Example sentences of "[verb] n't [vb infin] anything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you just But as we were saying er talking to Janet afterwards there was another little one down at the side , erm mum was getting a bit irate with him , but you see they do n't take anything for the children to do . |
| 2 | He did n't think anything of it . |
| 3 | I did n't think anything of it . |
| 4 | As the corporate lawyer put it , when asked why he went along with producing completely bogus insurance policies as part of the Equity Funding Scandal : ‘ I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 5 | I did n't think anything of it ; it was something the company needed done , that 's all ’ ( Blundell 1978:171 ) . |
| 6 | She did n't think anything of a personal nature had entered the conversation . |
| 7 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
| 8 | I did n't think anything of it . |
| 9 | Er you know I I I af I mean after I did n't think anything of it , and in those days I was too young of course to think of th things like that . |
| 10 | It seemed early for Mum to be back but I did n't think anything of it . |
| 11 | And it was coming on then , but I did n't think anything of it , cos I , I had n't had , had n't got anything to eat all day |
| 12 | You know I mean I did n't think anything of it and I thought well I 'm a bit like that though too cos I say things about people and then I 'll talk to them |
| 13 | Did n't think anything to it at the time . |
| 14 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |
| 15 | I wore a wonderful panama outside , but I did n't wear anything in hospital . |
| 16 | It got phased out so that the Ministry did n't pay anything at all but to get this grant you had to keep tremendous records copies of invoices and you had to get er and the bus grant and the , the permission from them . |
| 17 | Well that 's one the other reason , of course we have got a large number of chur , very small churches in fact , looking at our mai , ministry figures nineteen ninety there were thirty churches that did n't pay anything to the maintenance and a lot of these , I think , maybe |
| 18 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 19 | ‘ You did n't do anything about it ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And she did n't do anything about it ? ’ |
| 21 | And whatever she did with her hair , it still , thought Henry , did n't do anything for her face — Maisie 's face was still there , round as a dinner plate . |
| 22 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year because nothing was built , ’ she says . |
| 23 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year to see what would come up , and we had constant , wonderful surprises . |
| 24 | It did n't do anything for the tenants of this city or did n't put any new proposals forward . |
| 25 | and they did n't do anything for me , so anyhow I 've started taking two , they have helped a bit |
| 26 | You see , and she did n't do anything for her birthday , the stupid cow . |
| 27 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 28 | The hare and the hatter also decide to put the poor little dormouse into the teapot , which is rather cruel because he did n't do anything to them and it is rather a strange thing for his companions to do . |
| 29 | I mean he kept , I mean he did n't do anything to the city you ca n't even see it from the old one 's still standing and it 's in the wrong it 's so nice . |
| 30 | But old habits die hard and I did n't do anything of the sort , but sat there pleasantly planning my new wardrobe , with the clothing coupons and the sum of money that a grateful Government had allowed me . |