Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she did n't think money ought to stop people living , actually living : making their lives little when they could be big . |
| 2 | He remembered the gate at the end of the track , had time to hope it was open because he did n't think Conker could jump it . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't think childbirth was normally as difficult as this . ’ |
| 4 | He did n't think FoE 's study was a ‘ particularly good piece of scientific work ’ but ‘ did n't want to rubbish it ’ . |
| 5 | What worried him was that the man was somehow rejecting the film , announcing that he did n't think life was really like that . |
| 6 | I did n't think anythink like this was going to happen . ’ |
| 7 | Meredith waved ; he did n't think Bunny saw him . |
| 8 | The Capellans did n't prohibit research , not in so many words ; they simply assured humankind that for them , with their small brains , the mechanics of hyperspatial foreshortening would be incomprehensible . |
| 9 | Hoomey thought she did n't speak English very well ; she spoke Punjabi to the family , but Mr Singh always spoke English and Jazz only spoke gook to his mother , not to anyone else . |
| 10 | The only lingua franca this lot shared was English , and they did n't speak English . |
| 11 | The prostitute , who did n't speak English , demanded to know what was happening . |
| 12 | The official languages of Zimbala were Swahili and French ; and several of the Zimbalan delegates did n't speak English . |
| 13 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 14 | It is true that we did n't speak Polish — well , a few words maybe : Tak , nie , dziękuje . |
| 15 | The fact that she was free did n't alter Fen 's situation . |
| 16 | Er , summat had ran into back of bus , I do n't know what it 'd done to , whatever behind us but it did n't hurt bus . |
| 17 | He also noted how people dressed and admired the motor vehicles that belched out fumes but did n't drop shit as they travelled down the middle of the road . |
| 18 | But the man did n't quote Scripture , just drifted away . |
| 19 | Chasing after Julius in that oh , so subtle and ladylike way , looking down that elegant nose of hers at Jessamy because she did n't wear designer clothes or lead a sophisticated social life , silently sneering at her because she had lost Julius just as she , Eleanor , had always predicted she would . |
| 20 | She did n't wear Salvation Army uniform in school , but she used to visit a Goodwill centre in Bethnal Green and nothing of note escapes the eager eyed cockney . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a wonder you did n't wear lipstick to Gran 's funeral . ’ |
| 22 | I did n't wear maternity clothes . |
| 23 | if you had to go and try a garment on , you deliberately did n't wear underwear or |
| 24 | He did n't wear aftershave — she liked that . |
| 25 | ‘ My dad did n't welcome death and we were broken-hearted , ’ Mrs Redmond said . |
| 26 | After his record-breaking exploits with Wigan , Iro did n't strike gold in his two years at Manly . |
| 27 | I did n't pass comment . |
| 28 | If she did n't bring help soon Joe would die . |
| 29 | Tennis may have brought him fame and fortune , but it still did n't bring happiness to Boris Becker . |
| 30 | Somebody once said to me they think it 's really rude if they did n't bring wine to a , to a dinner party and then they do n't have to have to drink it . |