Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jerked her back to face him and Isabel could n't repress a sharp cry of fear at the violence in his eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 3 | Do n't eat a heavy meal for at least two hours before you exercise . |
| 4 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 5 | He wo n't fancy a needling match on these terms . |
| 6 | Having sailed up the M1 in Kev 's car through the monsoon , we did n't fancy the final swim up the road to the Imperial . |
| 7 | Says one Norton executive : ‘ Even Honda ca n't design a new bike in a matter of months . |
| 8 | If you have electrolysis for unwanted hair , do n't expose the treated area to the sun for at least 24 hours . |
| 9 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 10 | Zambia had begun to watch one of the movies with Nathan , but could n't dispel the nagging worry about Tammuz . |
| 11 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |
| 12 | There 's a raging controversy right now about which guitars sustain better — a glued-on neck , a neck through body or a bolt-on — when in my opinion it does n't make a damn bit of difference . |
| 13 | There 's a raging controversy right now about which guitars sustain better — a glued-on neck , a neck through body or a bolt-on — when in my opinion it does n't make a damn bit of difference . |
| 14 | I was only telling you that I 'm going to be busy , and would n't make a good companion for you . ’ |
| 15 | I suppose I did n't make a good impression on her . |
| 16 | Wayne told Pilar , ‘ The son-of-a-bitch ca n't make a good movie without his father or Bogart to carry him . ’ |
| 17 | It did n't make a great occasion for me , though I think the backstage tension did contribute something to the success of the production . |
| 18 | But , I mean , do , to be more realistic , I mean , o , if , obviously if , if all the government took a fifty percent pay cut it still would n't make a great deal of difference ? |
| 19 | So it did n't make a great deal of difference really , you know , you you 'd still got er some jurisdiction over them even though they were the foreman like . |
| 20 | She had intended to return to London that afternoon , but one more night would n't make a great deal of difference . |
| 21 | The first point is that you ca n't make a meaningful choice of subjects without adequate information . |
| 22 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 23 | In happy marriages the partners do n't make a big deal of minor irritations . |
| 24 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 25 | Do n't make a big thing of it . |
| 26 | Did n't make a blind bit of difference . |
| 27 | As for the meeting , it wo n't make a blind bit of difference and the people of Darlington do n't care anyway . |
| 28 | You would n't make a special cake as a present with long out-of-date flour and stale eggs so do n't think that any old ingredients will do for making a pressed flower picture . |
| 29 | As the only bridesmaid , she had been following Liz up the aisle of the small country church , nervously clutching her bouquet of trailing greenery and praying that she would n't make the awful mistake of treading on the long train of Liz 's wedding dress . |
| 30 | He says : ‘ There is no place in the group for units that are subsidised or do n't make the right sort of return on capital employed . ’ |