Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then afraid he might have sounded gallant George added : ‘ Somebody 's got to make sure your military instinct for loot does n't take over . ’ |
| 2 | A man who goes in for abduction does n't merit explanations , and neither , ’ she went on , warming to her subject , ‘ does anyone who can purloin other people 's property , quite deliberately and without conscience , have any right to spout morals at me . ’ |
| 3 | Miracle cures for alcoholism did n't happen . |
| 4 | Yeah well they 're safety things for kids do n't like that Like this one though . |
| 5 | The net six games after Oldham do n't contain a real toughie , so I think 13 points from them is about par . |
| 6 | At the time , playing for Scotland did n't seem very realistic , but I was happy to play for the Anglos ’ . |
| 7 | If a number of investments did n't go wrong we would n't be taking sufficient risks . |
| 8 | In some ways it was good , though a lot of the older generation of vets did n't like it much . |
| 9 | ( Another small trap containing a small band of musicians did n't catch them up until they were on their way back ! ) |
| 10 | Profits are well up , cost reduction obviously played a major part in this and the F T group is er , fifty five percent up on last year and this is against the background of a five percent drop in advertisement volume and we have an eleven percent drop in advertisement volume from the continent of Europe erm , which of course does n't affect other national newspapers . |
| 11 | Er whatever agreements may have been made with the Department of Transport and the County Surveyor regarding the acceptability north east of York of course does n't mean that other locations are also not un not acceptable under this criterion . |
| 12 | The computer , which of course does n't find it at all funny , needs to guess what it is , and needs to rely not just on sentence structure but also on general knowledge about heads , grenades and buckets of sand — general knowledge that computers do n't have unless it is built in to them . |
| 13 | Nigel of course did n't give in to blackmail . |
| 14 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 15 | English society , of course did n't work out that way . |
| 16 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 17 | Oh of course do n't forget yester yesterday erm they allow so many in so you 'd all be going in at the same time |
| 18 | And a lot of people of course do n't go into our shops , so we feel that there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of sympathy for Oxfam 's aims and objectives , but are only lacking just the opportunity to give , and that 's what we hope to provide them with . |
| 19 | And of course do n't get a lot of it , but it was it was |
| 20 | The vast majority of mammals and the vast majority of birds do n't use echolocation , and it is highly probable that their common ancestor did n't either ( nor did it fly — that is another technology that has been independently evolved several times ) . |
| 21 | But these clever pieces of camouflage do n't alter the basic fact : anti-perspirants block your pores . |
| 22 | Those sorts of accounts do n't carry much in the way of other books . ’ |
| 23 | Just because he went to Hollywood and was paid a lot of money does n't mean he was wasting his talent . |
| 24 | The exact quantities of money do n't matter . |
| 25 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 26 | A change of mind does n't fit any of the above criteria , although if the order or advert states that you can have your money back if you have a change of heart , then of course you can . |
| 27 | Marc 's bark of disbelief did n't make her pause . |
| 28 | I think one of the problems is , that a lot of shoppers do n't realize that they 're entering into a contract and we do n't realize it for the simple reason that most people have , as soon as you hear the word contract you have a mental image of a legal document that you sign , do n't you ? |
| 29 | ‘ The notion of tragedy did n't enter my head , ’ she protested , ‘ but it did seem odd for her to break off in the middle of a phone call like that . ’ |
| 30 | Erm well really it 's just what I said , it 's er roughly speaking it 's when er a string of words does n't have the meaning you 'd expect on the basis of the standard semantics of the language , but rather has a fixed different meaning and whenever there 's any apparent structure in it , I E several words , er , their , their normal meanings are irrelevant which is the meaning of the whole phrase . |