Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There they go again , tweedly-deedly , tweedly-deedly , belly-aching the whole bleeding night , and the toasted cheese seizing on to their plates like goddam glue , which I durse n't go in to fetch them ; and never an honest tune from beginning to end . ’ |
| 2 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 3 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 4 | I 've done my own cleaning ready for Christmas which I had n't the energy for in the spring and my husband and I walk about 3–4 miles every day . |
| 5 | The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't . |
| 6 | You do record production for other bands , and you did the original demos for Van Halen , which I had n't realised until recently . |
| 7 | A certain crepuscularity of spirit had sauntered in , courtesy of a misunderstanding which I had n't bothered to trouble the prancing Squire and his Milady with ; not fair , in their state of mind , I thought . |
| 8 | Which I had n't known about or my mother and otherwise living near enough they could have s done that school and gone through from five years to er fourteen . |
| 9 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 10 | Statements such as , ‘ I did n't see it previously ’ ; ‘ I 've just noticed something new ’ ; I can see all sorts of things of interest which I had n't seen before' ; ‘ I was n't interested in that before … suddenly it has a very significant part to play ’ ; ‘ the painting is actually changing for me ’ ; ‘ I 'm just discovering it ’ ; ‘ I 've started now to appreciate … ‘ , abounded . |
| 11 | I snap , eyeing the lobsters , and observing a dozen fat oysters , discreetly arranged around them , which I had n't noticed before . |
| 12 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 13 | The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand . |
| 14 | The visitor told me things about her which I did n't believe , but still I nodded my head as if to confirm what she had said . |
| 15 | She accused me of instructing them to dig the wrong grave , which I did n't and I immediately defended myself and said : ‘ Mary , I did not . |
| 16 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 17 | ‘ There was another side to him which I did n't see at first . |
| 18 | ‘ I normally get that first thing in the morning , which I did n't today . |
| 19 | Well , after asking me for yardages , which I did n't have , Tom tested me out . |
| 20 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 21 | He gave me three games — which I did n't think was a fair chance . |
| 22 | Then they gave us a charge sheet — it was huge , something like 23 particulars , some of which I did n't even recognise . ’ |
| 23 | It got rid of the space between my teeth , which I did n't like anyway , so some good maybe came out of it after all . ’ |
| 24 | I got some stick from a small section of the Palace crowd which I did n't expect , but it did n't bother me . |
| 25 | I lost , of course , hardly surprising since the elections were carved up by the various political groups , most of which I did n't even know existed . |
| 26 | All I did n't want to happen was for him to become violent , which I did n't think was ever on the cards . |
| 27 | I was struck with terror , since my Russian vocabulary , while exemplary on maritime matters , extended little further than ‘ cow ’ , ‘ milk ’ , and ‘ bull ’ which I did n't feel was quite adequate for the occasion . |
| 28 | I did show in the Serpentine Gallery in 1975 but even that presented a problem of prudery which I did n't experience on the continent . |
| 29 | The majority , which I did n't have time to scan , appeared designed for juvenile rather than adult readers . |
| 30 | On this point , the head considers the project-inspired developments to have " taken off " at a pace which he had never envisaged : I think it 's been the instigator for a lot of cross-curriculum things which I did n't really anticipate ; I thought it might have been instigator for the sort of subject-based problems that would either stimulate something in the subject or the subject could actually move to the library and it 's obviously worked faster on the cross-curriculum aspect . |