Example sentences of "n't [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Jim Russell at Wild Turkey tells you in a southern drawl : ‘ If you do n't make a good product to start with , a charcoal barrel ai n't gon na help . ’ |
| 32 | I suppose I did n't make a good impression on her . |
| 33 | I was only telling you that I 'm going to be busy , and would n't make a good companion for you . ’ |
| 34 | If you ca n't make a straightforward decision you 'd be wise to put things off and wait until certain issues settle themselves . |
| 35 | But , I mean , do , to be more realistic , I mean , o , if , obviously if , if all the government took a fifty percent pay cut it still would n't make a great deal of difference ? |
| 36 | So it did n't make a great deal of difference really , you know , you you 'd still got er some jurisdiction over them even though they were the foreman like . |
| 37 | She had intended to return to London that afternoon , but one more night would n't make a great deal of difference . |
| 38 | It did n't make a great occasion for me , though I think the backstage tension did contribute something to the success of the production . |
| 39 | If you do n't make a neat joint , you can fit a strip of hardwood cove moulding into the corner to provide a better finish . |
| 40 | An' it do n't make a flippin' bit o' difference if you 're Chinese . ’ |
| 41 | The first point is that you ca n't make a meaningful choice of subjects without adequate information . |
| 42 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 43 | you know sometimes you can just tell he wants you to talk to him , and erm so I er could n't make a proper soup , sorry , but this is |
| 44 | We do n't make a big public fuss but he answers our questions , and we answer his . |
| 45 | Mrs Caroline Blockley , 29 , said : ‘ He had an affair , but at least he admitted it and did n't make a big fuss . |
| 46 | In happy marriages the partners do n't make a big deal of minor irritations . |
| 47 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 48 | ‘ Listen , Aengus , do n't make a big thing out of it . |
| 49 | She stood up suddenly , so that she could stamp the floor , annoyed because tennis shoes could n't make a big enough noise to suit her fury . |
| 50 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 51 | Do n't make a big thing of it . |
| 52 | Did n't make a blind bit of difference . |
| 53 | As for the meeting , it wo n't make a blind bit of difference and the people of Darlington do n't care anyway . |
| 54 | ‘ Are you saying Matthew wo n't make a fine sailor ? ’ |
| 55 | Some camera systems do n't make a clean cut when you do this : the picture rolls or breaks up in some way . |
| 56 | Therefore , keeping the client happy ought to be easy , but it can be a hard job if you do n't make a conscious effort . |
| 57 | I would n't make a friggin' Frenchman spend the night here ’ |
| 58 | However , ’ he added with a reassuring smile , ‘ there 's no reason why , with a bit of luck , they should n't make a full recovery . |
| 59 | ‘ You would n't make a bad pioneer if you had a bit more time for practice . |
| 60 | Pre-flash wo n't make a bad picture good , but you can now expose your bad picture well . |