Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the mortgage to pay and the electricity bill for the central heating they could n't economise there because of Debbie needing warmth — and the hire-purchase on the bedroom suite to find . |
| 2 | nothing happy , you ju just to stand there , you ca n't laugh properly and you ca n't do this , and you ca n't do this , it 's worse |
| 3 | Napier have said that once they get this course up and running there 's absolutely no reason why experienced people like us ca n't dip in and out for a one off |
| 4 | Do n't plough on until you 've picked up supplies . |
| 5 | Donna did n't slow up as she roared up the slope . |
| 6 | She did n't slow down until she was almost out of breath . |
| 7 | I did n't explain why and took instead a tartan scarf — to be Rob Roy , I said , but actually to conceal my lack of proper neckwear . |
| 8 | The Yorkshire farmers do n't rush out and kiss you , but their careful friendliness and politeness is something which I have valued even more since my service days . |
| 9 | This is because here energy levels are often depleted — either she does n't eat properly or she diets in order to keep slim . ’ |
| 10 | I have friends who worry that I do n't eat well and regularly enough but I suppose it is all a continuation of the habits formed when I was a one-woman farmer . |
| 11 | The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet . |
| 12 | So and they were tempted to eat erm poor stuff which they they would n't eat otherwise because there was the juice of the soaked to it . |
| 13 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |
| 14 | ‘ The way I look at it , ’ Blunt said , ‘ the chap ca n't stay up if his plane wo n't fly . |
| 15 | It does n't stay up when you |
| 16 | My lips are often chapped and sore , which makes it difficult to apply lipstick as it wo n't stay on and looks unpleasant . |
| 17 | I would n't stay here if they offered me half of the Palace . |
| 18 | Would n't stay here if we did n't would we ? |
| 19 | " But I ca n't stay here because he 'll come round . |
| 20 | We ca n't stay here and … ’ |
| 21 | I could n't stay here and not throw you on that bed and take you , again and again and again , until you could n't hide from me any longer ! ’ |
| 22 | Blanche was confined to bed most of the time ; he did n't stay long because she was so weary and there was a nurse who bustled him out . |
| 23 | A 1956 collector 's item — the first polythene road cone , a dud one so long and thin it could n't stay still and a Korean cone found floating in Swanage harbour . |
| 24 | We all know the grave problems in some of our children 's homes but we ca n't run away with the fact that er they 're unique to or the problems do n't exist elsewhere because we all know they do . |
| 25 | Oh , yes , she had recognised the sexual awareness that was the dark other side of Luke 's hostility — and had tried to ignore it , but it was impossible to go on pretending it did n't exist now that the preliminary skirmishing was over and he was referring to it openly . |
| 26 | Okay , now that result holds , right , for all erm for all marginal relationships Okay , so if we are looking at a marginal marginal cost curve , right , we have got that 's our marginal cost , that 's our average cost we , we 're intersecting here when in the case it is a minimum so marginal costs cuts through average costs at its minimum value we are looking at average revenue and marginal revenue average revenue function marginal revenue function This is our total revenue function and the same relationship is embodied there , but , notice that between the average and the average revenue and marginal revenue functions , right , do n't intersect simply because we have got a linear relationship here right , average revenue is always above marginal revenue in this particular case . |
| 27 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 28 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 29 | Do n't eliminate somewhere because it sounds ridiculous or out of the question . |
| 30 | She could n't make out whether he still had his lead on or not . |