Example sentences of "n't [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose it is , but I was n't driving to Penzance at 11.45 on Friday night . ’ |
| 2 | Erm but er I 'd just like to add that that , that was n't relating to Bill because he certainly did n't do that . |
| 3 | Thank god I was n't listening to Radio 5 , else I 'd probably not have any fingernails left with worry that they would n't put even one past Swindon . |
| 4 | It was n't like him , it was out of character , but she was n't acting to character either . |
| 5 | I would try and get people to work as a team together and then when it obviously is n't going to work properly , only then would I make the decision . |
| 6 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 7 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 8 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 9 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 10 | It was n't going to work . |
| 11 | ‘ This is n't going to work , ’ Alina said despondently . |
| 12 | ‘ This is n't going to work , ’ he started to say , but Bobo pulled her arm back into the cage and made a vague two-handed gesture . |
| 13 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
| 14 | I said to me mother , I ai n't going to work for me dad like our Albert did . |
| 15 | And I said to me mother , I says look here , when I 'm old enough to work I say 's , I ai n't going to work for me dad I shall get a job on me own . |
| 16 | Now you 're trying to walk through the mirror , and it is n't going to work . ’ |
| 17 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 18 | ‘ Robyn , ’ he murmured roughly , ‘ this just is n't going to work . |
| 19 | There and then Robbie vowed that his little plan was n't going to work . |
| 20 | But it was n't going to work . |
| 21 | Well it ai n't going to work because for a part that have slammed V A T on domestic fuels and in fact if all of the cuts of the conservative government , all the tax increases you have quoted cuts . |
| 22 | And everybody knows from the Depratment of transport downwards that it is n't going to work . |
| 23 | I enclose a cheque for £25 made out to Covenant House , since our Charities Aid Vouchers are n't going to work for Bruce Harris . |
| 24 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 25 | Well , the Senior Daughter is n't going to Sunderland to study . |
| 26 | ‘ They tell me you only get that very strong black espresso coffee — not even cappuccino — and the cups are only half full , ’ Mervyn persisted , so that Ianthe had to protest that she was n't going to Rome only to eat and drink . |
| 27 | Is n't going to school . |
| 28 | We are n't going to Ibiza after all . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 30 | I would say do n't give them away , if they were n't going to Emma . |