Example sentences of "n't [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure you ca n't be keeping her so busy that she ca n't spare me an hour or so . ’ |
| 2 | He still could n't spare him a drop of real hatred , though — Carter was the one . |
| 3 | Because obviously if you had one particular factory on the tideway and another producing an identical product and identical effluent in one of the tributaries , you could n't treat them the same because they 're patently different cases . ’ |
| 4 | probably had n't paid that much , so these peo the ones that lent the money out , in really they er , and they really have suffered just , they probably thought that if we do n't lend them the money somebody else will and get the interest and they 'll grow bigger and much overtake us , you know , to , to take over our business , so er , so the |
| 5 | It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires . |
| 6 | They have n't given me a very large space . |
| 7 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 8 | ‘ But you have n't given me an answer . ’ |
| 9 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |
| 10 | You have n't given me the bits missing from the Mirror . |
| 11 | You have n't given me the bits missing from the Mirror . |
| 12 | I have n't given him a thought for years … ’ |
| 13 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 14 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 15 | No , well let , let no we have n't given him the go ahead yet . |
| 16 | Not because she was scared of snakes , but because she had n't given them a thought . |
| 17 | He had n't given them the satisfaction of firing him there and then ; he 'd shown them the contempt he felt for them … let them suffer ! |
| 18 | And you have n't given yourself a drink . |
| 19 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 20 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 21 | Had n't given her a key , but Lucy supposed that there were limits . |
| 22 | Now Mollie that 's , I have n't given you a large helping but it 's a ginger pudding . |
| 23 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 24 | In this one it was n't quite so er , straightforward in that we , we had n't given you the actual activities to do . |
| 25 | They 'd also like comments from this Parish Council , and it was odd that they have n't given us a sketch to look at . |
| 26 | Ferguson added : ‘ I have no preconception about which particular strikers will go best together , and have n't given it a lot of thought yet . |
| 27 | Dry-eyed , I acquiesced when it finally hit the bag of clothes for ‘ Poor Peggy , she 's you-know-what-again , God help her ’ , and I 'm delighted to say I have n't given it a thought since . |
| 28 | ‘ I may as well confess , I had n't given it a single thought . ’ |
| 29 | They squealed with delight as though they had n't heard it a hundred times before . |
| 30 | I ca n't make myself an exception . |