Example sentences of "n't [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Good relations with creative people are also essential , for you may have to advise the art director that the transparency he has chosen wo n't reproduce too well . |
2 | The form before him did n't re-dissolve however , for which fact Gentle was only half glad . |
3 | ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’ |
4 | The newspaper claimed she said : ‘ I wo n't bail out those two silly girls ’ and |
5 | If you do n't bail out now , it could well be the sack or demotion . |
6 | And she was n't depending only on her instinct — yesterday he had come home too late to go to the Sabbath commencement service and looking very tired . |
7 | There was the mortgage to pay and the electricity bill for the central heating they could n't economise there because of Debbie needing warmth — and the hire-purchase on the bedroom suite to find . |
8 | After the gig , we mooch around the band 's dressing room and try to give off an inconspicuous vibe ( a hard one , since we 're the only ones that are n't stoned out of our gourds and do n't have accents that can hack their way through huge mountain ranges ) . |
9 | He did n't think that was quite right , but had n't formulated why . |
10 | nothing happy , you ju just to stand there , you ca n't laugh properly and you ca n't do this , and you ca n't do this , it 's worse |
11 | No doubt it amused him , but although he did n't laugh outright he took this way of telling her she could forget it . |
12 | Oh yeah erm do n't laugh so loud cos you 're likely cut out the microphone . |
13 | She was quiet and did n't laugh very often . |
14 | I suspected that he did n't laugh much , probably on religious grounds . |
15 | Napier have said that once they get this course up and running there 's absolutely no reason why experienced people like us ca n't dip in and out for a one off |
16 | Do n't plough on until you 've picked up supplies . |
17 | I know it 's difficult , I know the City is highly congested and we ca n't plough down beautiful buildings in order to make better roads and so on , and that is n't what we want to do . |
18 | Being the casual criminals they were , they did n't persist long in the chase . |
19 | But er we went from erm Quay , we did stay at Belfast for a about erm just er a few hours , picked up the Belfast passengers , they , they , we did n't dock there , we they came on by tender . |
20 | He tells us to look for a loner , probably from a disturbed family background , may have a dominant mother , does n't relate easily to people , particularly women , could be impotent , unmarried , separated or divorced , with a resentment and hatred of the opposite sex . |
21 | We had n't fallen apart , we 'd drifted apart . ’ |
22 | Now it 's not immediately obvious from that time series that there 's a structural break , right , textile consumption has n't fallen dramatically , right , or risen dramatically over the post war period , oh sorry du during the er the war period . |
23 | We have n't fallen out with them at all . |
24 | I have n't fallen off , but my back wheel 's in the air , and I 'm leaning on the guy 's boot . |
25 | Many had n't travelled abroad before . |
26 | What she did n't bargain on was you whisking her off to the country and locking all the doors . |
27 | Yeb is n't faring much better . |
28 | Up ahead the traffic lights were on red but he did n't slow up . |
29 | Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope . |
30 | She did n't slow down until she was almost out of breath . |