Example sentences of "n't [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I haven I have n't developed a new word at number six , that is overall presents her argument in a confident and persuasive manner . |
| 2 | ‘ He promised to stay in regular contact , but I have n't received a single phone call . ’ |
| 3 | He jerked her back to face him and Isabel could n't repress a sharp cry of fear at the violence in his eyes . |
| 4 | Just as " big-step reductionism " can not work as an explanation of mechanism , and must be replaced by a series of small step-by-step peelings down through the hierarchy , so we ca n't explain a complex thing as originating in a single step . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't eat a huge amount because at 5ft 2in every extra pound really shows — so I have one main meal a day . |
| 7 | Do n't eat a heavy meal for at least two hours before you exercise . |
| 8 | I ca n't I ca n't eat a full meal though ! |
| 9 | We ca n't eat a full meal anyway and they charge |
| 10 | I can I ca n't eat a full yoghurt , so a little set yoghurt |
| 11 | I love a piece of orange , I I would n't eat a whole orange but I do like er little pieces of oranges now I might get away with that but if I was to have a whole orange |
| 12 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 13 | There are proposals to link Valmorel 's skiing area to the Three Valleys , although we were n't given a definite timescale . |
| 14 | I have n't heard a single thing of him ! |
| 15 | He wo n't fancy a needling match on these terms . |
| 16 | Whilst she had n't completed a weekly measurement chart she had kept a personal record of her waist and hip measurement . |
| 17 | Says one Norton executive : ‘ Even Honda ca n't design a new bike in a matter of months . |
| 18 | We do n't cover a great deal of the M one but it 's something like fourteen miles but that was about the time of the miners ' strike as well so I was on traffic when that was on and we had these intercept boys who were working something like thirteen hour shifts for about a year . |
| 19 | GILLIAN said you could n't make a general remark and then exclude half the human race , because fifty per cent of the time that someone will turn out to be female . |
| 20 | We could n't make a new book collection there : that would be absurd . |
| 21 | In other words , you wo n't make a separate section . |
| 22 | IF IT worries you that the national survey on sexual habits is not going to take place , you could take comfort from the thought that it probably wo n't make a vast amount of difference in the long run . |
| 23 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |
| 24 | bloody hell , shuffling like a buggery here , I just ca n't make a bloody hand |
| 25 | They do n't make a joint do they , for you , you , you , you and you ? |
| 26 | ( One does n't make a mild curry hot just by upping the number of chillies . ) |
| 27 | ‘ The most obvious thing in mine may be that I like to work with numbers , but if I 've an urge to be an innovator too , I probably wo n't make a successful auditor . |
| 28 | There 's a raging controversy right now about which guitars sustain better — a glued-on neck , a neck through body or a bolt-on — when in my opinion it does n't make a damn bit of difference . |
| 29 | There 's a raging controversy right now about which guitars sustain better — a glued-on neck , a neck through body or a bolt-on — when in my opinion it does n't make a damn bit of difference . |
| 30 | Wayne told Pilar , ‘ The son-of-a-bitch ca n't make a good movie without his father or Bogart to carry him . ’ |