Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say it would n't relate to any accent in England anyway |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | They did n't speak to each other , or to her . |
| 8 | You ca n't have drama which does n't refer to other curriculum areas . |
| 9 | I wash it every day and use plenty of light conditioner but I do n't stick to one brand . |
| 10 | ‘ Every new development gets an individual approach — I do n't stick to any formula . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't spend to much time on it unless it seems to have more relevanace to the case . |
| 14 | Do n't expect them every day mind , we do n't run to such luxury in this house . ’ |
| 15 | Most projects do n't run to that kind of budget — not for the big chimps , anyway , which is what these were for . |
| 16 | Perhaps the fiddle sheet did n't run to outside entertainment more than once a month . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid I do n't run to pink body suits — and the jeep is quite glamorous enough for me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So even the performing seals are disgusted with his cheeseparing by now , and that night the lyric soprano breaks one of the hoops of her crinoline in the middle of her best love song because he would n't run to proper whalebone , and I take myself aside and say to myself … . ’ |
| 19 | You know erm I ca n't understand to this day why he did it . |
| 20 | You ca n't aspire to that degree of quality , but Peter Kirsten , who was my schoolboy hero , … well I think I can get to his level as a fieldsman and , perhaps , batsman . ’ |
| 21 | He could n't move to another part of the country and start the process over . |
| 22 | And hair roots ca n't respond to physical stimulation in that way . |
| 23 | We found that she would answer to either name , but did n't respond to any other . |
| 24 | Fry again urged Flashman , who insists he wo n't sell to any consortium which will employ his former manager , to leave the Third Division club or risk its future . |
| 25 | Barry made an agitated sighing noise which I did n't take to one bit . |
| 26 | Yet even if there is a little textural variety in the CD as a whole , in performances as polished as these you ca n't begrudge the time spent listening to such uniformly lovely music — it just does n't take to end-to-end listening . |
| 27 | Strictly speaking it is not possible to compare contents , address by address , because addresses do n't correspond to each other across species barriers . |
| 28 | And they 'll say , well no I did n't manage to last week in or something . |
| 29 | You know he should n't stoop to that level ! |
| 30 | ‘ Well , A , he 's not in a position to give it to me , and B , I would n't stoop to that sort of thing . ’ |