Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’
2 Being the casual criminals they were , they did n't persist long in the chase .
3 Prospective players need n't rush out to the gym though .
4 Do n't rush in with the word before he/she has had time to think , but do n't leave him/her struggling .
5 But at the time I was just hurt that I could n't wade out into the lake and save them .
6 Ken produced some of his standard characters that were to become as closely identified with him as was ‘ Stop messing about ’ — which did n't disappear totally from the airways .
7 He said well you 've got to stay to the end I mean , but do n't stay right to the end , you know sort of
8 So if you are a die-hard player who ca n't stay away from the golf course during the winter months , why not try a golfing holiday on the Continent ?
9 ‘ You ca n't stay away from the wedding !
10 Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off
11 erm , because you do n't stay back for a drink afterwards because you 're going to Strawberry Hill .
12 Most of them were designed to make the most of the limitations of a character-based environment ; their procedures just do n't port easily into the Windows way of working .
13 Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering .
14 However , the speed and excitement of the third level simply ca n't make up for the boredom of the first two , thus banishing this product into the depths of mediocrity .
15 No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway .
16 I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is !
17 Of course , these would be the ones who did n't make straight for the pubs .
18 ‘ I do n't want out of the relationship , Mick .
19 ‘ Well , it wo n't hurt there for a bit till I can get down , ’ murmured Peggy , and struggled up higher and on to the topmost branches .
20 And Lucy Lane : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journals . ’
21 ‘ Do n't cash in on the fact that you know I — I 'm susceptible to you .
22 Lucy Lane said : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journal . ’
23 Of course , you ca n't think exactly like a keyboard or a sax player would when you 're playing the guitar — the instrument will always shape the way you think to some extent .
24 I ca n't think where at the moment .
25 I suppose it was good for us , but we did n't think so at the time .
26 I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God !
27 ‘ Should n't think so for a minute , knowing him . ’
28 I should n't think so for a minute darling .
29 ‘ I should n't think so for a moment , ’ said Rufus , whose speech grew more precise when he was drunk .
30 ‘ I should n't think so for a moment . ’
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