Example sentences of "[verb] n't [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chair , we do class as unsatisfactory those samples that the laboratory would covers do n't reach certain standards , whatever the standard may be , and that 's why we concentrate on that figure that the bathing unsatisfactory at one particular pool , where there was a serious problem . |
| 2 | You see they do n't want finicky stuff , they want er a large pay packet fo , er stamping er envelopes . |
| 3 | Well do the best you can er I do n't want exact words obviously but what was the burden of what he was the gist , the effects of what he was saying ? |
| 4 | One might avoid the objection , following R. M. Hare , by interpreting ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ as itself prescriptive , a logical imperative equivalent to ‘ Do n't get sick ’ disguised by the grammatically indicative form . |
| 5 | ‘ After all , you do n't find conductors like Toscanini , De Sabata and Mitropoulos wasting their time on a work that they did n't think worthy of their efforts . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't imagine her jumping over anything and I did n't think old ladies should mention their undergarments . |
| 7 | It did n't sink darling it floated on the top , so we really need that one in there but I tell you what we 'll do , because you 've tr , written it so nicely we 'll put a little arrow and we 'll put there , that means that goes in there , alright , that 's smashing now all you need to do now is write your name on it |
| 8 | If negro girls did n't wear white coats and white shoes , you 'd bump into them in dark streets ! |
| 9 | We 've had a lot about politics this morning , and if the Labour Party wants to mobilize working women many of them who did n't vote Labour at the last election here is a ready made campaign to take into the next election . |
| 10 | Maybe ‘ I did n't vote Tory ’ , but even that does not enable me to opt out of that responsibility entirely . |
| 11 | So he certainly did n't pay due care to the pace and the speed and make sure that he 'd got a safe gap before pulling out . |
| 12 | You did n't grow big cars but you 've grown much bigger flowers than we did . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid so , but it probably did n't last long and he may not have cried out . |
| 14 | But she did n't stand still for long . |
| 15 | They did n't do nice things like that . |
| 16 | You did n't do new geography did you ? |
| 17 | Pity they did n't do other stuff besides |
| 18 | But you do realize you would be lynched if you did n't do Poor Man , |
| 19 | Did n't do commercial . |
| 20 | They did n't do bad did they ? |
| 21 | So , she did n't do bad did she ? |
| 22 | We did n't do bad at all tonight seeing we were late . |
| 23 | We did n't do bad here , it was quite quick actually |
| 24 | He did n't tell long stories like Patsy did , or wistful tales like Dekko Moore about the time he made harnesses for the Lords of the Soil somewhere down in Meath . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't tell Lucile anything . |
| 26 | Portentous ‘ Suppose there was a power that did n't add to the voice , greenhouse effect ; that did n't burn limited fossil turning kind : fuel . |
| 27 | Let it get gamey and he 's erm Chinese assistant the person who has been assigned to sort of look after him and do his do his translating and things like that took it down and buried it cause they did n't eat rotten meat they did |
| 28 | A defence spokesman yesterday said : ‘ We did n't send armoured vehicles there because we did n't think it was dangerous . ’ |
| 29 | So , got there , did n't want bloody car . |
| 30 | She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy . |