Example sentences of "n't [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | When questioned about his long-suffering wife Maggie , now his ex , he often said : ‘ She does n't chain me . ’ |
2 | she would n't chain it up , and it got hit and killed on the erm road just outside the Post Office was n't it ? |
3 | They ca n't spare me , poorly , though I may be . |
4 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
5 | I ca n't spare her , I ca n't — ’ |
6 | He still could n't spare him a drop of real hatred , though — Carter was the one . |
7 | ‘ But it 's my time , ’ I said as I stood up , ‘ and I ca n't spare it . |
8 | Well , he did n't mention Niki , he did n't congratulate him , embrace him , he did n't hand him so much as a crumb . |
9 | ‘ You should n't goad her , ’ said Enid . |
10 | Do n't dirty me , Bruce ! |
11 | For it was certain , Leith considered , that with the evidence Naylor Massingham had of seeing Travis in bed at her flat , and again seeing her with Travis in that hotel dining-room , he was going to want more from Travis than any declaration of , ‘ Leith is n't my girlfriend , so do n't sack her ’ . |
12 | Yeah , Oh you ca n't sack her for that ! |
13 | They could n't sack me , though . |
14 | MacArthur did n't say to Truman hey you ca n't sack me , I 'm the emperor of Japan , no ? |
15 | Lorrimer ca n't sack him . |
16 | Yeah but they ca n't sack you . |
17 | All that 's doing is for the senior associates , saying well look , I 've got such a large client bank I ca n't service them myself , so what should I be thinking of doing ? |
18 | It 's like saying , please do n't tell , please do n't broadcast it to the world , I can get hurt . |
19 | I wo n't laugh I promise ! |
20 | He said : ‘ But you could n't laugh it off , could you ? |
21 | Do n't dip it in your damson gin , another local treat . |
22 | That 's something that we do have to work on and I ca n't emphasize it too strongly . |
23 | Maura did n't blackmail you into it ? ’ |
24 | Old Mangle does n't wind me up as much as this this other one one with glasses . |
25 | Do n't wind him up |
26 | yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see . |
27 | It did n't slow him down and he led the way briskly into a comfortable room adjoining the refectory . |
28 | Now I wo n't slow you down . ’ |
29 | It does n't slow em up . |
30 | Because obviously if you had one particular factory on the tideway and another producing an identical product and identical effluent in one of the tributaries , you could n't treat them the same because they 're patently different cases . ’ |