Example sentences of "do n't [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you !
2 ‘ It just did n't sink in at the time — I did n't quite realise what was happening .
3 If I say to you behaviourism is about di dum di dum and I did but obviously it did n't sink in at the time .
4 She did n't move in until the day she got married .
5 They did n't move out of the area necessarily .
6 My sister and I were investments that did n't pay off for the income that is derived from investment is unearned income : having made that initial payment , the investor need make no further effort .
7 So I did n't grow up with the idea that I had a poet in the family , by marriage of course .
8 If you did n't watch out for the traffic
9 I would have tried to ask Dudley Wood , secretary to the RFU , but he did n't show up at the new kit 's launch …
10 I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’
11 He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions .
12 The pencil lines on the back of the Lucky Strike packet that were supposed to represent the commercial heart of Glasgow , somehow did n't match up with the darkened canyon they were driving along .
13 The end result did n't match up to the pre-race hype .
14 Mm she did n't end up with the word
15 For light relief we had Valerie , and why she did n't end up in the same boat I 'll never know .
16 Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering .
17 No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway .
18 He did n't wander over to the rack of imported American comic books as he usually did , but he seemed to be watching the street outside .
19 He did n't go over to the Republic or see friends .
20 " It should have been in her handbag , because the shopman said she did n't go on to the pillar-box to post anything .
21 As a presage , she did n't go up to the top alone .
22 So one night I did n't go back to the Barracks for supper .
23 I did n't go back to the dining car but forward into the lounge , where again the sight of my yellow waistcoat stirred a few thirsts , which I did my best to accommodate .
24 There was a moment while everybody thought about that , probably for no good reason except that they did n't like to see twenty years go by without offering up a few seconds ' respect-ful silence , then Sir Bruce asked : ‘ So she did n't go back to the GDR ? ’
25 No , they did n't go back in the end .
26 ‘ And when you discovered Nicola and David Parkin were missing from the party , you did n't go down to the office again ? ’
27 We have a big mission down in Iraq , during the war we did all we damn well could to make certain those boys did n't go under to the Ayatollah 's shit-pushers .
28 Er they they did n't go out with the cart , just with a regular who used to go out with the with the horses and carts .
29 A lot of them worked with er coltsfoot it stayed in , it did n't go out with the sea-gusting . .
30 Finishing the book and having to go back to take photographs specially for it left me a bit jaded , so I did n't go out to the Alps this year .
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