Example sentences of "n't do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ca n't do away with them altogether ? |
| 2 | They wo n't do away with them , no but cos they , they 're trying to do away with the National Dock Labour Board and come back to the old system . |
| 3 | And Len had witnessed his reaction and this had prompted Len to do what he had said he would n't do again , and that was to try and persuade him to accompany him home . |
| 4 | What does n't pay you wo n't do again . |
| 5 | But in the overall scheme of things , we did n't do badly for media support . |
| 6 | As for drinking , we did n't do badly on the day and more followed later . |
| 7 | He did n't do badly in F. Ford , but F3 beckoned soon enough , a step which his biographer Eion Young rightly says proved a rite of passage from racing as a hobby to racing as a profession . |
| 8 | And , as I 'm sure you know — the Inspector 's judicious glance swept his audience — ‘ we can sometimes do in passion , say in passionate hatred , what we could n't do ordinarily . |
| 9 | It means you can pack in a lot more things in your day , you can work , you can look after your children , you can take them out , you can do a lot of things that you could n't do otherwise . |
| 10 | There 's mi minus four people coming to the party tonight , they 're all crackers , okay but it works , it 's very useful it solves an awful lot of problems like you know getting rockets to the moon and things like that that we could n't do otherwise . |
| 11 | ‘ If we do n't do well in the exam , if we do n't get anything here , ’ Sheila blurted out , as they said goodbye outside the front garden while Moran waited with the engine running to drive Maggie to the station , ‘ you may see us in London soon enough . ’ |
| 12 | If I do n't do well , then it will be because on the day I was not capable of doing so . |
| 13 | He also sees a rosy future for superstores : ‘ Superstores wo n't take the same percentage of the market as in the US , but that 's not to say they wo n't do well — they will . |
| 14 | I know that the sages often give conflicting advice , that the shrub or bush that you are about to prune looks nothing like the diagram in your hand , and as for the picture on the seed packet — well , enough said , but you do learn from their experience and your own what will and wo n't do well in your particular spot and even , if it does n't sound too fanciful , for your own particular temperament . |
| 15 | Both were loaded with works which , as Heinz Berggruen says , ‘ Did n't do well because they were n't any good ’ . |
| 16 | I 'm glad Durham seem pleased with the way it worked out , but it will have been a waste of time for me if I do n't do well in Sri Lanka and in the home series against West Indies . |
| 17 | Pigs bred for life inside do n't do well outside — so the Pig Improvement Company has come up with a tougher type of pig . |
| 18 | So in the longer term , building societies do n't do well . |
| 19 | " There 's nothing to stop you planting hardwoods , " he said , " but they wo n't do well . |
| 20 | We did n't do well in our own event . |
| 21 | ‘ In Holland if coaches do n't do well they get the sack , so I am philosophical about the matter . |
| 22 | they wo n't do well ? |
| 23 | Well I must admit , I have , I mean I do n't do well I used to make quite nice cakes , since I 've had this new cooker mine wo n't ri I mean they rise , there 's no doubt about that , they rise , but I can take them out , put them on a cooling rack and watch them deflate ! |
| 24 | I 'm warning you of this cos you know it 's disappointing if you do n't do well . |
| 25 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 26 | I fail to see why giants like Central Point and Symantec ca n't do likewise . |
| 27 | And he said well my father is doing today I ca n't do today I 'll do it Friday and I shouted down the stairs but he owes you a day you should n't be going in . |
| 28 | They do n't do here either . |
| 29 | Wh wh what we 're gon na do to a twelve hundred that we ca n't do here . |
| 30 | He said we dare n't do dead level with spirit level , bloody turf ! |