Example sentences of "n't [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xorandor does n't laugh at people , he goes along with them at their level , telling them what he knows they want to hear . |
| 2 | The pistol was n't pointed at Trent . |
| 3 | Brats do n't stay at home painting their kid 's nursery pale peach . |
| 4 | ‘ When the children are out at school I could n't stay at home all day , ’ she says . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Who is n't drained at Christmas ? ’ |
| 7 | She was n't booked at Thorn House , told me she was five weeks early . |
| 8 | But we could go up even if we do n't win at Wolves , depending upon on other results . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd listened to my father when he told me how to act with the top players , and there was n't a blade of grass I did n't know at St Andrews . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | FRENCH magazines love telling their women readers that while French lovers may be romantic , French husbands are scruffy , barely domesticated louts who do n't clean their teeth , do n't shave at weekends and wo n't use deodorants . |
| 13 | Even though we had n't won at Cov since 1976 , it felt like today we would begin to shut the critics up and show them that we truly are contenders . |
| 14 | But the Blades have n't won at Anfield since 1968 and the tradition looked safe . |
| 15 | Leeds have n't won at Joe Royle 's Oldham in their last seven attempts but McAllister warned : ‘ That 's a record we 're bursting to put right . |
| 16 | AS I TOLD YOUR MUM , PREGNANT WOMEN SHOULD N'T SWEAR AT GYPSIES |
| 17 | We did n't discuss it , and when he did n't appear at work the next day I thought he was just sulking . |
| 18 | But today , when he did n't appear at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in London , the court was told that he was still unfit . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't scoff at matters of the spirit , ’ she said as she threaded her needle with gold to start embroidering the unicorn 's eye . |
| 20 | DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh . |
| 21 | A group like Waterstones would be less likely to welcome this approach : ‘ It would n't do at Waterstones because their buyers like to do their own checking . |
| 22 | These are things they do n't do at school today do they ? |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | They were n't looking at Nisodemus as he spoke , but at the crowd . |
| 26 | Erm , I do n't know whether you can think of any other words that would be use useful but erm , if you were n't looking at hesitations , you might look at erm , |
| 27 | Sir Douglas Hague did n't study at Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 28 | You 're talking about all sorts of geography that I did n't study at school . |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't grow at 50% to 60% compound year-on-year [ as they are doing ] , ’ Mr Wood said . |
| 30 | Diving to me has never seemed particularly energetic , and certainly one does n't swim at speed when sports diving . |