spend getting to work and then their leisure time — against music and the cinema . ’ |
| 26 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |
| 27 | Do n't sleep in an overheated room as this can cause fluid retention in your face and bags under the eyes . |
| 28 | The child was n't wilting in an alien environment . |
| 29 | Do n't react in the expected way ; put him off his stride and you are already one step ahead . |
| 30 | Just one or two erm questions if I may erm reduction in use of staff advertising this is what we 're looking at when we 're talking about we 've managed to do that unless we do n't anticipate in the near future when we 've already . |