Example sentences of "n't [adv] [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problem is that the Government has n't properly thought through its proposals for contaminated land , ’ says Mr Humber . |
| 2 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 3 | In those days cookery writers were n't just filling out their recipes with ingredients they were being paid to sell . |
| 4 | LOOK , TRY AS I MIGHT , I CA N'T JUST WRITE OFF WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN US ON THAT ROCKY CUMBRIAN OUTCROP … |
| 5 | ‘ We ca n't just cut off our nose to spite our face , ’ he said . |
| 6 | To make sure that he has n't just come home I telephoned twice this afternoon , and again just before I left to come here . |
| 7 | And if I feel like it , I wo n't just screw up your life with that stupid , lame bitch , I 'll make her part of the deal . |
| 8 | Are you , er is it still time , or is there still time for people to get involved if they have n't already filled in their application form ? |
| 9 | She even introduced me to my wife , but she knows she did n't exactly do either me or Rachel a favour that time . ’ |
| 10 | Maurice who still had n't exactly made out who he was , suddenly cared intensely about the loss . |
| 11 | I know I 'm at the station , cos that 's obvious , it 's just I ca n't exactly remember how I got here . |
| 12 | He 's guessed that I suspect something , but he ca n't possibly know just what , nor how . |
| 13 | And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye . |
| 14 | Part of this may be because , as World Cup-winning captain Nick Farr-Jones says : ‘ He 's the sort of player whose brain does n't always know where his legs are carrying him . ’ |
| 15 | And er we did n't always remember where they lived . |
| 16 | It 's a fact that a dog 's senses will deteriorate with age , but because their senses are generally much more acute than ours , we do n't always recognise when one is slowly failing because the other senses adjust so well . |
| 17 | Perhaps he has only met one type of female and does n't realise that a woman can value time alone and is n't forever fretting over her partner 's choice of underwear . |
| 18 | I do n't honestly know why he agreed to do the film , except that all he wanted was a fifteen-minute death scene . |
| 19 | And they were n't out to mug just anyone passing . |
| 20 | Put the phone down we 'll call you back in in just a second because i , we ca n't really make out what you 're saying . |
| 21 | I was hop I had n't , I had n't really made up my mind that 's plenty biscuits Paula , yeah it 's plent do n't get , biscuit mania , Easter eggs , God |
| 22 | I ca n't really answer how I got into it , me , I got three big brothers so , maybe that 's got part to do with it . |
| 23 | and the trouble is of course , they 've , the Methodist have n't really joined up themselves |
| 24 | I did n't hear what he shouted , but I was pretty lucky I was n't run over , cos to tell the truth I was n't really looking where I was going . |
| 25 | I do n't really care why it did n't go well . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't really care how you feel . |
| 27 | I 'm not a Middle-European professor , I do n't really care how it is . |
| 28 | The defence lawyer said O'Donnell ‘ ca n't really explain why he was in the restaurant with a drill . |
| 29 | Yeah it does n't really say how you , how you could achieve the goal I mean it just says you know do n't hurt the middle peasants give the poor peasants land it does n't say , you know , |
| 30 | ‘ I know so much about it , from a working point of view , that is , that I ca n't really envisage how it would feel to be such a complete outsider , and yet privately so necessary to someone . |