Example sentences of "n't [v-ing] to [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ai n't keeping to their part of the contract . |
| 2 | She did not dare stop talking because she knew that Constance was n't speaking to her mother and that Nora would be unable to resist goading her daughter with a volley of questions . |
| 3 | For a good five years , round then , I was n't speaking to your dad , or your Gran . ’ |
| 4 | And erm the youngsters were n't objecting to their music . |
| 5 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |