Example sentences of "[verb] n't [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | What 's in it for the businesses is this : at the moment they can see Eastern Europe as an emerging market , but it 's very difficult to get in there because the hard cash and the skills that they need do n't exist in those countries , but they want to do something , they want to demonstrate their interest , they want to make contact , and what Enterprise Europe gives them is the opportunity to make a good business contact amongst one the young generation of er of business leaders in those countries er in order , and keep those contacts in order that when they do have an opportunity to go into those markets they 've got some young people there to start off with . |
2 | ‘ But I 'll see you do n't suffer for this , Ellen . |
3 | No , I did n't think that , you see I do n't worry about that . |
4 | Nice people did n't think about such things , which was why child-abuse and wife-beating went frequently unremarked . |
5 | Men did n't think about such things . |
6 | But he did n't think about that now . |
7 | Love Lane ( what a place for a cop shop ! ) was n't actually the nearest nick to where we were , but I did n't think about that . |
8 | I did n't think about that . |
9 | Well I , I did n't think about that , all three without was easier , but I think four with would have been better . |
10 | You did n't think at all , ’ John said . |
11 | Was happily pottering about there , did my own thing , I had to open about nine cards when I got home , I did n't think at all |
12 | Well I I I mean there i thinking back , I did n't think at that stage , I hope I 'm right about this , th that I had any idea that Geoffrey Howe was going to resign . |
13 | Well erm er , well yes of course , I did n't think of that . |
14 | We did n't think of that . ’ |
15 | ‘ She did n't think of that , ’ said my mother . |
16 | ‘ I did n't think of that . ’ |
17 | Yeah , under the Conservatives that , if you 'd been under Labour you would of lost about four hundred did n't think of that though did you , did n't think your own son |
18 | You did n't think of that did you ? |
19 | I did n't think of that . |
20 | I did n't think of that you know |
21 | Now I did n't think of that because again I was fairly new , but the lad that was doing the job said Oh do n't worry Neal we 'll sort this out . |
22 | And , whereas , her father he , he did n't think of much of the girls at all did he ? |
23 | It 's a useful way of getting a perspective on the present , to realize that people think and feel in such different ways , in totally alien ways , that are completely unsympathetic , which is why feminism is an interesting development , because the ability to read something written in a totally patriarchal tradition , and to make the sympathetic adjustment , giving him his due , recognizing that he could n't have thought what you think , because people did n't think like that then … . |
24 | The idea , too , that ‘ people did n't think like that then ’ is significant ; we do not know , of course , how many people at a certain point in a history were ( for example ) feminists , who were prevented from writing about their views , or whose writings have been forgotten or lost . |
25 | But Shirley Millings , who left school at fifteen , did n't think like this . |
26 | Mark Kozelek did n't sleep at all last night . |
27 | Did n't sleep at all last night . |
28 | She did n't sleep at all that night . |
29 | I did n't sleep at all until , one daybreak , I sank into unconsciousness for several hours . |
30 | I did n't sleep at all last night . |