Example sentences of "n't [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those things should n't 've been there , for some reason they 'd infuriated him . |
| 2 | So if if the cadres had taken the law and 's speech there should n't 've been the sorts of problems that , that we came up against . |
| 3 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 4 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 5 | Of course she knew that Silas had inherited this property , but what she had n't realised was that I have the right to live in the house for my lifetime , or until I happen to marry again . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm afraid I do n't regard being unable to make money from the event as a reasonable excuse . ’ |
| 8 | And once you 've finished that you 'll be taken by special puke resistant ambulance to double triple quadruple maths with all that custard you could n't eat being forced into you on a drip feed ! |
| 9 | Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’ |
| 10 | To say aloud that God does n't exist is to thereby negate the Devil . |
| 11 | I was encouraged to do A level maths at school , but did n't fancy being in a group full of nasty adolescent boys ( as I then saw it ) and so opted for English and languages . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't fancy being anyone 's mistress , any more than you fancy being a husband . ’ |
| 13 | I told you — I just did n't fancy being another name on your list . |
| 14 | Mam was just about to be rehoused by the council , and did n't fancy being so far out of town . |
| 15 | I did n't fancy being around when Sunil got back to check his library . |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't fancy being a monk . ’ |
| 17 | What they did n't make was a meal . |
| 18 | Now , what we do n't want are detailed particulars of the shop , the salesperson 's home address and physical attributes . |
| 19 | What I do n't want is a man who takes me out for a meal , buys a bottle of cheap plonk and expects payment in the form of instant sex , either in the back of his car , or if he gets really lucky , in my flat . |
| 20 | Setting up services that carers do n't want is obviously wasteful . |
| 21 | what we do n't want is a |
| 22 | What I do n't want is to do it so seldom that he gets angry ; because he does if he has to wait too long . |
| 23 | What you think , what you do n't want is things that spread very widely . |
| 24 | I do take on , I do take on one point that the Conservatives have begun to raise to make in their in their motion which what we do n't want is another heavy tier of bur bureaucracy . |
| 25 | Well what we do n't want is |
| 26 | ‘ What I do n't want is simply a repeat of that meeting , ’ said Mrs Thompson . |
| 27 | And one thing we do n't want is extra work . |
| 28 | I do n't want Is that the bigger box ? |
| 29 | But what you do n't want is a series of conversations with two or three different people all of whom really want you to go away and are just trying to pass the buck to someone else . |
| 30 | What I do n't want is ten minutes of waffle and one and a half minutes of pure gold . |