Example sentences of "n't [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good relations with creative people are also essential , for you may have to advise the art director that the transparency he has chosen wo n't reproduce too well . |
| 2 | The form before him did n't re-dissolve however , for which fact Gentle was only half glad . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’ |
| 4 | And she was n't depending only on her instinct — yesterday he had come home too late to go to the Sabbath commencement service and looking very tired . |
| 5 | There was the mortgage to pay and the electricity bill for the central heating they could n't economise there because of Debbie needing warmth — and the hire-purchase on the bedroom suite to find . |
| 6 | nothing happy , you ju just to stand there , you ca n't laugh properly and you ca n't do this , and you ca n't do this , it 's worse |
| 7 | No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it . |
| 8 | Oh yeah erm do n't laugh so loud cos you 're likely cut out the microphone . |
| 9 | She was quiet and did n't laugh very often . |
| 10 | I suspected that he did n't laugh much , probably on religious grounds . |
| 11 | Being the casual criminals they were , they did n't persist long in the chase . |
| 12 | But er we went from erm Quay , we did stay at Belfast for a about erm just er a few hours , picked up the Belfast passengers , they , they , we did n't dock there , we they came on by tender . |
| 13 | He tells us to look for a loner , probably from a disturbed family background , may have a dominant mother , does n't relate easily to people , particularly women , could be impotent , unmarried , separated or divorced , with a resentment and hatred of the opposite sex . |
| 14 | We had n't fallen apart , we 'd drifted apart . ’ |
| 15 | Now it 's not immediately obvious from that time series that there 's a structural break , right , textile consumption has n't fallen dramatically , right , or risen dramatically over the post war period , oh sorry du during the er the war period . |
| 16 | Many had n't travelled abroad before . |
| 17 | Yeb is n't faring much better . |
| 18 | I think that ERNIE is n't drawing as many prizes ! |
| 19 | Do n't joke too soon , Joe . |
| 20 | Only they do n't joke much about death . |
| 21 | The Application Systems Line of Business used to work under political constraints that made sure that it did n't tread too heavily on the mainframe business . |
| 22 | The problem is that Taurus tried to be too nice to everyone and did n't tread too hard on the banks ’ toes . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Why — because , though at any other time I could perhaps let my feelings have their head , this time , for a reason I simply was n't seeing then , I just knew that it could not be like that with you . ’ |
| 24 | On the other hand we got into a discussion yesterday as to whether the medical profession is n't devoting too much of its energy just to keeping people alive who really ought to be dead . |
| 25 | She had n't guessed then that the woman 's voice was Timothy Gedge 's . |
| 26 | It was absurd that she had n't guessed straightaway and absurd that he should be standing in a telephone booth somewhere , talking about a queue forming . |
| 27 | Some Tories think it 's a sop to the right from a weakened premier , the Government insist that the sell off is the best way to attract investment from the private sector into the railways , but there are signs that the break up of B R is n't proving as attractive to outside investors as the government hoped . |
| 28 | Trying to wind him up was n't proving very successful . |
| 29 | There can be few backpackers who have n't gazed dreamily at pictures of Europe 's great mountain ranges and wistfully thought ‘ That 's for me ! ’ |
| 30 | Shetland has no biting insects apart from a few midges in late summer , and I had n't realised just how much of a problem these Arctic mosquitoes could be . |