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 .
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