Example sentences of "n't [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’ |
| 2 | Being the casual criminals they were , they did n't persist long in the chase . |
| 3 | There is a fire-tinge of violence to it here in New York , as there is to everything in this city , which just wo n't slow down like the other city did and get more innocent and less crazy and less dirty-colourful . |
| 4 | ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’ |
| 5 | Prospective players need n't rush out to the gym though . |
| 6 | Do n't rush in with the word before he/she has had time to think , but do n't leave him/her struggling . |
| 7 | ‘ The home market is n't demanding enough about the quality and finish compared with its European counterparts , ’ says York . |
| 8 | Staring out at the low grey sky , the drizzle that had n't stopped once on the journey up from Wexford , she jammed on her hat . |
| 9 | But at the time I was just hurt that I could n't wade out into the lake and save them . |
| 10 | Ken produced some of his standard characters that were to become as closely identified with him as was ‘ Stop messing about ’ — which did n't disappear totally from the airways . |
| 11 | He said well you 've got to stay to the end I mean , but do n't stay right to the end , you know sort of |
| 12 | So if you are a die-hard player who ca n't stay away from the golf course during the winter months , why not try a golfing holiday on the Continent ? |
| 13 | ‘ You ca n't stay away from the wedding ! |
| 14 | They can not er , although i it 's not that er , er that sort of erm instinct does n't exist anymore in the Indian-Asian woman . |
| 15 | Quickly look around to make sure that you have n't jumped out of the frying pan into the fire and , if all is well , start running . |
| 16 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 17 | I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ? |
| 18 | Most of them were designed to make the most of the limitations of a character-based environment ; their procedures just do n't port easily into the Windows way of working . |
| 19 | Well , I daresay you 'd know I would n't nod off in the normal way . |
| 20 | Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering . |
| 21 | However , the speed and excitement of the third level simply ca n't make up for the boredom of the first two , thus banishing this product into the depths of mediocrity . |
| 22 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 23 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 24 | Of course , these would be the ones who did n't make straight for the pubs . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want out of the relationship , Mick . |
| 26 | By comparison with the immense popularity of contemporary feminist fiction , it seems that feminist art has n't broken out of the tine art ‘ ghetto ’ . |
| 27 | Lucy Lane said : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journal . ’ |
| 28 | And Lucy Lane : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journals . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't cash in on the fact that you know I — I 'm susceptible to you . |
| 30 | I ca n't think where at the moment . |