Example sentences of "n't [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no discussion of this , and Changez did n't demur at the crucial moment when something could — maybe — have been done . |
| 2 | Of teachers , four examples , at random , covered approachability , humour and sensitivity ( SED 1989:8 ) : If you do n't have a sense of humour and ca n't laugh with the weans , you 'd crack up more easily . |
| 3 | I did n't laugh into the receiver , but the idea of Manning Jackson taking a chance was something new . |
| 4 | 10 Do n't persist in a procedure that fails to work . |
| 5 | ‘ It seems she does ; you would n't persist in a story that will be disproved as soon as I meet Mr and Mrs Smith , but I do n't believe you 're identical twins . |
| 6 | And there 's no gummed edge so the paper was n't ripped off a pad . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyone who gets toothache but is n't registered with a dentist wo n't be accepted . ’ |
| 8 | Well it , it , it , it does n't relate to a pattern erm to be an analogy . |
| 9 | I mean if in terms of the statement in the structure plan , it is simply the policy does n't relate to an outer northern relief road . |
| 10 | I bet it does n't relate to an actual operation in a general hospital because you 've got so many people wanting their rake off in a private one surely ? |
| 11 | Most of these are rather old , and do n't relate to the present Plate Tectonic picture , but rather to the situation ten or twenty million years ago . |
| 12 | ’ Yates felt that , ‘ Dustin did n't relate to the character because I do n't think Dustin likes to be thought of as nice and charming . |
| 13 | ‘ People ca n't relate to the supermodels anymore , ’ said Four Seasons advertising executive Glyn Hayes . |
| 14 | ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’ |
| 15 | Stephen 's mother had n't fallen from the cliff-path in a gust of wind : she had been pushed by Stephen 's father . |
| 16 | No I have n't fallen in the river or anything . |
| 17 | And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me . |
| 18 | I have n't travelled with a maid for years . |
| 19 | ‘ They do n't graze like a herd of sheep and keep all the vegetation down to one level , ’ says Robson . |
| 20 | I did show in the Serpentine Gallery in 1975 but even that presented a problem of prudery which I did n't experience on the continent . |
| 21 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 22 | We see each other every now and again , but we are n't joined at the hip like Siamese twins , you know . ’ |
| 23 | The following people still have n't subbed to the new list , so remember your messages are n't getting through to them . |
| 24 | Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion . |
| 25 | News of one did n't transmit to the other . |
| 26 | ‘ I had n't realised at the time how tough it was , ’ he admits . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't explain over the phone . |
| 28 | You ca n't explain to a child . ‘ |
| 29 | It is the sort of thing you ca n't explain to a child . ’ |
| 30 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |