Example sentences of "n't [verb] [pron] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well these things may er describe erm sexual behaviour and how to facilitate it , but they ca n't explain it and nor are they really fundamental , because after all okay in mammals males may be the sex defined by the X chromosome , but in birds it 's the other way round in birds it 's the female chromosome and all , in other words , all bird embryos start , start out as male and differentiate into females if they 're going to , whereas in mammals all embryos start out as female and differentiate into males , in so far as those terms have any sense . |
| 2 | Because he knew he could n't speak of what was in his mind , he pretended he had n't heard her and continued to stare out of the window . |
| 3 | I just did n't fancy her and that was all there was to it . |
| 4 | The white foreigners may have partitioned and ruled their land for seventy years , but that did n't make him and his countrymen " yellows , " " Annamites " or " Annamese . " |
| 5 | You could feel the crowd willing it in but it did n't make it and I was beginning to feel it was slipping away , and especially when we could only make par at the 17th . |
| 6 | He could n't make it and asked me to come instead . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I said I did n't want one and the nurse said ‘ Why are you down here anyway ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You do n't want me and you do n't need me . |
| 9 | And he knew now that he wanted her , wanted her when it was obvious that she did n't want him and would never again risk rejection . |
| 10 | " Is n't it strange the way everyone 's got kittens to dispose of when you do n't want them and none when you do ? " |
| 11 | You do n't want them and they do n't want you . |
| 12 | He does n't want them and he 's not getting them ! |
| 13 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 14 | oh my god , I do n't want you and Daniel going mad |
| 15 | The sellers do n't want it and the buyers do n't need it . ’ |
| 16 | First of all , because it is the capital ; Paris did n't want it and in London it would have been at Canary Wharf , which as you know is now in receivership , so thank goodness it did n't go there , and the Getty Museum is also restricted for visitors . |
| 17 | So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't . |
| 18 | ‘ They do n't want it and so it will go . ’ |
| 19 | But I mean , you know as it stands I mean you would n't want it and they would n't want it . |
| 20 | Yeah , put it there he 'll feed it , he 'll have it , hurry up , that 's it hurry up and eat it cos we 've got to go erm , and they 'll have sandwiches or something for tea and er if you point something they say no I do n't want it and then when the other one can I have it , oh you 're digging your finger in it |
| 21 | One minute he does n't want it and then the next minute he 's |
| 22 | Well that 's it cos I 'd , I mean I had the accident , well I mean I , I did n't hurt myself and I was very lucky I did n't hit the cars but erm it was bad enough with er and I ended up on this big grass embankment at the end of the bypass . |
| 23 | He left hold of one arm and thrust his hand into his coat pocket and brought out what looked like a narrow tube ; then glancing first one way then the other , he said : ‘ This wo n't hurt you and you 'll come quietly . ’ |
| 24 | I would n't hurt anybody and I 'm not cheeky . |
| 25 | It did n't knock them and they kept on playing . |
| 26 | We 've said we have n't listed anything and there 's no formal slot on the programme for the press in general , talking to journalists and so forth . |
| 27 | I I do n't think myself and I still have an open mind and I do n't think that the Labour case erm adds up to be perfectly honest . |
| 28 | ‘ He continued to visit his mother until her death , but I do n't think he and Gaston ever spoke to each other again . ’ |
| 29 | After all , even if his people as a whole are suffering privations and losses , and ca n't buy all the things they want , it does n't affect him and his ruling clique . |
| 30 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |