Example sentences of "n't [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talkative driver had n't stopped chatting from the moment Mark had entered the cab . |
| 2 | ‘ Your uncle , as you know , comes in at ten past twelve on the dot and Carrie a few minutes after , that is if she has n't stopped to gaze in the shops . |
| 3 | If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home . |
| 4 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 5 | Did you like horses , you do n't fancy getting on the back of one ? |
| 6 | Besides , I did n't fancy going to the Chapel and having all the family looking down their noses at me . |
| 7 | I thought we could have lunch in the garden after your inspection — I 've already arranged for the fridge to be restocked — and afterwards , if you do n't fancy going to the beach , we could go out in my boat , or I 'll take you for a tour of North Zealand , through the quaint old villages with their farmhouses and gardens full of hollyhocks and the beech woods . |
| 8 | He 's gon na come in the car and she does n't fancy walking in the night . |
| 9 | You do n't fancy coming in the morning , no ? |
| 10 | Having been freed from NHS control and from any control by local people , trust managers were now saying they did n't want to answer to the Health Secretary either . |
| 11 | Wayne had rung in to say that he was sick , which meant that the little creep did n't want to drive past the picket line . |
| 12 | Because we are er developers of a core accounting package which we hope will have many many hundreds of users before the end of this decade , we did n't want to rely on the vendor of a particular Four G L , so we 've written our product in C to retain that independence within there . |
| 13 | Let's face it , do n't want get to the table anyway . |
| 14 | I do n't want to see inside the castle , I just want to walk around the outside and sketch anything that looks interesting . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't want to go over the machine , ’ said Evelyn . |
| 16 | I did n't want to go through the arguments for and against . |
| 17 | You do n't want to go to the police , because you 're afraid they 'll simply get involved in another siege — if you can make them believe you in time , which seems doubtful . |
| 18 | Fiona returned , pulling on a fluffy white wrap over her red silk dress , saying she really did n't want to go to the dinner and being persuaded again by her husband . |
| 19 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 20 | My Better Half 's always maintained , and I agree with him , if they do n't want to go to the Church then we wo n't force them . |
| 21 | If you do n't want to go to the expense of buying them , check out the travel section at your local library . |
| 22 | If you do n't want to go to the expense and trouble of covering your walls with natural fabrics like hessian , grasscloth , or cork , there 's a lot of imitations available . |
| 23 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 24 | He does n't want to go to the police . |
| 25 | Since he wanted to delay the ceremony , but did n't want to go to the trouble of desecrating any graves , he only had one option . |
| 26 | That 's why I did n't want to go to the edge because I wanted to try and do my own . |
| 27 | That 's why you do n't want to go to the police . |
| 28 | You do n't want to go to the party crying , do you ? ’ … |
| 29 | Shelley said vehemently , ‘ I do n't want to go to the cove . |
| 30 | ‘ Graham has made it perfectly clear he does n't want to go to the West Indies next winter — but he 's said those sort of things before about touring and has ended up going . ’ |