Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , what I mean is , we do n't double the amount , I 'm sorry we , were supposed to send six hundred . |
| 2 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |
| 3 | One final observation : It is possible , although I could n't reproduce the effect on the three models made , that a switch-mode power system may oscillate or be unstable on open or very light loads . |
| 4 | Such men do n't spare a second 's thought for ‘ the People ’ . |
| 5 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 6 | We were weary and did n't spare a thought for how she must be feeling — sick in the mornings , with a husband flying all the time . |
| 7 | Whatever you do however , do n't spare a moment 's sympathy for loathsome Mick Jagger . |
| 8 | And it does n't spare the blushes of Sean Connery , Roger Moore and the others who have been issued with the secret agent 's famous licence to kill . |
| 9 | She is , of course , renowned for her critical essays punctuated with cusses on the male of the species and does n't spare the blushes or the punches when exposing them to ridicule . |
| 10 | TO THE WOODS KEVIN MY GOOD MAN AND DO N'T SPARE THE HORSES ! ! |
| 11 | It has been the starting-point for many a vintage Sherlock Holmes adventure — ‘ London Bridge Station , cabby , and do n't spare the horses ’ . |
| 12 | Ca n't spare the sheep . |
| 13 | ‘ Ca n't spare the water , but by the time I 've finished cooking they 'll be sterile . ’ |
| 14 | In The Fourth Man , a 1979 film-noir -ish comedy about a homosexual writer , he highlighted a scene with two men kissing that does n't spare the saliva ; in Spetters , he knee-capped American audiences with his depiction of Holland 's teenagers and , in his sword'n'sorcery adventure Flesh And Blood , his damsel in distress Jennifer Jason Leigh is abducted and raped — and enjoys it . |
| 15 | ‘ Ca n't help that , chief You got to stick to your four-set clause and I ca n't spare the energy to beam you up . |
| 16 | She was living hand to mouth and she would n't spare the cash if she could help it . |
| 17 | None of them came back , you see : the Americans could n't spare the trucks and the farms were n't allowed to use their petrol for anything but getting food to market . |
| 18 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 19 | I wo n't do defended cases because I ca n't spare the time , not because I do n't feel competent . |
| 20 | Eventually she would train them to produce the kinds of designs she favoured , but for the moment , until she had her first collection down on paper , quite frankly she could n't spare the time . |
| 21 | Her mum loves it , her friends think the attention is great , but bosses at a firm of Belfast architects could n't spare the city girl the time off she needed for her modelling . |
| 22 | It wo n't obstruct no light though because I told you the sun is more er , without the back it joins down the car |
| 23 | ‘ You can block your entrances provided you do n't obstruct a right-of-way , and provided you take ‘ reasonable care ’ to avoid causing injury to trespassers . |
| 24 | However , ‘ Mrs. Butler , one of the aged attendants ’ appeared before the committee , and said that she could n't bathe the females without help ; to which matron replied that there were no able-bodied female inmates in the institution to give such assistance . |
| 25 | Yet he knew , at least in this he was n't alone : the feeling , if it did n't pervade the camp , certainly pervaded his section . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't sack a man because of his friends , ’ he said forthrightly , ‘ and Caretaker 's family have been in Medewich a long time . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't broadcast the fact that I live in a castle . |
| 28 | Welsh could n't grade a bag of Homepride . |
| 29 | And then the women I did want to go to bed with , but could n't conduct a conversation with . ’ |
| 30 | It did n't emphasize the internationalism , it homed in on what it — correctly-saw as a Fleet Street preoccupation . |