Example sentences of "n't be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please , do n't be mean to her on my behalf . |
| 2 | It should n't affect most of them , because manufacturers tend to use disks made in the US , which wo n't be subject to duty , and the EC ’ . |
| 3 | Being intelligent , we hope we wo n't be cruel to animals , but you ca n't say that we are , animals are just as important as humans . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't be cruel to him if he was n't here , could I ? ’ said Lydia reasonably , but she was beginning to regain her temper . |
| 5 | In the first chapter of his autobiography , we have an interesting record of this struggle , which he wrote down in English words but in Greek characters , in order that his thoughts erm should n't be accessible to his family . |
| 6 | Which would n't be easy to Though Remember y it it 's three Os and two Ms because it 's Om Om . |
| 7 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 8 | I should n't be grateful to the war , ’ she said softly , cheeks flushing pink , ‘ but I am . |
| 9 | I was n't nice to him , I do n't want to be nice to him , I sha n't be nice to him . |
| 10 | It proves perhaps that a tree need n't be tall to be proud . |
| 11 | There will be very few privacies in this family which wo n't be relevant to your investigation , Commander . ’ |
| 12 | But she felt she could n't stay and drink tea and then just go off , it would n't be right to be slaking her thirst and sitting here chatting with her mother lying ill wondering what had happened . |
| 13 | So that that consideration would be waived in the balance and clearly erm it would n't be right to those sort of developments . |
| 14 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Spartak wo n't be used to a stadium where the crowd is close to the pitch because in Russia they tend to have wide open stadiums with running tracks . ’ |
| 16 | He wo n't be used to looking after himself . |
| 17 | ‘ They would n't be available to servants . |
| 18 | Do n't be polite to me , right ? |
| 19 | Its sense may be seen as an abstract representation of permission ( " give your assent to a party " ) or even of not preventing ( " do n't be indifferent to " ) . |
| 20 | But players ' agent Leigh Steinberg counters : ‘ You would n't be numb to it if you got the tearful phone calls I get on Sunday nights and Monday mornings . |
| 21 | It wo n't be open to the general public . |
| 22 | And there is a little wrinkle there as well , and th if , if they , if your parents are allowed to live there rent free , even though you own the house , you wo n't be liable to capital gains on disposal , er if they , if they actually pass the ownership of the house to you while they 're alive , and then you continue to let them live rent free , as I understand it , you w there would be no capital gains liability on disposal . |
| 23 | ‘ But I ca n't be true to the old evil in me , and be false to — whatever may be potentially good in me now ! ’ he cried . |
| 24 | While the DUC itself had amassed information and expertise by now to undertake this study itself , it realized that the report would have to be produced from outside the community if it was to have legitimacy or to be seen in any way as neutral : ‘ We in the Committee felt that we knew enough to write the report ourselves but we also felt that it would n't be acceptable to the County Council so we had to get somebody else to do it ’ . |
| 25 | A hi-jacking of that magnitude would n't be likely to be quickly forgotten by the police in whose district it had occurred . |
| 26 | But I promise I wo n't be bad to you again . |
| 27 | Bores wanted to narcotize you so you would n't be sensitive to them . |
| 28 | But observations need n't be direct to be good . |
| 29 | I could phone the parents from there , use the Frys as buffer — Mum and Dad could n't be rude to me in front of them . |
| 30 | They could n't be rude to me in front of a stranger . ’ |