Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 2 | but you see he 'd have a list of the horse who 's gon na work or win races well if them animals did n't eat up he did n't work them . |
| 3 | I 'd do it if my teeth did n't hurt ! |
| 4 | I did notice , however , that some of the wild plants and flowers that seemed to do well on my pastures did n't grow in other people 's fields . |
| 5 | My brothers did n't have to do housework ! |
| 6 | If my parents had n't sent me money every week , I could n't have survived . ’ |
| 7 | As my parents did n't like the idea of me going to live in the city on my own , they decided to move with me . |
| 8 | My parents did n't want to let me go , but I begged them and promised to come back very quickly . |
| 9 | Like Freya , I knew something was wrong with me precisely because my periods had n't come back , and weirder still ( I thought ) , I wanted them to . |
| 10 | My grandparents did n't push me towards academic life . |
| 11 | I was convinced that my feelings did n't matter and , anyway , I did n't really have any friends . |
| 12 | She 's found that my glasses did n't seem to be right . |
| 13 | ( My sisters did n't figure in the will . ) |
| 14 | My in-laws did n't know — I did n't tell them . |
| 15 | ‘ My players did n't freeze at Anfield , and I know they wo n't be overawed about facing Liverpool again . |
| 16 | After the initial , " God , you 've had a baby ! " , everything was normal , my friends did n't treat me any different really . |
| 17 | All through the pregnancy I felt special , then suddenly all my friends did n't want to know me , only one friend , Karen , and she made me feel worse , as she was so glamorous and I was sitting there all fat . |
| 18 | No , no , my children did n't have any , although there 's , there 's er school going on , er being run by the temple all through these years . |
| 19 | My sausages had n't been all that satisfying , and I was feeling hungry again . |
| 20 | My thoughts had n't run in this way for years . |
| 21 | So we arrived on good time , Mala and I , was pleased that in a new hairpiece and fresh clothes — a long sleeved short-robe over loose trousers and soft boots , in shades of chartreuse and cinnamon — my injuries did n't show at all . |
| 22 | By some mix-up , my papers did n't seem to be in order and I had to hold on there until the proper American visa came through . |
| 23 | ‘ My students did n't know what phrasal verbs were until they discovered Streamline Directions Workbook ! ’ |
| 24 | My stones did n't come out very shiny . |
| 25 | I 'd be insulted if my colleagues had n't noticed . ’ |
| 26 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 27 | As Jean points out : ‘ When I grew up , my Mum did nothing else but cook our food ; her contemporaries did n't work . |
| 28 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 29 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 30 | Since her words did n't appear to be an invitation to food , he returned his intense concentration to the man . |