Example sentences of "n't [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brats do n't stay at home painting their kid 's nursery pale peach . |
| 2 | ‘ When the children are out at school I could n't stay at home all day , ’ she says . |
| 3 | My understanding is that A those do n't exist at present within the deposit plan , but if they did at some future date , for any reason , that their function would be to be used after two thousand and six to sustain the permanence of the greenbelt . |
| 4 | Who is n't drained at Christmas ? ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , as Tony Gamble , the company 's Publisher and Managing Director , indicated to this year 's Electronic Publishing Conference the main reason they had n't looked at desktop publishing was because they were professional publishers and felt that the technology was unlikely to be suitable for them . |
| 6 | However modern synthetic fillings are much less bulky and heavy than you may remember if you have n't looked at sleeping bags for a while . |
| 7 | We did n't discuss it , and when he did n't appear at work the next day I thought he was just sulking . |
| 8 | These are things they do n't do at school today do they ? |
| 9 | ‘ Be that as it may , ’ she hurried on , ‘ I would n't feel at home here , beautiful though it is , ’ she admitted in strangled tones . |
| 10 | ‘ What you 're saying , then , is that you do n't feel at ease with me , because you do n't know me very well . ’ |
| 11 | You 're talking about all sorts of geography that I did n't study at school . |
| 12 | Diving to me has never seemed particularly energetic , and certainly one does n't swim at speed when sports diving . |
| 13 | ( If things do n't improve at home the need could be closer ! ) |
| 14 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't slept at night since then . ’ |
| 16 | he wo n't do it he wo n't work at home |
| 17 | Suppliers are currently working furiously to bring all manner of object-oriented and distributed computing software services , mechanisms and applications to market — targeted at these types of systems — which wo n't work at end user sites unless those users have properly functioning networks of integrated systems on which to run , says Dawes . |
| 18 | You know , I think it is now more a traditional family time , Christmas , and you know they do n't look at Hogmanay the same . |
| 19 | When I 'd finished , I did n't look at Mum and Dad , I just stared at the carpet . |
| 20 | We do n't look at telly . |
| 21 | He did n't look at Dot . |
| 22 | He rolled over and opened his eyes though he did n't look at Dot any more than she looked at him . |
| 23 | In fact , national memories of wartime boiled mutton are still so strong that most Germans ca n't look at sheepmeat , even prime lamb , without searching for a dog 's bowl to put it in . |
| 24 | So the women were n't staying at home in the itched to make things for or to back or anything ? |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't sleep at night because I 'm worried : both about getting behind with my work , and about bouncing cheques , ’ he said . |
| 26 | It 's maddening — like voices in a dream , I ca n't sleep at night , they taunt me ’ |
| 27 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
| 28 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 29 | It 's not all fun — sometimes I ca n't sleep at night for worrying . ’ |
| 30 | Maybe someone will provide a 24-hour 0898 number which we can dial when we ca n't sleep at night for thinking about the copy of Milan Kundera 's Immortality lying untouched on the bedside table . |