Example sentences of "n't [verb] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 2 | I did n't stay to see it happen , just went as far up the fields as I could go . |
| 3 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 4 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 5 | Last night , Ena Gilmour , Raymond Gilmour 's mother , of Hawthorn Avenue , Johnstone , said : ‘ I will allow myself to be slightly optimistic , I do n't put it any stronger than that because I have been let down before and I do n't want to let myself go too far this time . ’ |
| 6 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 7 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 8 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 9 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 10 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 11 | Father reached out for love and did n't want to let it go . |
| 12 | " You do n't want to let it worry you . |
| 13 | " I do n't want to let you go , but d' you know , I feel so ridiculously happy . |
| 14 | She did n't want to see him leave . |
| 15 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose I just do n't want to see you hurt . ’ |
| 17 | You 've been good to me , Peter , I would n't want to see you hurt by having me around . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't want to see you hurt , ’ he said softly . |
| 19 | She knew how badly one sister had treated you ; she quite obviously did n't want to see you become associated with the other … ’ |
| 20 | I do n't want to see it end in tragedy . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Nana , do n't want to see it 'gain , ’ yelled Celia through her tears . |
| 22 | And frankly I think it and I hope to God that John I d I know he does n't want to see it happen to him , I hope to God it does n't . |
| 23 | She did n't want to hear what he would say , did n't want to compound this foolishness with more folly , did n't want to hear him gloat at her easy capitulation . |
| 24 | She did n't want to hear him say it ; it would only drive the pain she felt deeper into the heart . |
| 25 | , you wo n't want to hear you blow a thing . |
| 26 | Right , you 've got to make it sound really interesting , let me switch this thing off cos they do n't want to hear you read again I do n't suppose |
| 27 | I shut the door behind me , because I do n't want to hear it crash as I walk down the path . |
| 28 | I do n't have to ask you what I should do in my spare time , and — and I suppose now you wo n't want to help me find my mother , and that 's all right with me , I do n't care ! ’ |
| 29 | The people do n't want to help you unload because they do n't want you to go … |
| 30 | Erm not a not a a good thing to do when I when I said necessary , without it a lot of people would er I do n't know er aggravate I do n't want to make it say more drastic than it is . |