Example sentences of "n't [verb] to [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , you must remember , Mr McKillop , that the information I got from Elsie on that topic was n't given to me all at one time . |
| 2 | I would n't speak to him all the evening , or look at the things he 'd bought , even though I could see one of them was a picture-frame . |
| 3 | Taking responsibility would mean you would say , ‘ I felt upset when you did n't speak to me this morning . ’ |
| 4 | It did n't occur to me that criticism coming from an American of American business might be acceptable , but from someone like me , was much much harder to take . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't spoken to anyone all day , ’ she says . |
| 6 | If I ca n't attend to my own accounts after years of accountancy I might as well go and jump in the river . |
| 7 | he did n't take to them all that well |
| 8 | Mary Vorse pinpointed ‘ the time when old age finally claimed me ’ as the ‘ moment when my two boys were more thoughtful of me , when they did n't come to me any more with their perplexities . ’ |
| 9 | And then later on the script she ha to say he had to say to her well , call her , you leave her and if she does n't come to you that 's not your dog and take her to the pound and have her put down . |
| 10 | I ca n't write to you any more , that 's the trouble |
| 11 | P.C. Clifford , the driver of the car , got her name and address and a statement from her , though it does n't amount to anything more than that she was looking over the bridge and saw the body . |
| 12 | they do n't belong to me either of them . |
| 13 | Do n't talk to me any more then ! |
| 14 | That was sometimes too much even for the equally outrageous Orton , who partly envied the relationship Ken had with his mother — he knew he could n't talk to his own parent that way — and was partly disgusted by it , to the point of wanting to change the subject from sexual organs and sexual intercourse to something more inane . |
| 15 | Anyway , I do n't see why I should n't talk to my own son if I choose . |
| 16 | ‘ But your body did n't lie to me this afternoon . |
| 17 | I ai n't listened to it all myself yet |
| 18 | Erm I 've also received information on conference accommodation and on the billboards but I 've billed those as separate items so that you do n't listen to me half off all evening . |
| 19 | And she could n't listen to him any more , either , talking in low , confused tones about all the pain and pathos he was feeling , mixed with the glory and delight . |
| 20 | They wo n't listen to us any other way . ’ |