Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pron] [verb] not " in BNC.
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1 | She warned her successors ‘ to be jolly careful they do n't give government too many extra powers and undo what I 've done ’ . |
2 | no but you 've got them all in island right high you do n't |
3 | " Well , dear , I 'm only sorry it did n't work . |
4 | ‘ I 'm only sorry I did n't come to Israel 20 years ago . ’ |
5 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
6 | ‘ I 'm so grateful you did n't run over our Nellie , sir . |
7 | He was so pissed he did n't notice . |
8 | He told his literary friends that their stories and poems were so awful he did n't know what to say about them or how to get through the scheduled hour . |
9 | ‘ That cross-court angle was so acute it did n't exist ’ — the occasional hyperbole was always forgiven . |
10 | He was put in my arms and immediately he stopped crying but it was so strange I did n't feel anything . |
11 | Feel colossally guilty I have n't done anything like it myself . ’ |
12 | My solicitor got some papers for me to sign , but I was so depressed I did n't know what it was about . |
13 | I thought I heard him bring the cows in earlier but he 's grown so deaf he did n't hear when I called him . |
14 | It is so crap I do n't know what it is . |
15 | So high you do not hear the crash , only the wind |
16 | His spirits were so high he did n't detect the chill of fear in Lucy . |
17 | Thus you and the employee may jointly search for standards which are mutually acceptable which do not lead to hours of argument about whether or not they have been achieved . |
18 | Higher up the vegetation thinned out , but the climb was so steep I did n't care to look down . |
19 | We we do n't actually We 've got It 's got nine oxygen in it already , right so this one does n't actually need any air . |
20 | I hope we develop those that are so interesting you do n't want to put it down . ’ |
21 | His argument is so wrong I do n't know where to begin . |
22 | Trouble is if they get so much they do n't use it . |
23 | There 's so much you do n't know . ’ |
24 | Cos when you laugh so much you do n't , no noise comes out , you just have this kind of |
25 | He did not know Dinah 's handwriting ; there was so much he did not know about her , he told himself , tearing the envelope open urgently . |
26 | They parted nine years ago and the split distressed him so much he vowed not to get seriously involved with another woman for a very long time . |
27 | His eyes were cold water and he spat , which distressed Melanie so much she did not take in what he said . |
28 | She loved this tiny creature so much she did n't know how to contain it , or how to show it enough . |
29 | I suppose she was doing so much she did n't have time to write . |
30 | There was still so much I did n't understand . |