Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 2 | Do n't fool yourself into believing that it is politics , ’ he wrote . |
| 3 | Tonight , here , now , we ca n't hurt anyone by making love . ’ |
| 4 | Did n't think nothing about leaving then ; got ‘ climatized , I suppose . |
| 5 | And he 's got all , do n't think nothing of getting to any trouble with it , you know . |
| 6 | Not urgent , so I did n't think it worth waking you for it . ’ |
| 7 | She does n't hector us about giving up things . |
| 8 | We do n't accomplish anything by placing blame . |
| 9 | You ca n't win it by changing the parameters er if you do change the parameters of course then you 'll be fighting a different war and your objectives then become different . |
| 10 | ‘ You can take them off the instant you do n't need them for reading . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Hey , ’ Ellie called after her weakly , ‘ I do n't know anything about serving on stalls … ’ and then let her hand drop limply to her side . |
| 12 | my supervisor does n't know anything about writing an outline . |
| 13 | Both books are highly recommended by myself because even if you do n't know anything about sailing you will hopefully share the feelings of the crew due to the writing skill of both authors . |
| 14 | But I do n't know anything about selling things , only before I could tell that to the woman who owns the stall she 'd rushed off to follow someone called Harry — who 's not getting away with it , ’ she tacked on comically . |
| 15 | It was true she did n't know anything about waiting on tables . |
| 16 | She did n't know anything about falling in love , let alone falling in love on a budget , as Nelson put it . |
| 17 | The sun may not shine that much on Britain but that does n't exclude us from using solar power . |
| 18 | ‘ You wo n't do it without killing him , Jacques . |
| 19 | Besides , I want to protect the remains of my privacy ; I do n't want to appear cold-hearted or stubborn ; but I know that when I try to make my life give me its answers to how I have come to my current concerns , I ca n't do it without feeling that I am on the edge of a dangerous fiction of self-description . |
| 20 | But I did n't do it with dieting — it 's just that as you get older , and I 'm 62 now , you do n't need as much food . |
| 21 | It 's in my name — so for pity 's sake , do n't disgrace me by messing around with any of the masseuses . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So you ca n't accuse me of hiding anything . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You did n't accuse me of having an affair with him then , so why now ? ’ |
| 24 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 25 | It was too late , I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking Mr Broadhurst 's unusual caduceus , the one he had made out of an old TV aerial garnished with flex , and I could n't prevent myself from reading on : |
| 26 | We got on very well together and when after only two months with the company my immediate boss — the marketing manager , a sallow individual with a Solihull whine — suffered a perforated ulcer ( I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking this , the wall of his duodenum like a rusty car door , sharp flakes of oxidised tissue spearing into him ) , I got his job . |
| 27 | A short time later he could n't prevent himself from asking whether she did n't love him just a little . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He underwent a minor operation on his elbow during the summer , but that did n't prevent him from fulfilling a fitness programme with the new season in mind . |
| 30 | It did n't prevent him from running a successful office , despite the lack of support from some staff ’ . |