Example sentences of "n't [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems she does ; you would n't persist in a story that will be disproved as soon as I meet Mr and Mrs Smith , but I do n't believe you 're identical twins . |
| 2 | 10 Do n't persist in a procedure that fails to work . |
| 3 | ‘ Once you are back in England , there are a thousand other things to do : bills to pay , shopping , other sides to living that do n't exist in a place like Antarctica , where there is no telephone , and no other people for thousands of miles . ’ |
| 4 | No cos if I have n't heard in a fortnight you know you 're not getting any in . |
| 5 | So erm you ca n't even see the things you 're looking at , I do n't think in a group for the , for the reason Heather said , because what will happen is , you will see reflecting individual , the values and aspirations of the group and especially the , the disturbing effects of the other members and the leader . |
| 6 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 7 | The Colonel would n't know in a lifetime . |
| 8 | I ca n't afford to get fat , not like you — a stone or so overweight wo n't matter in a shop , will it ? ’ |
| 9 | I got I got you , I wo n't land in a convent for |
| 10 | ‘ I should n't think he wants to , ’ Perkin remarked as I had n't answered in a rush . |
| 11 | In the book I found a Spanish proverb that runs , No se ganó Zamora en una hora — ‘ Zamora is n't reached in an hour ’ , which is the equivalent of our ‘ Rome was n't built in a day ’ . |
| 12 | But they 've got to realise that Rome was n't built in a day ! |
| 13 | Rome , he well knows , was n't built in a day . |
| 14 | I ca n't do in a minute |
| 15 | But if you 're stuck on Scale 1 for years you do n't feel in a position to try anything new . |
| 16 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 17 | I could n't work in a car factory |
| 18 | But the consultant in charge of accident and emergency says a ticket system similar to a supermarket would n't work in a hospital … |
| 19 | But the plant ca n't work in a group unless they have in order to evaluate or you know or other people sharing other people listening to those ideas and saying what was that idea again . |
| 20 | HIRE-EM , fire-em — his winning policy at Ibrox — wo n't work in a League where he 's not the biggest fish with the deepest purse . |
| 21 | but thing is there 's a lot lot of like Lee 's friends and that and they say well I could n't work in a shoe shop and I would n't work in a , and I say why ? |
| 22 | It is obviously useful to be able to look up words that you ca n't remember in a dictionary , but in addition you will find that the more you work on your dictionary , whether it is on a computer or on cards , the more you memorise your vocabulary . |
| 23 | Neither my wins in the European Championships and European Cup nor my two British records had ever made the front page — but the fact that I would n't run in a relay team had . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't run in a gown , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Yeah , yeah and they 're sort of grey , I 'm not sure if she got them in a charity , I 'm certainly sure it was n't bought in a shoe shop , cos she goes round every charity , she wo n't go in , you know I told you about that , oh I do n't know what it is , she said it 's loaded out with stuff and we 'll have to have a walk round there , erm , round by what was Kennedy 's , erm |
| 26 | So you do n't believe in a vision of one Nation , in the Republican sense of the word ? |
| 27 | ‘ I almost begin to believe you did n't know about Berenice , but I still do n't believe in a sister who does n't exist , ’ he said slowly . |
| 28 | At one time in his life , he did n't sleep in a bed for four whole years . |
| 29 | So the council informed Seth if I do n't move in a month I 'll have to put an application in |
| 30 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |