Example sentences of "n't [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the er the insides have got to be kept clean it does n't about the surroundings are dirty so you know , it 's quite okay to you know , throw your half-eaten bread out ! |
| 2 | Now , you wo n't about the Wrexham . |
| 3 | It is n't about the dress at all — it 's a personal matter . ’ |
| 4 | Entire and accessible to the front of his mind was what he had been trying to recall his wife had said about the picture , but it was n't about the picture . |
| 5 | the feathers have a certain length of life and that 's it , they 've had it , and it is n't worth the mess anyway |
| 6 | My attitude is that if a band manages to release a second album of poor songs four months after their first album left number one in the charts , it is n't worth the rush . |
| 7 | Nuclear workers told cancer risk is n't worth the worry . |
| 8 | I heard her say I ai n't worth the air I breathe . ’ |
| 9 | It was n't worth the responsibility . |
| 10 | Frankly , it is n't worth the memory space it takes up , as improvements with other than database programs are imperceptible , and access with database files are n't speeded up very noticeably . |
| 11 | It was n't worth the fine , so I retreated to climb every escalator , dream the impossible dream of a store in which silent night meant peace to shop , and not another glutinous accompaniment to wassailing wallets . |
| 12 | In the same vein of concentrated analysis ( and again , with rather an insufficiency of music examples ) Oliver Neighbour considers the authorship of certain anonymous keyboard pieces , most particularly a transcription of Byrd 's ‘ O quam gloriosum est regnum ’ Its procedures demonstrate the activity of a master hand ( not inconceivably Byrd 's own ) even if only to satisfy himself that the exercise was n't worth the candle . |
| 13 | This would n't always be the case — the pigeon might be able to take cover and elude the peregrine , but the peregrine might equally decide that it was n't worth the chase . |
| 14 | You can se , I me , you can see some of them ai n't worth the money though ca n't you ? |
| 15 | They hope it will prove so complex and costly to implement that the company may finally decide that mining in Mayo simply is n't worth the trouble . |
| 16 | You 'll get nothing out of him , the man 's practically penniless , and he is n't worth the trouble . ’ |
| 17 | She was n't worth the effort , he decided . |
| 18 | This is such hard work that you may decide that it is n't worth the effort and abandon your attempt to acquire the skills in question . |
| 19 | So far as I am concerned , wet-weather ferreting is n't worth the effort . |
| 20 | they 're a band you love to hate , far more than the Manic Street Preachers , who crave to be loathed but simply are n't worth the effort . |
| 21 | It really was n't worth the effort . |
| 22 | ‘ The place is n't worth the £800 , let alone £320,000 , ’ said Mary , who lives there with her 10-year-old son . |
| 23 | It was n't worth the arguments with her husband , she 'd reasoned . |
| 24 | If the rating is not marked on the switch or volume control it is n't worth the risk . |
| 25 | With his visibility problems aggravated by the scar tissue around his eyes , he could n't see ; he thought it was just stupid to race under these conditions ; the world championship was n't worth the risk involved . |
| 26 | The experience was painful enough to ensure that no-one did it again ; it simply was n't worth the risk . |
| 27 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 28 | She was glad she had not got one ; it was n't worth the trauma . |
| 29 | At some point during all this nonsense Meehan stormed out of the court , shouting that his free pardon was n't worth the paper it was printed on . |
| 30 | We signed a year 's lease on this place but it ai n't worth the paper it 's written on . |