Example sentences of "n't [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think most policeman ca n't relate to sociology at all , because , you see , the way we 're taught everything is black and white : those who do bad should be punished , those who do good should be rewarded . |
| 2 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 3 | I mean you do n't want to kind of put them off too much erm |
| 4 | I do n't want to sort of wade in in response to that , I want other people to er |
| 5 | Right I mean I do n't want to sort of pry into how you do your business that the in the the getting of that information that 's that is relatively straightforward , is it ? |
| 6 | er because er her children but erm say that we we did n't want to sort of upset her by erm you know |
| 7 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |
| 8 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
| 9 | And feeling does n't refer to emotion as such . |
| 10 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
| 11 | Even though she had n't got to bed till the small hours , and had been feeling totally exhausted , she 'd been tossing and turning for what seemed like hours , utterly unable to sleep . |
| 12 | there I would n't like to sort of say . |
| 13 | So I eventually gorr it out the way , but I would n't like to gerr into that position again . |
| 14 | I said to me mother , I ai n't going to work for me dad like our Albert did . |
| 15 | And I said to me mother , I says look here , when I 'm old enough to work I say 's , I ai n't going to work for me dad I shall get a job on me own . |
| 16 | I enclose a cheque for £25 made out to Covenant House , since our Charities Aid Vouchers are n't going to work for Bruce Harris . |
| 17 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 18 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 19 | It would have been stupid to say I was n't going to sleep with him , because I knew I would . |
| 20 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 21 | you did n't have to bit on my knee |
| 22 | I 'm not cared I 'm not a lass , I do n't have to make-up on them . |
| 23 | Cycle parking is actually I wish they 'd actually pay a bit more places to actually put your bike and you did n't have to sort of tie it up to some lamppost or something |
| 24 | we do n't have to sort of , ai n't got ta take really too much muck |
| 25 | narrow foot yeah it 's like you do n't have to sort of ones our Adie got is the best |
| 26 | Do n't have to sort of spread them out like that you should toes |
| 27 | I have n't succumbed to weariness at Uncle Jim 's bedside and fallen asleep ? |
| 28 | ‘ You must n't go to sleep on my shoulder ’ , I objected , ‘ all the world knows you ’ . |
| 29 | fireman and yet he would n't he dare n't go to sleep with the light off . |
| 30 | I said to him : do n't go to sleep in the middle of rehearsals ! |