Example sentences of "n't [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where death is concerned , rationality does n't necessarily fly out of the window but does appear to hover rather uncertainly over the sill . |
| 2 | But she could n't just walk out of the old woman 's life , not without preparing her first . |
| 3 | You ca n't just walk in off the street and say ‘ I want to study a degree in neurophysiology or erm or chemistry even . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We ca n't just drive back through the middle of St Denis , ’ Rogers said . |
| 5 | They do n't just turn up on the night , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Like I say , she do n't usually come back till the morning . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't always keep up with the old bugger , but I 'm never far behind . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps they did n't ever go up in the loft . |
| 9 | When turning a corner into the next aisle of the shop , do n't tamely walk round behind the trolley and push it in the new direction . |
| 10 | In the eyes of such politicians , industrial managers were not seen as the creators of the nation 's wealth , and the providers of job opportunities for the people , but as despoilers of the environment ; obsolete men , peddling obsolete views , who did n't really fit in with the new social scheme of things . |
| 11 | I did n't simply black out at the table , oh no . |
| 12 | ‘ While we welcome their joyriding legislation it does n't even go back to the situation we had previously . |
| 13 | I do n't even go out on the street now unless she comes with me . |
| 14 | Forewarned , I do n't even show up at the Institute till gone 11 . |
| 15 | He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road . |
| 16 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't even get out of the car , ’ Graeme recalls , but he was amazed by what he saw . |
| 18 | Colin loved the land but he would n't even get out of the van to look at the house . ’ |
| 19 | And low and behold you ca n't even get back into the kitchen because the kitchen is full of deadly fumes from the burning fat or er fat or oil within the chip pan . |
| 20 | Not nearly so self-consciously ‘ modern ’ as , say , Slaves Of New York , this disaster-laden story of a Manhatten misfit who 's had enough does n't quite live up to the provocative promise of its title . |
| 21 | The action does n't quite live up to the presentation : it 's simple overhead-view stuff with no frills , but fun nonetheless . |
| 22 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating and while I found that McAfee VirusScan did n't quite live up to the advertisers ‘ claims , it was able to spot over 84 per cent of the infected files in my library . |
| 23 | ( Sometimes people drift off and dream up indicators which do n't adequately tie in with the end result . ) |
| 24 | thinking about it , you 're saying the appraisal thing do n't actually link in with the tree the team . |
| 25 | I mean , if somebody ca n't actually go back to the person they 've harmed in a in a one to one situation , there 's no reason why they should n't be doing some other form of community service . |
| 26 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 27 | If everyone who is anyone does n't actually touch down on the planet fairly often , at least their activities come to be known through Uulaa 's favourite indoor sport ( after making money ) — trading information , along with rumour and scandal . |