Example sentences of "[verb] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father vould n't really vant him to go for all the summer . ’ |
| 2 | Even if there iss n't a litter basket where you are , ’ she pointed out , ‘ you can always put paper and things in your pocket until you get to one . |
| 3 | ‘ 'Would n't go on my own , would I ? ’ |
| 4 | People-do n't interfere . |
| 5 | Kapuscinski generalises : ‘ the degree of consciousness that drives one to demand justice or do something about obtaining it has n't yet been reached . ’ |
| 6 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 7 | But that has n't happened to our European competitors , who have more bank holidays than the British . |
| 8 | ‘ She has n't got any extensions as far as I can see , ’ I said . |
| 9 | She has n't anywhere else to go but . |
| 10 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 11 | Happily , there has n't been any problem with the pernicious perennial weeds I find elsewhere in the garden , such as the deep-rooting bindweed and ground elder . |
| 12 | If your bike is second-hand , or has n't been used for a while , then it 's important to check that it 's safe to ride . |
| 13 | She has n't a clue and asks me out for a drink . |
| 14 | And much much much much rather feed you brandy with my mouth which has n't done so much smiling since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and did n't know just how much fun this life could be . |
| 15 | Get some more wine , Dionne , this bottle has n't touched me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Your skin has n't a single blemish , ’ he said . |
| 17 | He has n't worn too well , to be honest . |
| 18 | And we ca n't light a fire , the chimney has n't been swept . ’ |
| 19 | He has n't talked to me since , but Violet tells me she has explained to him that ‘ some people are funny about dogs ’ . |
| 20 | I think I am the only one who has n't had to pay any fines for not missing a tournament . |
| 21 | I hear Steffi has n't got media coverage there … yet ! |
| 22 | He has n't played a Becker yet … ’ |
| 23 | He smiles a lot , talks to himself and uses a tennis court like an officer patrolling it , owning it and thumping around it as if he has n't a care in the world . |
| 24 | Seems reasonable , except for the fact that he has n't cut the mortises for the mullions . |
| 25 | I then wonder why some enterprising manufacturer has n't made a cheap engineer 's lathe as an alternative to the old-fashioned wood lathe . |
| 26 | There 'll always be someone around at the places described here and the grumpiness that seems to infect so many British crags these days has n't spread here yet . |
| 27 | He has n't got the underground man 's bodiless analytic clarity . |
| 28 | He commends him for the wit and wisdom of things he has n't said . |
| 29 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |
| 30 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |