Example sentences of "n't [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't much want to share anything with a grossly fat man wearing nothing but one of the lately fashionable cherub costumes — consisting solely of two small white wings glued to his blubbery back . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't just stop loving someone after all that time — unfortunately , ’ she says . |
| 3 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
| 4 | You ca n't possibly have got it into your head that I 'm having some kind of affair with Lexy , of all people . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she answered lightly , and turning to Leith , ‘ I 'm afraid Travis does n't always surface to join us for breakfast on Sunday morning . ’ |
| 6 | I should n't ever have got myself into that position but it 's a wonderful feeling when you get yourself out of it . |
| 7 | I do n't really want to take him to court . ’ |
| 8 | The other , the other weakness it possibly turned up is that , my experience is that , unless something bad there , the press do n't really want to do anything about it , if you 're just trying to sell your wares and say how good you are , and then hide a bit behind , I mean they 'll turn around anyway the circle , must be something . |
| 9 | I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations . |
| 10 | I would erm suggest what we do is we stop the Dieside and put in something else , you know , just to keep you on on I do n't really want to have you on a combination of lots |
| 11 | Cos I have got a verruca the si anyway that 's a problem that I have I do n't really want to share it with you . |
| 12 | I really want to get , I er , I I want you to , I did n't really want to make it to four , I did n't want to get it too formalized because I think that sometimes gets in the way of real information . |
| 13 | Both their voices were low ; they did n't really mean to include him in the conversation , and it was noisy in the room ; people laughed and shouted , the music next door had been turned up . |
| 14 | Oh , yes , she recognised the sexual awareness that was an integral part of his attitude towards her , and it made her uneasy , but he could n't really mean to do anything about it when he despised her so intensely . |
| 15 | Erm , I do n't really wish to add anything in particular to this if people would like to ask questions , then I 'm prepared to answer them . |
| 16 | Erm , we do n't really need to concern ourselves with it in detail , thank God , because genetics is a terribly complicated business and awfully technical and I do n't understand a , a tenth of it , and we do n't really need to . |
| 17 | If you 're just somebody who 's on the outside providing services , to keep the smooth running of it then you do n't really have to know anything about it . |
| 18 | He 's we do n't really get to know him as a person . |
| 19 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |
| 20 | Braden did n't even offer to pay him for the ticket . |
| 21 | She had heard the cops on Plenty did n't even bother throwing you in jail . |
| 22 | I did n't even bother play it to anyone . |
| 23 | Well he does n't even need to say anything at all actually you could just sit down , erm and start to write a poem about what he imagines . |
| 24 | You do n't even have to hit them off the ground . |
| 25 | You wo n't even have to throw me off Water Gypsy . |
| 26 | I do n't even like having them on the island , not even Mrs Clamp , who comes every week on a Saturday to clean the house and deliver our supplies . |
| 27 | You accused me of being blinkered , but you 're just as bad , wo n't even try to understand it from my point of view . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And to think that I had specially brought that card all the way from Croisset and did n't even get to put it in place ! |
| 29 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 30 | ‘ We do n't particularly want to protect him from infection . |