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

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1 Her mum loves it , her friends think the attention is great , but bosses at a firm of Belfast architects could n't spare the city girl the time off she needed for her modelling .
2 But she was n't seeing the chimney pots or the river ; what she was seeing were the clothes in her wardrobe , those beautiful clothes .
3 there must be a realistic view of what can be achieved but it should n't hinder the improvement process nor stunt enthusiasm .
4 And the Trade Unions do n't regard the N H S as a an employment exchange , but what we do expect is consultation and involvement in those changes .
5 Parma ham with melon ( a little more calorie-costly — but they are usually providentially mean with the ham ) , do n't eat the ham fat 150
6 Do n't eat the microphone Rick .
7 Mr Chairman could I ask a question because one of the things that I 've found missing this evening is specific things that people would like to see in this playhouse or perhaps specific things that we used to do and that find are missing and the last I have n't heard the word gallery mentioned from there much at all what do we think about the gallery ?
8 Alexandra had n't heard the Colonel sound this cheerful since he 'd been confined to the wheelchair .
9 Dexter had n't heard the tape Blanche was playing before .
10 So er that paint did n't cover the skirting board very well .
11 The police only enforce the law , they ca n't make the law work , the people who make the law work are the judiciary .
12 When the doctor would n't make the night call , saying it could wait till morning , my father said he would shoot him if my mother died .
13 But I wo n't make the phone call .
14 Last season we did n't make the play offs .
15 He does n't make the Commonwealth Final .
16 I ca n't make the East Mainland very well .
17 Take the High Road , which has been running for 13 years , does n't make the ratings tables because it is not slotted in a peak viewing time across the country .
18 ‘ I did n't make the dinner date either , I was due to play golf in Houston that week . ’
19 I says , I do n't want the burglar alarm , the smoke alarm going off .
20 I do n't want the kitchen sink .
21 And can I just say , a governing body that I am on , I 've just recently gone on to , employs private cleaning contractors , it did n't want the D S O , and ever since that contract has come in , they have been in terrible , terrible trouble .
22 You would n't want the Stone family harmed , now , would you ? ’
23 My pension , if I did n't have it if I say I do n't want the lump sum , the twenty one grand .
24 He said he did n't want the family name in disrepute , it was n't good for business .
25 They do n't even understand the Health Service , they do n't want the Health Service .
26 They did n't want the Health Service in the first place but we rapidly came round to it .
27 we do n't want the fire brigade we only want one man to come up !
28 you get the tuner , you get the equaliser and you get the , okay you do n't want the record deck , but you could always sell the record deck to buy new speakers
29 However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle !
30 I do n't think the I do n't think the D T I would have issued a investment management certificate to Robert Maxwell you know because he 'd done naughty things in the past , so he just would n't have got the certificate .
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