Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He he did n't make one at the same time as , you know , to actually show the folds and that |
| 2 | ‘ I shall get into something comfortable , ’ she said , ‘ and then I sha n't want anything for the whole afternoon . ’ |
| 3 | If they answer the phone and say they do n't know anything about the bed-and-breakfast bookings , a customer could be lost immediately . |
| 4 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 5 | But , even if you do n't know anything about the deeper workings , you can apply some common sense guidelines to the same effect . |
| 6 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 7 | And do n't buy one with the front headlamp glass missing : they 're almost impossible to replace . |
| 8 | If you 're gay you 're reviled , but Cube has always revealed the sick shit from the grubby corners of his mind , and you ca n't expect someone from the wasted landscape of black urban America to think like a white liberal . |
| 9 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 10 | The GenTech labs could n't do anything about the common cold and no government had been able to develop a workable public transport system , but when it came to deathware , why , there were wonderful new toys on the market every fall , just in time for Christmas . |
| 11 | If it did n't , it would n't achieve anything like the stupendous accuracy that I have described . |
| 12 | God does n't give anything to the idle ! |
| 13 | I ca n't remember anything about the whole evening . |
| 14 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
| 15 | He 's a very good short story writer , but I do n't see anybody with the same mixture of writerly craft and stamina which Greene had . |
| 16 | At first we could n't see anything on the white backing but then Eadred brought across a candle , held it near the page , not quite close enough to scorch , and sea-green writing began to appear . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't see anything beyond the third target , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Wise up Buddy , and — sorry to use a cliché here — do n't tar everybody with the same brush . |
| 19 | Wise up Buddy , and — sorry to use a cliché here — do n't tar everybody with the same brush . |
| 20 | I 'm not looking Paul do n't tar everybody with the same brush . |
| 21 | Pardon , do n't tar everybody with the same brush . |
| 22 | * Do n't read everything in the same way ( see pp. 39 – 41 ) . |
| 23 | We did n't have one on the last play . |
| 24 | You could n't have one without the other or there 'd be no room for us all . |
| 25 | Clearly to have the combination of an off bore sight capability for a a missile such as A S R A A M , the er advance short range air to air missile , the combination of the agility of the weapon and the flat platform together has been shown to be really needed , you ca n't have one without the other and that somebody who has only agility in the aircraft or agility in the in the weapon , will lose against somebody who has it in both . |
| 26 | schools and they 'll They probably wo n't manage anything in the next week because the schools are going on holiday at |
| 27 | Internationally patented , Brewking is free of chemicals and sold widely in Europe , particularly in Germany where the nation 's drinkers wo n't drink anything but the purest beer . |
| 28 | Until any of the other ones bear fruit , because the Guildhall I ca n't get anything on the elections till April the sixth , erm I ca n't get anything from the Scottish tapes until they start arriving , erm whatever . |
| 29 | I said to mum she need n't , mum did n't get none of the bleeding details . |
| 30 | It 's puzzling that the British public seems to share this feeling of worship for Russian dancers , yet does n't extend anything like the same respect to its own . |