Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But he did n't laugh with her .
2 If you are fascinated by celebrities , try Margaret Forwood 's The Real Benny Hill ( Robson , £15.95 ) and Norman Wisdom 's Do n't Laugh At Me ( Century , £14.99 ) .
3 And this is what I 'm thinking of doing , so do n't laugh at me , because I 'm thinking of doing it .
4 ‘ Do n't laugh at me , Theda ! ’ he warned , catching her glance .
5 but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it .
6 But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way .
7 You did n't laugh at him did you ?
8 Well , it 's a sad thing if you ca n't laugh at yourself is n't it , eh ?
9 The Ex-Wives returns to the comic vein of some of her earlier writing : ‘ I wanted to entertain myself , I lay on the floor on my stomach , scribbling away and laughing — well , if I ca n't laugh at my own jokes , who else can ? ’
10 Somebody must be doing his mending for him , as she was doing Willis 's , and the idea gave her a stab of pain which she could n't relate to her other feelings .
11 But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency .
12 Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply could n't relate to them .
13 Our school 's library does n't relate to what we need at all .
14 It would n't relate to what it costs
15 I ca n't relate to their starting point and assumptions about my oppression .
16 It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be .
17 Erm , well , I 'm not sure , but if you find it erm , ask me , because I ca n't relate to it .
18 Er for , for people who are going to group and and , for any young people who are going observers there are special arrangements to be made which does n't relate to our official represented district , I 'm sorry about that !
19 Problems arise if the fry stray from the parents and do n't graze from their sides for food .
20 ‘ Do n't bleat to me about fairness , ’ he rasped , his tone suddenly harsh .
21 After our two boys was killed I wanted ter move out but Sadie would n't 'ear of it .
22 ‘ Why ? ’ she just had to ask , ‘ when ? ’ and , most oddly , felt a tension in the air that , for once , did n't emanate from her .
23 ‘ Do n't joke about it , ’ Candy returned solemnly .
24 ‘ You 're right , I should n't joke about it .
25 Do n't tread on them . ’
26 ‘ I do n't like her much ’ , he said , pointing to its creator ‘ but you do n't tread on it .
27 Rifkin has been at the forefront of the struggle to make biotechnology accountable to the public since 1977 , when he invaded the stage at a conference of the National Academy of Sciences , brandishing a banner reading ‘ Do n't tread on my genes . ’
28 Do n't tread in it , whatever you do ! ’
29 Butler could n't adapt to his new defensive role , and Chapman began to look around for a more solid defender , not necessarily a player with much technical skill , but one who could clear accurately under pressure , feeding the ball to an inside-forward .
30 ‘ Do n't trifle with me , girl !
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