Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] n't do " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 2 | ‘ Ards just did n't do enough . |
| 3 | So I jus , I just did n't do it . |
| 4 | Yesterday did n't do anything . |
| 5 | as you turn it up , it 's gon na pull straight , that bit still did n't do it so we went to the other side , put the cramp the other way and having put that one down and that one up , now if you sight that now through there |
| 6 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 7 | You often hear managers say that : ' I 've run out of ideas on how to deal with him … ’ or ‘ she could do so much better but I just ca n't seem to make any progress … ’ or ‘ he simply did n't do what I asked … ’ |
| 8 | From condoms to unwanted babies , from love to the danger of AIDS , this new generation of 13 to 16-year-olds shatter the old image of spotty schoolboys who boast about what they did — or more likely did n't do — behind the bike shed . |
| 9 | As Andy admits : ‘ It certainly did n't do us any harm . |
| 10 | You certainly did n't do it for the money . |
| 11 | Erm but er I 'd just like to add that that , that was n't relating to Bill because he certainly did n't do that . |