Example sentences of "n't [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't laugh into the receiver , but the idea of Manning Jackson taking a chance was something new .
2 ‘ It seems she does ; you would n't persist in a story that will be disproved as soon as I meet Mr and Mrs Smith , but I do n't believe you 're identical twins .
3 10 Do n't persist in a procedure that fails to work .
4 And there 's no gummed edge so the paper was n't ripped off a pad .
5 ‘ Anyone who gets toothache but is n't registered with a dentist wo n't be accepted . ’
6 Well it , it , it , it does n't relate to a pattern erm to be an analogy .
7 ’ Yates felt that , ‘ Dustin did n't relate to the character because I do n't think Dustin likes to be thought of as nice and charming .
8 ‘ People ca n't relate to the supermodels anymore , ’ said Four Seasons advertising executive Glyn Hayes .
9 ‘ And how do we know that everything in this dump has n't fallen off the back of a lorry ? ’
10 Stephen 's mother had n't fallen from the cliff-path in a gust of wind : she had been pushed by Stephen 's father .
11 No I have n't fallen in the river or anything .
12 And as we drove away , we had n't travelled down the road very far when my wife looked at me in a certain way … and I knew that she wanted Low Birk Hatt as much as me .
13 I have n't travelled with a maid for years .
14 ‘ They do n't graze like a herd of sheep and keep all the vegetation down to one level , ’ says Robson .
15 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 .
16 We see each other every now and again , but we are n't joined at the hip like Siamese twins , you know . ’
17 Anyway , the fact is that if it had n't rained in Japan , if he had n't withdrawn from the race after a few laps and waited until the weather improved , he , not James Hunt , would have been champion .
18 News of one did n't transmit to the other .
19 ‘ I had n't realised at the time how tough it was , ’ he admits .
20 ‘ I ca n't explain over the phone .
21 You ca n't explain to a child . ‘
22 It is the sort of thing you ca n't explain to a child . ’
23 It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself .
24 Is n't taught in the seat behind … .
25 It 's a lovely world , beautiful world but it 's the people in it you see who are spoiling things so much and I do n't understand youngsters you see but because young people erm there , there was a time when youngsters just er do just as they like and they were n't reprimanded by the parents , whereas my parents were very strict you see and it did n't do me any harm and I 'm glad now that they were .
26 Trust : But the happy couple did n't rush to the altar to formalize their alliance .
27 Very busy I have n't stopped for a second .
28 I I mean I think I think in retrospect the erm this is n't intended as a criticism erm of past work , but I do think we need to look at getting as much volunteer help in the town towards volun volunt environmental achievements as possible because one of our one of our claims is that we 're cost effective and can galvanize voluntary effort , and if we erm put all of our work out to tender including relatively small works , we 're actually going to negate that particular claim and we 're gon na look as as as er cost cost wasteful as the district council and the county council in their use of professional help all the time , even though there may be people in the community who are prepared to help .
29 It was n't intended as a writing implement , and the shapes it drew were angular and hard to read .
30 we have n't enrolled in the heavens you see
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