Example sentences of "n't [verb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course I do n't disapprove of cocaine . |
| 2 | What photographer has n't heard of Picture Post — though I suppose the American in me world argue that all those magazines were imitators of Life . ’ |
| 3 | If you ca n't think of conversation , go over your phrases with them . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think of Ianthe like that , ’ said John . |
| 5 | ‘ When you mention epilepsy people straight away think of the major fit grand-mal , they do n't think of absence seizures , ’ said Mrs McLeod , whose first fit happened when she had polio as a child . |
| 6 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 7 | Boots did n't think of Body Shop ; it just copied the packaging . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Ramsbum did n't approve of change , ’ remarked Amiss . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't approve of romance that 's misguided and inappropriate . ’ |
| 10 | He did n't approve of smoking or drinking and my Dad was so dominated by him that he would hide his pipe behind a cushion — once setting fire to the chair — for fear of incurring his wrath . |
| 11 | And there 's the controversy , which I do n't approve of controversy and they rather roll their tongues around and in and out of words and |
| 12 | I do n't approve of shipboard romances . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't approve of shipboard romances . |
| 14 | Now I do n't know of course who else may be er wishing to comment . |
| 15 | But I would n't know of course . |
| 16 | ‘ You can see , Miss Cathy , that he is n't dying of love for you ! |
| 17 | But she was n't made of brass , or ice either , although she tried to close her mind to what he was doing , to the gentle , unbearable pleasure of his lips moving slowly over hers , not cruel as they had been earlier , but coaxing , first lightly and then more demanding . |
| 18 | Your baby is n't made of china , so she wo n't break ! |
| 19 | Well , then he might have to he makes a mess of that bed I ai n't made of money you know ! |
| 20 | ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy . |
| 21 | But to be made to feel as if one 's made of wood by a man who obviously is n't made of wood is too much for any girl 's stomach . |
| 22 | But we are n't made of steel . |
| 23 | Anyway , most of the punk girls do n't smell of perfume and only a few wear skirts and even then they 're usually leather ones . |
| 24 | You do n't smell of milk do you . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're looking for a dirtier funky sound that does n't smell of record label money . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't speak of death , Cleg , ’ Beatie said , ‘ not now with me in this condition . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If I have n't died of hunger first , ’ she said with asperity . |
| 28 | have n't approved of number four yet . |
| 29 | It seems incredible to me that I had n't thought of separation before but it dawned on me suddenly one day that there was a way out and I could leave . |
| 30 | He had n't thought of marriage before . |