Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] [pers pn] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know what we want and we do n't accumulate unnecessary things . |
| 2 | It was all smell and I do n't know what it was ! |
| 3 | It 's some animal instinct , I suppose , like the fact that you like the way some people smell and you do n't like others . |
| 4 | Swallows fly but they do n't swim ; and whales swim but they do n't fly . |
| 5 | I I say but I do n't feel as I want |
| 6 | As soon as I start thinking that I stop and I do n't make any more music like that . |
| 7 | The women in the village say , ‘ Poor Elizabeth , she has a lot to put up with , with that big old house and Angharad , and Hywel working so hard on the farm ’ , but their eyes gleam as they speak and they do not like her . |
| 8 | You only get one chance and then you die and they do n't let you go round again after you 've got the hang of it ! |
| 9 | When an idiom is just something that has the form of , has a certain apparent grammatical form but actually occurs just as a single unit of a fixed meaning , so it has no genuine semantic structure from which you can determine its meaning , for example kick the bucket means die and you do n't get that in the meaning of kick the bucket . |
| 10 | I listen but I do n't talk about myself — I like to think because I believe in privacy , but really it 's because I 'm too proud to admit failure . |
| 11 | With impregnated pellets the fish benefit but you do n't get clouded water . |
| 12 | I know I 've never had some of the breaks I deserve but I do n't allow myself to dwell on this . |
| 13 | " I do n't know what you mean and I do n't want to . |
| 14 | I think that 's a good point actually and that maybe target setting is sort of a training that we ought to do with all staff , I mean and I do n't know how much of that comes into this magic three hours . |
| 15 | ‘ My friends are people that I trust and I do n't have to put on airs with them — they know me and do n't assume that I 'm a terrific snob if I happen to be very quiet . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll handle this , ’ said Dad ‘ Look Amy , you mother and I do not have much money . |
| 17 | At the same time he knows a lot of this is going to get known by the people who matter and he does n't want to be the man who hindered the investigation . |
| 18 | I mean if if you 're here even now you 've got your notes down rather than in your hand and and you stand and read but you do n't use that or you do n't use that then there is that tendency is n't there to ? |
| 19 | Swallows fly but they do n't swim ; and whales swim but they do n't fly . |
| 20 | We 've trying showing her that we do n't mind when we lose but it does n't seem to work work . |
| 21 | Yes I know what you mean but I do n't fancy you messing about with the grasscutter . |
| 22 | And you you forget what you already know or you do n't bother with it you do n't bother sort of concentrating on that thing , Oh let's get that bit right . |
| 23 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 24 | All that matters is that we know and they do n't know that we do . ’ |
| 25 | No I know and I do n't fancy litter trays and things either . |
| 26 | you know and you do n't want that when you 're eating a meal . |
| 27 | Yeah I know but they do n't turn up and you get all tangled up all over the place |
| 28 | And erm not only er do I think that er she 'll probably be reasonably good with , with finals I 'm absolutely sure that her course reports from , you know , all the places where she 's been will be better than most of the other candidates , you know , because she brings home these , the these reports , you know , and she says it looks alright , you know , beginning of the course Nurse is lacking in this or has not got that or is not , you know , you think mm pretty the end of the course Nurse got the hang of , is very good , has done this , has done that , has supported this and you think mm pretty , well that 's lovely you know but she did n't have the experience during the whatever , she had been given the experience and the end of it brilliant |
| 29 | I know but you do n't have to do it every single day do you ? |
| 30 | Yeah I know but I do n't do it purposely . |