Example sentences of "n't [det] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't much chance of catching Caspar , not at the rate the dog was going . |
| 2 | ‘ There was n't much scope for doing very much that year … . |
| 3 | There was n't much point in throwing away |
| 4 | ‘ There is n't much point in trying to grow a belt of trees across the desert , ’ Camilla Toulmin , the head of IIED 's Drylands Programme , told the author . |
| 5 | But I 'm beginning to see that there is n't much point in trying to hold on to something that does n't belong to me . |
| 6 | In our bed-sitter we used to talk about my cases , the funny things that happened on my rounds , but now , I thought helplessly , there was n't much point in telling her that AC2 Phillips was on jankers again , that vector triangles were the very devil , that Don McGregor thought he had discovered the secret of Sergeant Hynd 's phenomenally shiny boots . |
| 7 | You will appreciate there is n't much point in training a bird to do this if every time you enter a different environment or a stranger comes into view it becomes hysterical . |
| 8 | There was n't much point in calling in at the shop , so I came straight here . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There was n't much point in sitting down and going over and over again into what went wrong at Coventry . |
| 10 | There was n't much point in pressing the bell so I fooled around with a small bunch of keys I keep for occasions like this and finally felt the tumblers turn in the lock . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 12 | In her Mum and Dad 's house you were so safe there was n't much point in playing — there were so many bits of furniture crammed into the room . |
| 13 | I mean they cut in through Manchuria down the north to , to , across to north China plain , had taken the cities on the eastern seaboard which was what they wanted , I mean th th they really was n't any point in controlling the rural south , it would have taken so many troops , so much administration if they 'd that then they had everything they wanted from the trading ports so there was n't that Japanese presence and so the clearly was different . |
| 14 | ‘ There really is n't any point in shouting , ’ said Mildred , putting a pillow underneath the victim 's head . |
| 15 | I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage . |
| 16 | There was n't any point in going over all that again . |
| 17 | Alan Bleasdale declined to contribute to NSS 's ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ feature last week ( ‘ It 's 1997 and the Conservatives are going for their fifth election victory in a row … ’ ) because he says he is n't any good at foreseeing the future : ‘ I never thought cassette tapes would catch on . ’ |
| 18 | People said it was because they were n't any good at finding their way . |
| 19 | We use up all that brain capacity that 's left dark in normals , and there is n't any room for dreaming . |