Example sentences of "[not/n't] do [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 2 | I just could not do without a diary that starts on Monday . |
| 3 | But we have already seen above that we can not do without an intensification of growth , the development of this petty-bourgeois farm . |
| 4 | One will not do without the other . |
| 5 | Puzzled , he wondered if she had gone upstairs to her children , which she did not do as a rule , and was about to ascend ; when from up there came a great cry , and the sound of a fall from the window . |
| 6 | Where these problems are absent there appears to be little that a reasonably fit older person can not do with an efficiency equivalent to a high proportion of younger workers ( see Stones and Kozma , 1985 for a good survey of research findings in this field ) : ‘ It is clear that as a piece of anatomical and physiological machinery , the human organism becomes progressively impaired from the late twenties onwards . |
| 7 | E. M. WELLINGS objects to the inconsistencies over what a bowler may or may not do to the ball |
| 8 | The other reason is that Sir David is well aware that the sort of low-grade ‘ sex scandal ’ which is grist to the mil of the News of the Screws will not do in a paper that speaks to the Better Bred . |
| 9 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 10 | TATTOO WO N'T DO FOR A JOB |
| 11 | Erm , I mean I think if we 're wishing to analyse the application , I I think we must consider what it does n't do for the village , and I think there are a number of aspects that have to be considered , erm , first of all as a village , and I 've heard in this very Parish Council that the reputed view made that there is a need for small village accommodation , this development certainly does not provide that , we 've also expressed a view that it would be nice to retain the existing bungalow , because that is small village accommodation , and although it only has a very limited history , again it would be nice to retain it as an integral part of the village . |
| 12 | I would n't do without the doorstep delivery . |
| 13 | Stuff you could n't do as a drummer because you would have to follow the snare drum at the same time |
| 14 | There are certain things I wo n't do as a manager . |
| 15 | nevertheless , there are many films that undermine this argument , suggesting that British character wo n't do as an explanation of poor filmmaking . |
| 16 | ‘ I know it all sounds good , ’ she says , ‘ but what I want most of all is to spend more time with my little girl — and that 's the one thing I ca n't do at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't do in a minute |