Example sentences of "[verb] n't [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What photographer has n't heard of Picture Post — though I suppose the American in me world argue that all those magazines were imitators of Life . ’ |
| 2 | " In more than 22 years , " says American-born Fleur Cowles " I 've never painted anything that has n't relied on imagination and memory . " |
| 3 | This kind of thinking has n't featured in election campaigning , so though friends warn me that I 'll be submerged in a great placid pool of meditation , I 'm off to Dartington to gather a few hints on the ideas that ought to guide our future . |
| 4 | Surely the marquis has n't fallen in love with her as well . " |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'm surprised some rich gentleman has n't fallen in love with her . |
| 6 | And if it has n't arrived within week , telephone number 's on bottom and we 've got to ring to say we have n't got it yet . |
| 7 | Of course , that has n't happened without resistance : married women 's re-entry into the labour market was usually conditional — it was designed not to disturb women 's primary responsibility for domestic work . |
| 8 | There has n't been a switch from the A using the A sixty one er to get across to the A one using the southern bypass , that just has n't happened in practice . |
| 9 | He has n't got over Mum yet . |
| 10 | Oh no but if you look at the responsibility an E O has n't got for scale three , why are we flogging ourselves to death on scale four ? |
| 11 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 12 | It started as a minor incident involving a petrol tanker , but then other vehicles travelling too fast for the foggy conditions found they counld n't stop in time and crashed as well . |
| 13 | That 's not to say I did n't think about sex — I did — and in order to relieve my frustration I would read books , watch videos and practise solitary sex . |
| 14 | Boots did n't think of Body Shop ; it just copied the packaging . |
| 15 | And she knew I did n't care for school . |
| 16 | He did n't care for ambition , perhaps he should have done . |
| 17 | One insisted on cleanliness but did n't care about tidiness , while her husband did n't care about cleanliness but was fanatical about tidiness . |
| 18 | One insisted on cleanliness but did n't care about tidiness , while her husband did n't care about cleanliness but was fanatical about tidiness . |
| 19 | I used to come up quite often and stay for a couple of days and just revel in meeting high-spirited people who did n't care about university politics . |
| 20 | The monsters tried to give me food but I did n't care about eating . |
| 21 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
| 22 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 23 | The company 's response was to issue notice to the original 40 that if they did n't return to work they 'd all be sacked . |
| 24 | I did n't go to Africa , I did n't go to Latin America , I did n't suffer for liberation theology . |
| 25 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 26 | In the late afternoon the Committee pulled its favourite form of persuasion : it went into secret session , with a direction that if he did n't sing in secret he could expect to be jailed for contempt of Congress ( i.e. the committee ) . |
| 27 | I did n't panic like Mum did and I think I calmed him . |
| 28 | Of Tory Michael Fallon she said she did n't like the fact that he did n't vote for dog registration : ‘ I ca n't understand that . ’ |
| 29 | It was empty , Jo was by this time awake ( having crept earlier to bed ) , but she did n't move for fear of her father 's anger interpreting his shouts of rage , she gathered that her mother was gone and realising what damage he could consequently do to her and her baby , she knew that she had to escape . |
| 30 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |