Example sentences of "n't [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the mortgage to pay and the electricity bill for the central heating they could n't economise there because of Debbie needing warmth — and the hire-purchase on the bedroom suite to find . |
| 2 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 3 | So and they were tempted to eat erm poor stuff which they they would n't eat otherwise because there was the juice of the soaked to it . |
| 4 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |
| 5 | I would n't stay here if they offered me half of the Palace . |
| 6 | Would n't stay here if we did n't would we ? |
| 7 | " But I ca n't stay here because he 'll come round . |
| 8 | Blanche was confined to bed most of the time ; he did n't stay long because she was so weary and there was a nurse who bustled him out . |
| 9 | We all know the grave problems in some of our children 's homes but we ca n't run away with the fact that er they 're unique to or the problems do n't exist elsewhere because we all know they do . |
| 10 | I hope you 've found the meeting this evening positive , I 'm sure you have n't heard perhaps if the people found after the this evening and the guy up there reckons we ought to retire , well I do n't think we will retire but I think we will be responding to the things that you raised this evening I happen to think the Harlow theatre I 'm not sure how you measure success , erm I think we measure it 's success in the fact that people actually do use the building , people do come to see the shows . |
| 11 | With the sort of guitar riff we have n't heard much since George Harrison took up yoga , Weller proved the more banal Style Council meanderings are not to be his epitaph . |
| 12 | Okay , now that result holds , right , for all erm for all marginal relationships Okay , so if we are looking at a marginal marginal cost curve , right , we have got that 's our marginal cost , that 's our average cost we , we 're intersecting here when in the case it is a minimum so marginal costs cuts through average costs at its minimum value we are looking at average revenue and marginal revenue average revenue function marginal revenue function This is our total revenue function and the same relationship is embodied there , but , notice that between the average and the average revenue and marginal revenue functions , right , do n't intersect simply because we have got a linear relationship here right , average revenue is always above marginal revenue in this particular case . |
| 13 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 14 | Do n't eliminate somewhere because it sounds ridiculous or out of the question . |
| 15 | So we do n't want more than one person speaking at once otherwise it wo n't be clear , the tape recording , O K. |
| 16 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 17 | He said the extra half percent was actually er a risk return , of course you know it was n't explained perhaps as well . |
| 18 | So you would n't knock upstairs cos you 'd have two staircases would n't you ? |
| 19 | ‘ Charity , I do n't think clearly as soon as you come into the picture . |
| 20 | But it 's so chancy that way uh and I do n't think either if you gave y'self the role or y'know , the title , say , of school counsellor or whatever that you … it would work . |
| 21 | But she could n't think straight while Julius was standing just a couple of feet away ! |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't think straight if a room 's too warm . |
| 23 | ‘ Because I ca n't think straight when I 'm close to you . |
| 24 | She could n't think ahead because she dared not . |
| 25 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ I dared n't think further than that meeting . |
| 27 | I do n't think so except for the relation to domestics . |
| 28 | In fact we have n't got you down for a paper at all in this class yet I do n't think so if you 'd like to do one for us you can see me about it afterwards . |
| 29 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 30 | I do n't think so because I 'm not really like that and people who know me know that I 'm not like that . |