Example sentences of "n't [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was n't enough for Paul ; he knew that God was n't limited to human speech and a human mind . |
| 2 | I say it would n't relate to any accent in England anyway |
| 3 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
| 4 | He was n't reacting to that ploy . |
| 5 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |
| 7 | Unlike his mother and Rose-Ann he did n't object to burnt toast , so he buttered it as it was , not pausing to toast the other side of it . |
| 8 | If those devils can wring the necks of chickens and slit the throats of sheep , then they should n't object to some shot , should they ? ’ |
| 9 | I had n't come to any grief by not having a comprehensive view of that crocodile pool , ignorance really was bliss that day ; but when it comes to organizing a major event , failure to see the overall picture from the start can blight the whole business . |
| 10 | I 'm so thankful he has n't come to any harm . |
| 11 | overpower , you know , creep up on you , I , I 'd , it 'd just get the better of me Eric that 's why I got really the other one you see and that , I , I have n't come to any harm not having it , and erm I 've just got to get rid of this because it 's , I 'd do a lot more Eric if it were n't for the television , I know I 'll miss it when I get rid of it you see , it has been described as a plug-in drug |
| 12 | I went back to the beginning and started over , but had n't come to any conclusion when I reached the sign telling me that the Florabelle served the thickest steak in five counties . |
| 13 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
| 14 | So ‘ men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street ’ and of course magazines whose raison d'etre is the presentation of the naked or seminaked female body as a spectacle are n't contributing to this state of affairs , are they ? |
| 15 | But Tony is n't listening to this programme at this moment . |
| 16 | They did n't speak to each other , or to her . |
| 17 | If there is any , any time left the honourable gentleman shall have it , erm the honourable gentleman , the member for Nottingham North did say that he d was n't looking to proportional representation for these elections , I think he was absolutely right , I hope that piece of good sense which he displayed then will be one that wi he will invest his thoughts in when it comes , we come back to these questions later . |
| 18 | You ca n't have drama which does n't refer to other curriculum areas . |
| 19 | I wash it every day and use plenty of light conditioner but I do n't stick to one brand . |
| 20 | ‘ Every new development gets an individual approach — I do n't stick to any formula . |
| 21 | There 's some story about a Mars bar , apparently but we 'ave n't got to that bit yet . |
| 22 | that 'll be the next hurdle , I mean we have n't got to that hurdle . |
| 23 | So that 's purely , I mean and there 's no point in picking you up on that because you just had n't got to that point . |
| 24 | Well anyway erm they it was interesting , they all seemed rather positive and the reason they were positive is because they perceive him as classless , as somebody who 's actually come up the hard way , who 's experienced the down side of life and who 's nevertheless , through hard work and perseverance and so on , triumphed over that , and actually reached the highest post in the land , and erm they seemed to feel that there was a erm that this was a good thing , that somebody who 's had experience of erm the less privileged side of life , somebody who , and I quote ‘ was n't born with a silver spoon in is mouth , and did n't got to public school and that sort of thing knows more about what 's life for the average person ’ and I agree with that . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't remember to this day which one I wore but I remember being totally traumatized by it because it would show favouritism . ’ |
| 26 | They did n't er they they were n't used to industrial action I think it 's fair to say and er they did n't want they were n't quite sure whether you know they they might be taken over by cert well certain political f factions if you like . |
| 27 | She ai n't used to this kind of pressure . |
| 28 | I ai n't used to this sort of thing . |
| 29 | Erm , that is , how can we make sure that erm Plato , or Socrates , does n't descend to this level and then ascend to the one , as everyone else is , erm and then having got up this side somehow come down this ? |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't spend to much time on it unless it seems to have more relevanace to the case . |