Example sentences of "[vb base] n't [be] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't be too sure of that , ’ Rourke advised nastily as the door closed on his two colleagues . |
| 2 | Do n't be too sure of that Councillor . |
| 3 | However , do n't be too alarmed by this for , these are VERY slow growers . |
| 4 | And do n't be too gentle with him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Peregrine , sweetest one , do n't be too bloody to poor Nigel . |
| 6 | Do n't be too ambitious in the early stages . |
| 7 | Do n't be too ambitious in the early stages . |
| 8 | Spot reduction Do n't be too harsh on spots ! |
| 9 | But do n't be too easygoing about allowing your child too much freedom with the baby . |
| 10 | Try to view your work as dispassionately as you would any other programme you might watch on the television — but do n't be too hard on yourself , you are now comparing your efforts with the work of skilled professionals ! |
| 11 | Do n't be too hard on yourself |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't be too hard on yourself . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't be too hard on me , ’ he said . |
| 14 | JERVIS : Pamela , do n't be so pert to his honour . |
| 15 | ‘ One hint , do n't be so coy with the men you deal with , they might misconstrue your intentions and try to take advantage of you . ’ |
| 16 | " Do n't be so sure about that . |
| 17 | ’ Do n't be so sorry for yourself . ’ |
| 18 | Do n't be so nasty to your mum . |
| 19 | Do n't be so nasty to mummy . |
| 20 | Do n't be so severe with me , Gildas , I 'm under an awful strain , I think something terrible is going to be required of me . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , chérie , do n't be so hard on her ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't be so hard on yourself , ’ said Doris . |
| 23 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 24 | Deary me , I was well drunk I s I have n't been , I have n't been that drunk since the Playpen gig . |
| 25 | ‘ I have n't been entirely honest with you , Inspector . ’ |
| 26 | Have n't been so relaxed for ages have we . |
| 27 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 28 | Then he said , ‘ This probably is n't the right time to say this , but I have n't been totally honest with you … . ’ |
| 29 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 30 | ‘ We have a problem in Scotland in that our company start-up rate is about half that of England 's and banks have n't been very keen on it in the past . ’ |