Example sentences of "n't [verb] [adv] [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I like the carpenter best — if he did n't eat so many as the walrus . ’ |
| 2 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 3 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 4 | Also it 's kind of er even if you er sort of different people do n't , I mean a lot of people do n't discuss as much as we do . |
| 5 | Erm er just made an observation about er experience in hospital with children and apparently when kids have been in hospital for a length of time they do n't object so much when you go along and stick a the |
| 6 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 7 | it does n't matter very much if the story ‘ really ’ happened . |
| 8 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 9 | In most cases this does n't matter too much as the speed of the machine can be controlled by software instead . |
| 10 | Frau Hoflin hoped it had n't been an affair , but even if it had , well , things were different these days and it did n't matter too much as long as it was over . |
| 11 | Maybe it did n't matter so much if you were old . |
| 12 | It does n't matter so much if the document is to be a one-off , although it obviously helps fairly significantly if the material can actually be read . |
| 13 | I mean while she had her career it did n't matter so much because I was there . |
| 14 | ‘ Any suggestion that the one-day internationals do n't matter as much as the Tests is not right and is certainly at variance with the way the players view it . ’ |
| 15 | It all seemed to emphasise that , in the era of the All Ireland League , the Senior Cup just does n't matter as much as it used to . |
| 16 | But as factory shops can vary between visits anyway , that probably does n't matter that much as you soon get to know your favourites . |
| 17 | we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really . |
| 18 | The responses were later grouped into three categories : ( a ) never smoker — ‘ I have never smoked a cigarette , not even a puff ’ ; ( b ) tried but stopped — ‘ I have only ever tried smoking once or twice but I do n't smoke now , ’ or ‘ I used to smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke now ’ ; ( c ) current smoker — ‘ I smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke as much as one cigarette a week ’ or ‘ I usually smoke between one and six cigarettes a week , ’ or ‘ I usually smoke more than six cigarettes a week . ’ |
| 19 | You 'd think the Roadrunners friends would n't smoke as much as they did . |
| 20 | Wo n't smoke as many if they 're bigger . |
| 21 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 22 | Well at least they have n't done as many as they did , they did last year but they , it looks a lot to me |
| 23 | The iron grip Guy had used to subdue her had relaxed into a hold that now cradled rather than constrained , and yet she could n't lift so much as a finger to defend herself , could barely summon the will to press her face harder against the bed in a futile attempt to escape that warm , spine-tingling touch . |
| 24 | We 've got ta buy players Deane 's having a mare and Hodge is n't premier league material — he 's had a fairly long run in the side and has n't produced as much as Rocky did in his few opportunities . |
| 25 | We 've got ta buy players Deane 's having a mare and Hodge is n't premier league material — he 's had a fairly long run in the side and has n't produced as much as Rocky did in his few opportunities . |
| 26 | and expected she had n't got as much as she |
| 27 | ‘ Have n't laughed so much since General Zia got blown up . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't laughed so much since Grandma caught her tits in the mangle , ’ was the verdict of them all . |
| 29 | It covers quickly and does n't splash as much as the sponge varieties . |
| 30 | Low Birk Hatt has three bedrooms but the back bedroom was n't used very much because it had no fireplace and could n't be heated . |