Example sentences of "n't do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , ' ’ said So-and-So , ‘ you would n't do a thing-like that . ’ , |
| 2 | ‘ He does n't do a damn thing for the good of mankind , but makes one hell of a fat living by buying cheap from one worker and selling the same thing dear to another worker . |
| 3 | He does n't do a damn thing , he does n't even pay his wife wages — I give up ! ’ |
| 4 | After the disastrous presidency of George Bush , Arfur Daley himself could n't do a worse job . |
| 5 | I did n't do a six . |
| 6 | You did n't do a six . |
| 7 | Now I 'm do n't do a six . |
| 8 | So erm if you ask them why they do n't do a certain thing you get a very very elaborate argument about it , which is often very difficult to er to er criticize or , or , or attack . |
| 9 | Father had , apparently , told her she was ‘ too stupid ’ to take a degree in maths , told her she could n't do a joint degree in physics and German because he could n't afford to pay for the year out , and had influenced her to apply for A university because that was where he had taken his degree . |
| 10 | ‘ She did n't do a great deal else , did she ? |
| 11 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 12 | Without Gesner and the rest of the cast they could n't do a great deal , but the Maritza scenes with Freddi could be rehearsed and several other small fragments of the three old operettas . |
| 13 | Well , anything that you can do there , erm in in the immediate future would obviously be helpful , to support our case for being considered as the er the er European supplier , erm , and likewise with Italy , Spain , and France , not withstanding that at the moment they do n't do a great deal of business , well Spain does a great deal of business , but I do n't suppose is in a position to do much in in the way of technical support , erm , right , |
| 14 | respect in order to ensure that there is adequate visibility from a single point of access from this dual property , it will be necessary to remove a considerable amount of existing hedge to the front of that property , it 's almost inevitable that it will have to come down , because it 's necessary from the visib visibility display point of view , now that will mean that the whole of these properties are clearly visible from the road , and a major part of the present hedging will have to come down , in short this proposal does n't do a great deal for the village , in fact as far as the residents of that end of the village are concerned it does a great deal of damage to the village , I |
| 15 | There 's a sense in which editors are very good at deciding what headlines are , and there 's , there 's a sense which you ca n't do a great deal about it . |
| 16 | You did n't do a similar assignment for the inner route north ? |
| 17 | Said well I do n't do a cheaper car than that . |
| 18 | Do n't do a prolonged ground run , though : 15 or 20 minutes is about the maximum . |
| 19 | As the day wears on they begin to mock each other , particularly Neil Strachan , the melancholy Presbyterian geologist , who keeps ruling out half their best ideas as bloody tectonic impossibilities , and who ca n't do a convincing German accent for the life of him . |
| 20 | If you do a good job , it sounds good ; if you do n't do a good job , it sounds terrible . |
| 21 | Your principles and hard held prejudices will be respected if for no other reason than one of simple commercial sense : you probably would n't do a good job creating the advertisement even if you tried , because you actively disbelieve in the product or proposition . |
| 22 | er when you were in the trade like mine if you did n't do a good job the man never come back to you , there was a , there was a blacksmith farrier in every village ! |
| 23 | You ca n't do a green all that |
| 24 | In general , do n't do a hard run on either of the two preceding days or the day after a race . |
| 25 | I mean , de a I , I think he does n't do a bad job on to be fair |
| 26 | I mean he does the big functions and he does n't do a bad job |
| 27 | I must say Jean , you did n't do a bad job for woman ! |
| 28 | Well th the thing is those of you who did it last year with me , it 'll follow much the same sort of format , so Erm but we did n't do a little talk before . |
| 29 | ‘ But I would n't do a fourth movie . |
| 30 | My king did n't do no good at all ! |