Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your steel-mesh underflesh has n't quite knitted properly . |
| 2 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
| 3 | My mum has n't even noticed yet . |
| 4 | Joanne , 13 , says simply : ‘ Mum has n't just looked after her own children , she has looked after so many others . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you sure , ’ said Simon , speaking slowly as if to someone with a poor knowledge of English , ‘ that Gazzer has n't already got the money ? |
| 6 | But gossip has n't always had such bad press . |
| 7 | But football has n't always landed the 6ft 3in ‘ keeper so squarely on his feet three frustrating years at Spurs left him ‘ thoroughly pigged off ’ he admits . |
| 8 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 9 | Fortunately the actress has n't ever faced the situation for real . |
| 10 | ‘ You look quite tired , and term has n't even started . |
| 11 | The problem certainly runs in families , although research has n't yet identified a genetic basis . |
| 12 | But today 's demonstration did n't quite go to plan . |
| 13 | Bonanza did n't even bother to look at Jackson . |
| 14 | Any purely dog-orientated career opportunities within the association do n't really exist . |
| 15 | Fortunately the coughing did n't really matter so far as Tinkerbell was concerned … the light is supposed to flash erratically … but the noise was rather off-putting . |
| 16 | One version circulating at the Palace is that Her Majesty realised that Her Other Majesty did n't yet know the result when she arrived for their weekly get-together . |
| 17 | Her conscious mind did n't even register it , nor the weeds of blue awareness that tangled at the edge of her mind . |
| 18 | The guys running the club do n't really know what they 're doing . |
| 19 | The jogging did n't really help his writing . |
| 20 | For when Erik and her husband , Trevor , from Oxford , eventually decided to tie the knot after living together for eight years , the prospect of a conventional white wedding did n't even enter their heads . |
| 21 | In Ireland , where the rugby population is , even at the most optimistic estimate , around a mere 20,000 , the base of the pyramid is obviously narrow and talent does n't just grow on trees . |
| 22 | Talent does n't necessarily mean facility . |
| 23 | Talent does n't always come in huge packages — remember Mark Todd 's brilliant event horse Charisma , who was only 15.3hh ? |
| 24 | Another group of researchers , this time in Sweden , has discovered that this protective effect does n't only last for as long as the baby is breastfed . |
| 25 | But a dry shave does n't always give him the results he wants . |
| 26 | But a dry shave does n't always give him the results he wants . |
| 27 | Having the same financial people on either side does n't just make for faster communication . |
| 28 | In other words you can have what goes on in the brain at the hardware level does or at the level of nuance does n't necessarily have to correlate with what goes on at a high level description . |
| 29 | It was obvious that the news of a murder had n't yet spread . |
| 30 | Danon does n't quite capture the swing that ties these dances to their Romanian background ( the folktunes are genuine ) — perhaps surprisingly , in view of his Yugoslav origins : it 's only down the road , after all . |