Example sentences of "it [verb] n't [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words may be brilliant , the sentences may be perfectly constructed but it has n't got that life in it that the more spontaneous talking will have , and it 's less persuasive . |
| 2 | No , but it do n't work that way |
| 3 | yet it did n't feel that way to the young doctors . |
| 4 | But it did n't happen that way . |
| 5 | Well , it did n't happen that way . |
| 6 | It did n't work that way at all . |
| 7 | It did n't help that Mom had candy and nuts in dishes all over the house . |
| 8 | A married woman with three children , Karen believed that all lovemaking was rape , even when it did n't seem that way to either of the participants . |
| 9 | Robyn asked coolly , aware that this was in danger of turning into a real humdinger of a slanging match — if it had n't achieved that status already ! |
| 10 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 11 | It had n't worked that way . |
| 12 | Though he might have intended to remain cool and detached , unmoved , it had n't worked that way . |
| 13 | As though it does n't matter that time is going on . |
| 14 | Well , it , it does n't mean that permission has to be granted at Finmere , but it , it would make it more difficult to refuse . |
| 15 | It can get no leverage from the sides of the hole since it does n't fill that hole . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , perhaps , it does n't work that way as most younger teens show a commendable desire to make up their own minds on subjects such as this . |
| 17 | It does n't work that way . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Seriously ; it does n't work that way ; neither of us can leave it alone . |
| 19 | It does n't work that way and you ca n't measure it . |
| 20 | It does n't work that way . |
| 21 | It does n't work that way . ’ |
| 22 | It does n't work that way though . |
| 23 | There are destroyers behind the wings , maybe , but they do n't play a jolly little team game , it does n't work that way . |
| 24 | Now , of course , it may well be that er all this is completely crazy and it does n't work that way , and that my hypothesis about these things erm are , are quite wrong . |
| 25 | Yeah it does n't work that way does it ? |
| 26 | you 've got to keep your hand moving er but there 's a temptation to try to er put more on so that it is thicker you know , but it does n't work that way you know |
| 27 | No it does n't work that way . |
| 28 | It does n't work that way in the rag trade that . |
| 29 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 30 | Do n't do this , cos it does n't work that way . |