Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] do n't " in BNC.

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1 It 's just that I mean this is the only thing about Halloween that I do n't like is the import from America of this trick or treat nonsense .
2 He ca n't have put it there for effect because he did n't know who was going to be there .
3 But I had one ‘ misery ’ in this friendship : she went home for lunch and I did n't !
4 This is ridiculous I 'm not going to have time for lunch if I do n't go now …
5 They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector .
6 ‘ In fact my girlfriend Claudia and I have talked about marriage and I do n't see why we should n't wed sometime although we have not set a date .
7 He 's threatening him with lots of noise if he does n't !
8 But the danger is of course that we do n't cover everybody .
9 Now it could be said of course that we do n't offer the same kind of very intense opportunities that are on offer to undergraduates , but in some senses , and many adults have testified to this , this is an advantage , because it enables people in their own time , and sometimes over a fairly prolonged period , to explore with a tutor , a scholar , the kind of interests that they have in the issues that have concerned them in society .
10 Except of course … ’ she broke off to toss back the rest of the whisky and set the tumbler down on Hugo 's desk , ‘ except of course that I do n't suppose I shall be here long enough to make the adjustment . ’
11 and er er er er the situation is that you can , in , in some of these nursing schools where they have taught you and it is their letterhead that 's on your pass-out , they still are n't in a position to say oh well there 's a job of course because you do n't need to have passed out top , you know , to be guaranteed a job , there ai n't no jobs guaranteed for no one .
12 Of course if you do n't like this … perhaps the idea of may appeal :
13 And of course if he does n't retire at fifty five , the authority or , or the school , his A B C's just destroyed his pension .
14 You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw .
15 That 's right erm and of course and they did n't have that little bit of luck perhaps .
16 Probably er you know people 's probably got a bit of money so they do n't need to break in to anybody .
17 In the meantime , I think David had come to realize that he was responsible for an enormous amount of business at RCA in the United Kingdom — something like 4% of their total gross was David Bowie products — and he was making an enormous amount of money but he did n't have anything .
18 Cos they 're , cos waste of money if you do n't wear it .
19 I 'll tell you … you 're jealous , because they get a lot of money and you do n't have any !
20 I found a lot of guilt and a lot of fear that I do n't agree with . ’
21 It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’
22 The bridegroom wo n't go into transports of grief and you do n't put off your wedding because your best man 's been done in . ’
23 ‘ I put on lots of weight but I did n't weigh myself ever , and I did n't read any books .
24 Thank you for taking time for this interview , well that 's a load of crap cos I did n't give time .
25 You 're talking about all sorts of geography that I did n't study at school .
26 and it 's everything just to stop you getting at what , well get it then yeah , I 've , I do n't mind some of it , I 've not had a bit of marzipan for I do n't mind these erm almond slices , I quite like them , but I think it must be the texture of the marzipan
27 She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us .
28 But Joyce Standing , a member of several community groups on the estate , said : ‘ There are endless delays on North Road because of congestion but you do n't hear the bus companies threatening to stop those services . ’
29 What the hell 's the point of drinking if you do n't get drunk ?
30 We never wanted to be the first one when she had a new stick of make-up as she did n't take the cellophane wrapper off .
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