Example sentences of "[adj] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That doth not smack of observation ; |
| 2 | Right I 'm not giving you long to do this do n't waste time . |
| 3 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 4 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 5 | The fact that she was free did n't alter Fen 's situation . |
| 6 | ‘ The English did n't seem to know right what they were doing . |
| 7 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 8 | The English did not come . |
| 9 | The English do n't talk about things , they make an atmosphere . |
| 10 | Of course , that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States , but what 's always puzzled me is how you English do n't seem to share the view of the French . |
| 11 | I wanted to write books about psychiatry and the English do n't like that . |
| 12 | All I wanted to say was when you speak of ‘ collaborators ’ , you English do n't know what you are talking about . ’ |
| 13 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 14 | If the English do not like children , it is because they think they ought to behave properly , responsibly and quietly in their presence and can never riot or have a good time when they 're around . |
| 15 | Perhaps the English do not know what an immense treasure they possess in having maintained the choral tradition in colleges and churches , since it provides an unsurpassable musical training , an important number of truly fine choirs , and , finally , the possibility to experience ( and for the listener , to enjoy ) repertories that the long-suffering Spanish enthusiast scarcely knows since they are not performed [ in Spain ] . |
| 16 | a little bit else about making it interesting do n't worry about yawning in my courses , at least it shows you 're still alive . |
| 17 | The terms masculine and feminine do not refer to ‘ essences ’ , definite , unchanging qualities which exist independently . |
| 18 | Unlike Mazda the bankruptcy of the Sanko Steamship Co. in 1985 did not stir any great sympathy because the company management had a previous record of arrogance ‘ likened to that of a rowdy lone wolf refusing to line up with other shipping firms ’ ( FTW31/8/85 ) . |
| 19 | In those circumstances , the judge held that the provisions in the legislation of 1985 did not apply in the present case which continued to be governed by the Act of 1957 . |
| 20 | This did n't matter to us , as we were putting in new pipework . |
| 21 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 22 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 23 | Usually this did n't matter because the Parquet confined itself to criminal offences and there was no religious dimension involved . |
| 24 | This did n't last long , however , as one customer thought it was there to be consumed ! |
| 25 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 26 | But this did n't stop him , and other objectors , from effectively countering the basis for the diversity argument — the need to have a ( nuclear ) choice away from coal . |
| 27 | This did n't stop the rock press from gnashing its teeth and a prize was certainly in the offing for the writer who could effectively belittle the Morrissey figure . |
| 28 | This did n't stop the interview from re-surfacing two weeks later in Zigzag wherein Morrissey acknowledged his undying erotic passion for leather car seats , amongst other things … all fairly lightweight banter and all revolving , enticingly ( ? ) around Morrissey 's underlying eroticism . |
| 29 | Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus . |
| 30 | Of course , this did n't stop him from shamelessly flirting with and teasing the scores of solicitous museum officials that came to see him ! ’ |