Example sentences of "[vb -s] n't [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I promised Mr Harvey — he does n't care to use his title , Mrs Appleby — that I would go and see if all was in order at Maythorpe House . |
| 2 | You see , when your brain does n't manage to do what teachers want it to , the world can begin to seem an unhappy place . |
| 3 | so he could 've , then he does n't , he does n't manage give them any more . |
| 4 | Yes , that does n't flow does it . |
| 5 | Oh yeah , does n't hurt does it , you 've got nothing to lose |
| 6 | It does n't hurt does it ? |
| 7 | If you drive yourself fairly hard in most areas of your life , it does n't hurt to take the easy option in your leisure time . ’ |
| 8 | No it does n't hurt to write a few letters . |
| 9 | I 'm not interested because it does n't fit does n't cover the type of collecting I do . |
| 10 | if you 've got one bit that ca n't work without another bit , and the bits can be relatively cheap , say may only be about twenty P a bit , but if the twenty P bit does n't arrive to work with the other bit |
| 11 | It 's understood the owner does n't intend to stop his property being repossessed . |
| 12 | Even if Mr Major really means it and he does n't intend to do a Nigel Lawson , a sort of nineteen eighty seven trick , er surely he can almost hardly help himself , because the pound and shares are doing very well at the moment ; we 're told by the economists that there 's a good six months of honeymoon period , er and people feel a great pent up demand , people have a great pent up demand , which is now being released . |
| 13 | He does n't intend to wait any longer . |
| 14 | ‘ Having reached the age of 50 a month ago , Britt was quite content to leave California and settle down somewhere less extravagant but Jim loves Los Angeles and does n't intend to leave the city . ’ |
| 15 | He does n't answer because his press officer has told me beforehand that he does n't intend to talk in any detail about it . |
| 16 | Among manufacturers , Hewlett-Packard Co is one of the furthest down the object-oriented route , and does n't intend to surrender its lead . |
| 17 | If I read him right he does n't intend to marry , so he would n't suit you , would he ? ’ |
| 18 | As a player with Manchester United and England , the 37-year-old university graduate never hid and he certainly does n't intend to start now . |
| 19 | How to Make Money With Computers contains a wealth of essential business advice , which even makes it suitable for the budding entrepreneur who does n't intend to start a computer related business . |
| 20 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 21 | He is on call round-the-clock in Minehead , Somerset , and does n't hesi-tate to turn out in the middle of the night if necessary . |
| 22 | They seldom incorporate weatherstripping , and ordinary galvanised types need regular checks to ensure that any damage does n't lead to rust . |
| 23 | Keegan does n't expect to do business before Sunday 's game with Millwall but is clearly ready for a transfer market breakthrough . |
| 24 | OSF does n't expect to name it before fall . |
| 25 | As reported ( UX No 410 ) , IBM has extended its OEM agreement with fault-tolerant supplier Stratus Computer Inc for another three years , although the fault-tolerant system builder says it does n't expect to get much more business as a result . |
| 26 | Erm it would be wrong to say Wales is a weak region on the basis of this , it 's just not , does n't appear , or does n't expect to grow as strongly as it was growing . |
| 27 | Parsys does n't expect to have the SN9000 ready until ‘ late 1992 ’ — it will take three months or so to bed the new chip in when it does arrive . |
| 28 | He said the firm does n't expect to match that price but claims it will offer twice the performance at just under £5,000 . |
| 29 | KWS ' ‘ Please Do n't Go ’ indicates a commercial bent , but much of this stuff does n't aspire to chart status . |
| 30 | For instance , the verb regret seems to presuppose that its complement is true , and so we could try the following characterization : the sentence John does n't regret cheating can only be used appropriately in contexts where it is known ( or believed ) that John cheated . |