Example sentences of "[verb] n't [vb infin] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | er because er her children but erm say that we we did n't want to sort of upset her by erm you know |
| 5 | " I did n't mean to distress you . " |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I did n't mean to distress you , ’ said Melissa softly . |
| 7 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |
| 8 | ‘ Why I did n't go to bed with Warren Beatty ’ by actress Sean Young |
| 9 | WHY I DID N'T GO TO BED WITH WARREN BEATTY |
| 10 | did n't go to bed about five in the morning |
| 11 | Well we erm we did n't go to bed till did we ? |
| 12 | But Peach did n't go to Bale 's or to his former home in Hilderbridge . |
| 13 | I did n't go to university , Nigel did . |
| 14 | Even if things did n't go to plan , we 'd still have a useful resort property … |
| 15 | Well perhaps that 's why she did n't go to sleep . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't go to work thinking about the Nobel Prize . |
| 17 | And one did n't go to work , one went on watch ; pulling the blackout curtains was called darkening ship ; and no one went to the lavatory , they went to the heads ! |
| 18 | Then he did n't go to work for two days . |
| 19 | If they did n't want the coal they did n't go to work . |
| 20 | She did n't go to work today . |
| 21 | Oh his very calm , very calm , and I 'm still going to work , I did n't go to work while , I went too work while he was in hospital , and when he first came out . |
| 22 | Oh yeah , yeah , he did n't go to school in Harlow |
| 23 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 24 | I 'm not a gentleman myself , and I did n't go to school , but I 've got you , Pip ! |
| 25 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 26 | we did n't go to school after all , is n't it ? |
| 27 | Good job we did n't go to school after all , cos you 'd of run round in the playground , you 'd of been shattered ! oops , too late ! |
| 28 | He had been to school originally because that 's what she said he , then he did n't go to school and that 's why she said you know , how is he and she said |
| 29 | this guy got absolutely marvellous but they were full of it and they said we just learned it we did n't , we did n't go to school or anything like that , we |
| 30 | Oh we did n't go to bingo . |