Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he would n't explain that remark , no matter how much she pestered him . |
| 2 | She said she did n't want that sort of hold over him . ’ |
| 3 | Asked whether a Bolshevik-style revolution in Africa by violent means that would miss the capitalist stage of development was possible , he said : ‘ I do n't think that revolution in this sense is possible . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think that kid 's as daft as he makes out . |
| 5 | On the minus side , everything else ; particularly Ray Parker Jr 's dire ‘ I Do n't Think That Man Should Sleep Alone ’ . |
| 6 | But I did n't think that order was the most important thing in building up a huge nightclub and casino empire , in a world full of sharks all wanting a slice of the action . |
| 7 | I do n't think that income taxes should be cut next year . |
| 8 | We all knew that Steven was regarded as an eligible bachelor , but we did n't think that marriage was what he was eligible for . |
| 9 | I do n't think that crying is a sign of weakness as it 's so often made out to be . |
| 10 | I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think that guy Skinner would like that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't think that fellow Burrows could have done it ? ’ asked Frobisher. 'From what I gather , he 's still at large . ’ |
| 13 | So I do n't think that world is far from the world I depict in ‘ The Power Of Darkness ’ . |
| 14 | But I do n't think that letter was written until she 'd decided who to leave the baby with . |
| 15 | I do n't think that clay consumption is on the increase — no more so than some of the other doings in my oddities file , such as eating the Oregon rough-skinned newt ( Journal of the American Medical Association , vol 246 , p 247 ) or performing bilateral orchiectomy ( ie removal of the testes ) on oneself ( JAMA , vol 241 , p 2188 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It does seem rather an absurd idea , after all ‘ civil ’ covers the middle ground , and somehow I do n't think that area exists for us . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't think that strach had a good game — both he and Macca had poor games mainly because White and Hodge could n't win the ball back in midfield . |
| 18 | The novel , after all , did n't arise when belief in God arose ; nor , for that matter , is there much correlation between those novelists who believed most strongly in the omniscient narrator and those who believed most strongly in the omniscient creator . |
| 19 | I did n't know that girl was a pickpocket . |
| 20 | ‘ But I did n't know that Mum had guessed too . |
| 21 | " Well , " I said , " I do n't know that thought helps digestion , but we 've certainly got a hell of a lot to think about . " |
| 22 | As I write , I can think of a couple of billboard posters that make no attempt to conceal their debt to the Belgian fantasist : a Silk Cut advertisement , which discards the regular purple silk motif in favour of a neutral cream back ground on which are set the letters P U R P L and E , snipped from some newspaper 's headlines as if by a poison pen writer ; and another whose legend , ‘ I did n't know that Air France had more flights to Paris than any other airline company ’ , is illustrated by the portrait of a man whose face is obscured by a fried egg . |
| 23 | I did n't know that kind of thing existed , but I have since learnt that there is quite a demand for them . |
| 24 | ‘ But she does n't know that divorce was in the wind , ’ Dougal said . |
| 25 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 26 | I do n't know But pandemonium this afternoon . |
| 27 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know whether Mum 's asleep or … . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't know whether Dad 's going to enter any photographs this year . |
| 30 | Now , up to now we 've met , it 's probably a step forward but it will need careful monitoring because there is utter confusion as far as I 'm concerned with , I do n't know whether Apex is a sister union with us or a section and I do n't think Apex know the difference themselves . |