Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 2 | She wished she was n't offended that he did n't rush to assure her that she was n't that bad a waitress . |
| 3 | You will have read enough apparently contradictory facts about what you can and ca n't eat to drive you to drink ( or chocolates , cakes , cheese sandwiches or whatever constitutes your particular downfall ) . |
| 4 | Bu Mr does n't eat does he ? |
| 5 | I did n't stay to see it happen , just went as far up the fields as I could go . |
| 6 | cos I did n't fancy eating it like that and er she goes , I told her give us a piece of some of that wrapping you know |
| 7 | ‘ I just do n't fancy tackling her a third time . ’ |
| 8 | And these are people like you say have got pride in finishing things off , you know there 's a lot of people within groups who do n't mind starting things off but do n't fancy finishing them . |
| 9 | I would n't fancy owing him two bob . ’ |
| 10 | round the roses and I did n't fancy doing it so |
| 11 | I mean , it does n't make sent I I I 'm just saying what is saying there . |
| 12 | We do n't want bothering us do we ? |
| 13 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't want to let him in , ’ says a lofty academic . ’ |
| 15 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 16 | They knew that if you made schools and universities permanent structures , tooled beautifully in stone and designed in a timeless way to permit the flowering of reflective thought and ancient customs , that society would become attached to them and would n't want to let them go when the cutbacks came . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , we would n't want to let them out of our sight , ’ said Hilda . |
| 18 | Frank was keen to carry on with his commitments in Blackpool … particularly with the Labour Party conference , he did n't want to let them down . |
| 19 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 20 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 21 | When she wants to go you do n't want to let her but when , when you want to let her in she 'll |
| 22 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 23 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 24 | " You do n't want to let it worry you . |
| 25 | Father reached out for love and did n't want to let it go . |
| 26 | " I do n't want to let you go , but d' you know , I feel so ridiculously happy . |
| 27 | His mounting literary reputation was by then sustained by poems as well as criticism , though he had abandoned the writing of poems before the war : ‘ It struck me they were bad , ’ he told an interviewer years later , ‘ I did n't want to print them ’ ; so that though his Collected Poems ( 1955 ) were a minor intellectual sensation when they finally appeared , they belong to another time . |
| 28 | You can also delete the diagrams if you do n't want to print them — that 's why the files are editable , and not compiled to print without the use of a word processor . |
| 29 | And so it is if you do n't want to print it . |
| 30 | I do n't want to push her out of the house but I just know I 've reached the stage of not being able to cope any more . ’ |