Example sentences of "[noun pl] just [verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. It would be best to feed your proposed trickle filter from a properly drilled tank ; syphons and valves just do n't work . |
| 2 | But some schools just do n't know what to do with the computers . |
| 3 | Is part of the problem that the schools just do n't communicate with the parents ? |
| 4 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |
| 5 | The trouble here is that these kids just do n't understand it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 've tried one or two of them , but the kids just do n't want to know . |
| 7 | The kids just do n't seem to know the difference between movies and and what 's real . |
| 8 | I wish PWL had far more competition , but when it comes to pop music the major labels just do n't understand it . ’ |
| 9 | Great Frank , but unfortunately my strengths just do n't allow me to run that way . |
| 10 | The lads just have n't been doing the business over the last 2 or 3 games though have they ? |
| 11 | Traditional clubs just did n't want to hear that message so Sohl , frustrated with the depressing state of affairs , built his own centre in Sutton . |
| 12 | Other medieval houses that are replicated medieval houses just have n't got on to the textiles in the way that we have . |
| 13 | Your thoughts and opinions just do n't matter to me . ’ |
| 14 | I know some folk wo n't change for anybody they just go harping on in their dialect and er well this fellow said some visitors just do n't understand him I always find myself translating in a situation like that . |
| 15 | Sight — is it just me , or does anyone else think these 3-D Freescape thingies just do n't work on 8-bit computers ? |
| 16 | Our lives just do n't fit together at all . ’ |
| 17 | Parents just do n't like it , you know — quite a lot of parents . ’ |
| 18 | But you know , I 'm getting older all the time ( laughs ) , and the tight trousers just do n't fit me like they used . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think we make the most of having a good time , which a lot of bands just do n't bother saying . |
| 20 | ‘ I think we make the most of having a good time , which a lot of bands just do n't bother saying . |
| 21 | Even on the richest land drought is damaging , but in a garden with sharp-draining soil — especially on a hot , south-facing site — it can create a positive dust bowl , a place where plants just do n't seem to survive . |
| 22 | And carry on just as if er we were proceeding immediately after the proposed excellent introduction and as if the intervening weeks just had n't occurred . |
| 23 | ‘ New guitars just have n't got any soul in them . |
| 24 | Most people who are used to working with cameras will know that certain colours just do n't work , but a few like to be reminded . |
| 25 | Most notably the sheer agony of sitting over a blank sheet of paper when ideas just do n't come . |
| 26 | The Spanish growers may be doing their best to provide tomatoes acceptable to the English market but evidently English varieties and the Spanish soil and climatic conditions just do n't suit each other . |
| 27 | Those things just did n't happen then . ’ |
| 28 | A lot of things just did n't sink in . |
| 29 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 30 | On the day , things just did n't go Swindon 's way . |