Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] n't [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It only did n't happen that way once to a friend of mine .
2 It just does n't make any sense .
3 ‘ Believe me , ’ says Keith , ‘ if we could plug into a box and get all these sounds , we 'd be doing it , but it just does n't work that way .
4 It just does n't happen that often . "
5 when its like that it tries and pulls you down , and this is why there was an accident with a Wessex or something or a Sea King a while ago , where three or four people died , cos it just did n't get enough height and as , as it got to the top it just pulled it straight down to the ground , it could n't , it did n't have enough height to clear the circle
6 It just did n't like that sinking feeling . ’
7 What I 'll do is I 'll read you the first paragraph of rule six and actually bend the rule and put those words in and it really does n't make any sense at all , so listen carefully on this one and do n't be surprised if you do n't understand me .
8 Erm however erm it it does sound as though it 's one of these policies where as I suspected and said earlier today that it really does n't have any effect on anything and it 's probably something that could be erm crossed out and nobody would even notice it had gone .
9 Okay , we could have measured that and given it as part of a spec listing , but because it really did n't feel any different ( probably because its fingerboard width , radius and frets echoed most of the competition ) that fact was rendered almost inconsequential .
10 THE MOST interesting thing about the way the Immediate label was run was the fact that , as this set proves , it really did n't have much more of an idea what was hot and what was not than the majors it was supposed to supplant .
11 Oh , it simply did n't make any kind of sense !
12 Er it certainly does n't do that .
13 It therefore does n't offer any ventilation bonus like an open fire does , but it has the advantage that it does n't suffer from back-draughts , which can blow smoke and fumes back into the room from open flues .
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