Example sentences of "n't [verb] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we do n't want more than one person speaking at once otherwise it wo n't be clear , the tape recording , O K. |
| 2 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 3 | ‘ And we do n't need more than two . ’ |
| 4 | I could n't buy more because the price is shooting up — too much buying . |
| 5 | You have n't said more than two words since you got here . " |
| 6 | I ca n't say , ca n't do more than that . |
| 7 | I 've spent nearly a week playing around with the Korg A2 and I feel I have n't done more than scratch the surface . |
| 8 | Maggie went to the room Paddy had rented for nigh on sixteen years , the only room in the tall lodging house that did n't accommodate more than one family . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , most of the research conducted so far has n't produced more than a few tentative generalizations . |
| 10 | It is recommended for jacquard that you do n't use more than five colours in a row , but I am told by Silver Reed that you use this program for programming intarsia , which is going to be knitted with the new electronic intarsia carriage . |
| 11 | Each subsystem provides its own interface and applications ca n't use more than one . |
| 12 | Do n't use more than two , yes . |
| 13 | I would recommend for any talk that you give that you do n't use more than two types of visual aid . |
| 14 | It can be no bigger than A4 , and it must n't project more than 3 inches , but at the moment they are pouring into Rosie Headers house , and we 've had stuff from Japan and America already , and also from artists in the community , but anybody can enter for Mail Art , so if anybody 's interested in a Mail Art sheet , I can get one for you , but those exhibitions are going up in Freud 's , which is our sort of Festival Centre for the two and a half weeks during the Festival . |
| 15 | He did n't look more than twenty . ’ |
| 16 | A new kitchen will probably cost between £5,000 and £10,000 for the average three-bedroomed home , but do n't spend more than 10 per cent of the house 's value . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't understand more than three words , ’ said the Marshal placidly . |
| 18 | There 's also support for multiple columns , although you ca n't see more than one column at a time unless you 're in Page Preview mode . |
| 19 | I could n't see more than three frames between standing still and throwing the punch . |
| 20 | But a good one should n't cost more than £50 to £100 . |
| 21 | There is a widely held untruth that as long as you do n't copy more than eight bars , you are in the clear . |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't spoken more than half a dozen words to your wife in the whole time you and I have been working together , ’ protested Matt . |
| 23 | What had the woman meant about ‘ the girls ’ — surely Luke had n't brought more than one of his conquests here together ? |
| 24 | We ca n't take more than five , the first time . ’ |
| 25 | I if there is any problem that can be mentioned it wo n't take more than thirty seconds I would have thought . |
| 26 | From there , it should n't take more than ten minutes , past the Abbey and the cemetery , to Barley Hill , just off the Gloucester Road . |
| 27 | For example , pattern No. 12–36 from the 580 pattern pack does n't have more than one marked square counting vertically ( or horizontally ) anywhere . |
| 28 | I mean as I say now , how can you turn round to a to a bloke who 's , well does n't matter what his on , eh , what , what ever his , his rate of pay is , how can you turn round to him and say you ca n't have more than seven per cent , and his got , his got something like a about twenty five , thirty per cent . |
| 29 | However , we had n't gone more than a few yards when she stopped and turned around . |
| 30 | Was that because Geoffrey wanted to return to the hermit-like seclusion of Pook 's Common , or because the daughter and her family could n't stand more than one day of Geoffrey ? |