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 . ’
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