Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] do n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watering with a hose pipe does n't take long and weeding as a task hardly exists . |
| 2 | No , a drug addict does n't get any help . |
| 3 | A baseball player does n't have to pay for transport . |
| 4 | It 's not a whoop it 's not a whooping cough do n't get me wrong but it 's you know he 's chesty |
| 5 | What a pity Roman did n't take after any of them , she thought privately , smiling as Christian reached out a rather sticky little hand and tugged the poppy-flowered silk sleeve of her sheath-dress , and then caught at the heavy blonde plait at her nape . |
| 6 | ‘ It does you credit , and it 's a pity Dana does n't feel the same way about you . ’ |
| 7 | A spreadsheet program does n't replace the traditional accounts package as a means of keeping track of where a business spends its money but it be a powerful tool for preparing analyses or projections . |
| 8 | I have n't used the word poverty I 've used a phrase about lack of financial resources because it relates more obviously and directly to many of the concerns of the Board for example almost certainly the real reason why there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem is that the income of a village carpenter did n't go near the exorbitant prices being charged by mine host when , to use the good Scots phrase , the cow calved and there was this boom over the crows for the census . |
| 9 | A durium skullsheath does n't come cheap . |
| 10 | A shame Ocean did n't blow the whistle on it . |
| 11 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 12 | For a moment Campion did n't answer . |
| 13 | But a room divider does n't have to be a permanent fixture , particularly if you do n't have much space . |
| 14 | Just because I do n't have a confessional nature does n't mean that I forget things . |
| 15 | Hello Chr hang on a minute Chris do n't go away hello Chris . |
| 16 | A baby carriage Do n't mean a marriage — |
| 17 | And I can only really regret with er with hindsight that er we as a District Council did n't pursue our point er more vigorously , erm as our general approach to these matters is er to cooperate as far as we possibly can rather than enter into conflict , and I think that perhaps we had n't given as much emphasis to er the er our views as we ought to have done . |
| 18 | Then , a woman Katherine did n't recognize , blonde , statuesque in a sculpted magnetic blue dress which revealed an expanse of creamy throat on which a single jewel radiated . |
| 19 | In the middle of Reverend Barr 's address a woman Maggie did n't recognize completely broke down and had to be led away . |
| 20 | As to the second criticism , it is true that a talking-head programme does n't provide visual clues as to content , but it does permit the language learner to watch as well as listen , to see lip movements and facial expressions and to see what the speaker looks like . |
| 21 | Using a member of a trade association does n't guarantee a high standard of work . |
| 22 | As long as power oscillated between two evenly-balanced parties , who shared more or less the whole of the vote , the election of a minority government did n't matter too much . |
| 23 | TERRORISTS who planted a 400lb bomb at a Glengormley hotel did n't care how many people they killed , local councillors have said . |
| 24 | But a Hague Linker does n't have a tension arm and spring — come to think of it , of course it does . |
| 25 | Erm and a lot clubs do n't have that . |
| 26 | A model car does n't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy ! |
| 27 | But if you have any unhappy memories from being forced into team sports and cross-country runs as a school child do n't try and repeat them — try something new ! |
| 28 | Every week since last September when the chat show season began Mark and his band — Eugene Glenn , Brian Skeffington , Ciara Harrison and Hugh Faloona are the others — have waited in the wings in case a guest celebrity did n't turn up . |
| 29 | Yeah and a shire horse does n't go very fast . |
| 30 | I do n't know whether , whether it sort of erm rang any bells with you but normally if you 're in a house people do n't offer you dri they usually say would you like a cup of tea or a cup of coffee and I just wondered , perhaps it 's my suspicious nature , whether this guy 's got a drink problem |