Example sentences of "n't [verb] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was sitting on the bed with her album — that sparsely-peopled record of whatever it was that she 'd left behind and she was n't leafing through it but hugging it close , as if it was a physical source of comfort to her when times were at their lowest . |
| 2 | I was n't depending on him anymore . |
| 3 | " I hope you were n't depending on him for a lift , were you ? " he asked Graham . |
| 4 | But he did n't laugh with her . |
| 5 | If you are fascinated by celebrities , try Margaret Forwood 's The Real Benny Hill ( Robson , £15.95 ) and Norman Wisdom 's Do n't Laugh At Me ( Century , £14.99 ) . |
| 6 | And this is what I 'm thinking of doing , so do n't laugh at me , because I 'm thinking of doing it . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't laugh at me , Theda ! ’ he warned , catching her glance . |
| 8 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
| 9 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 10 | You did n't laugh at him did you ? |
| 11 | Later during the trip I noticed that one morning the smell had n't registered with me . |
| 12 | Up until that moment I had seen myself as simply a person ; colour of skin had n't registered with me . |
| 13 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 14 | Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply could n't relate to them . |
| 15 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 16 | Erm , well , I 'm not sure , but if you find it erm , ask me , because I ca n't relate to it . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't bleat to me about fairness , ’ he rasped , his tone suddenly harsh . |
| 18 | After our two boys was killed I wanted ter move out but Sadie would n't 'ear of it . |
| 19 | ‘ Why ? ’ she just had to ask , ‘ when ? ’ and , most oddly , felt a tension in the air that , for once , did n't emanate from her . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't joke about it , ’ Candy returned solemnly . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're right , I should n't joke about it . |
| 22 | Do n't tread on them . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't like her much ’ , he said , pointing to its creator ‘ but you do n't tread on it . |
| 24 | Do n't tread in it , whatever you do ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't trifle with me , girl ! |
| 26 | ‘ I might have had a chance if the fates had n't conspired against me , but my left leg 's still giving me some stick . |
| 27 | I 'm I 'm stuck for a word I 've I 've asked Angela , I ca n't explain to her what I mean it 's awful when you , when you got a word at the back of your mind it 's one of those words where ki , a kid ham anybody , any person can er , realise that something needs doing and do it without being told to do it . |
| 28 | Er the chair being the offender , given the chair that collapsed underneath her er , she could n't , or she could n't explain to me how the chair managed to collapse underneath her ! |
| 29 | I mean , ee , they do n't explain to you how they 're going to do it do they ? |
| 30 | I ca n't explain to you , but it 's different to any other meeting . |