Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That filmmakers did n't feel hamstrung by the need to defer to the MOI reflects their own desire to ‘ do their bit ’ . |
| 2 | We do n't feel overwhelmed by the resemblance , as we are by biological adaptations — the products of cumulative selection . |
| 3 | ‘ You did n't feel watched on the way here ? ’ he asked , trying to make it sound light-hearted . |
| 4 | I mean that 's , that 's very important , there was a lot of suffering , I think it 's about the people who , I ca n't remember returned to the villages |
| 5 | You would n't have believed from the pristine state of the scrubbed room overlooking the main road to London that a man had tried to starve himself to death in it only a few weeks before . |
| 6 | Even so , without his father 's family connection he would n't have scraped through the entrance exam . |
| 7 | I would n't have stopped in the job I was in . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll bet he could n't have survived with the rest of us . |
| 9 | If Jack had had to protect his pitch at Dagenham and White City in the days when men were men , he would n't have survived until the third race . |
| 10 | well how would you have known then , you would n't have waded through the whole book looking for it , would you ? |
| 11 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 12 | When planning staff at Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire said the Union flag outside the Bell Hotel in the town needed planning permission because the flag pole was n't vertical , they could n't have guessed at the outcry . |
| 13 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 14 | Johnny Argie would n't have seen off the task force so bloody buggering easy if the old ‘ evenin' all ’ had been on the South Atlantic beat . |
| 15 | The driver must be someone who did n't know the district well , or he would n't have gone along the Applewick lane ; and that meant it was very likely he would n't realise that his van would hit the arch of the bridge instead of going under it , just as her daddy 's had done once . |
| 16 | On the other hand , had he not thought they would be there , he would n't have gone into the building at all . |
| 17 | I know I should n't have gone near the sea , but I did it as a protest . |
| 18 | ‘ You would n't have gone round the world , ’ said Robert . |
| 19 | It was so obvious that he would n't have cared in the slightest if she really had run off with the professor . |
| 20 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 21 | And I could n't have done without the bike . |
| 22 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 23 | So as the light would n't have reflected through the entrance . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't have minded about the money . |
| 25 | That would n't have happened after The Baker 's Wife . |
| 26 | I should n't have thought of the blinking . ’ |
| 27 | I would n't have come to the office in the first place if you had n't asked me . ’ |
| 28 | I would n't have come near the church if I 'd realised — ’ |
| 29 | But you wo n't have read about the difficulties of Roger Thornton-Brown . |
| 30 | They were remarkable figures then , but almost 25 years on we beat them fairly handsomely , in a car which , although in a pretty healthy stage of tune ( probably around 350bhp ) , has nothing that any Cobra owner could n't have bought over the counter , and which is still perfectly useable on the road in small doses . |