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

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1 There is a fire-tinge of violence to it here in New York , as there is to everything in this city , which just wo n't slow down like the other city did and get more innocent and less crazy and less dirty-colourful .
2 ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’
3 Prospective players need n't rush out to the gym though .
4 Do n't rush in with the word before he/she has had time to think , but do n't leave him/her struggling .
5 But at the time I was just hurt that I could n't wade out into the lake and save them .
6 Quickly look around to make sure that you have n't jumped out of the frying pan into the fire and , if all is well , start running .
7 For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse .
8 I still have n't heard back from the young lady who sent me the Valentine card ; did you really mean it ?
9 Well , I daresay you 'd know I would n't nod off in the normal way .
10 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 .
11 However , the speed and excitement of the third level simply ca n't make up for the boredom of the first two , thus banishing this product into the depths of mediocrity .
12 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 .
13 I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is !
14 ‘ I do n't want out of the relationship , Mick .
15 By comparison with the immense popularity of contemporary feminist fiction , it seems that feminist art has n't broken out of the tine art ‘ ghetto ’ .
16 Lucy Lane said : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journal . ’
17 And Lucy Lane : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journals . ’
18 ‘ Do n't cash in on the fact that you know I — I 'm susceptible to you .
19 They differ throughout the mag and certainly do n't tie in with the colours given in the boxes of different sections in the Menu section at the front .
20 Erm , the reason that that does n't tie in with the four hundred and eighty thousand pound er , increase in spending is that offsetting that seven hundred and seventeen thousand that you 've funded from your contingency , there is also a net reduction in spending by the Committee because of the changes in the devolution of central department charges and their allocation through committees , well less have been allocated to Social Services Committee in total .
21 You ca n't hang on to the past . ’
22 Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training .
23 Tackling a black run in a blizzard was a worry , but when you only have a long weekend you ca n't hang around for the sun to shine .
24 But do n't hang up on the shares because I reckon they could hit Pounds 4 by Christmas .
25 As the rugby people say , do n't hang about on the side-lines , stay in touch .
26 ‘ Do n't hang about in the bathroom ; it 's cold up there . ’
27 But you must n't hang about in the morning then , neither !
28 say , say , saying that we do n't hang about in the , he 's gone say that .
29 They were punctual to a minute , so we did n't hang out of the window — anyway the view on the roadside was very constricted , as far as arriving people were concerned .
30 I 'm surprised you did n't fall over on the way here . ’
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