Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er anything special you know that sor children growing up and you know fathers not seeing them or wives having babies wh which you know they had n't seen perhaps till they were two years old . |
| 2 | In man not seeing them at . |
| 3 | But we 're not handling them any better . |
| 4 | Blaming myself for not bringing them together . |
| 5 | Okay , we do n't , but we do get them all tangled up by other people taking them away , and not bringing them back , and then we do n't know what we 've got , you know . |
| 6 | I think we tend to eat much faster , if you like , and , and to take more snacks , and I think it 's interesting that the rise of the use of a coffee table ties in a lot with the rise of people having televisions in their front rooms , because introducing the television made all kinds of changes into , just the way people arrange their chairs , not centring them round the fire any more , and a coffee table 's a very neat addition to that kind of arrangement . |
| 7 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 8 | Well the men although they may not have realized they were thirteen must have been pretty stupid not to realize they were perhaps below consent age . |
| 9 | The legal system should be stamping out vigilantes , not encouraging them . |
| 10 | they ca n't actually do this , if they 're going to do it and we 're certainly not encouraging them to do it , but if they 're going to do it then there 's no reason why they could n't do it with adults . |
| 11 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 12 | Just because they have been disowned by Labour has not stopped them hitching their star to its bandwagon . |
| 13 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 14 | They may have nothing to offer , but that has not stopped them holding press conferences or making public statements . |
| 15 | not make them an enormous feature . |
| 16 | She did not think them greater , failed entirely to see why she should . |
| 17 | Hess did not have a normal christening for Wolf Rudiger , the Fuhrer does not think them good enough for Nazis . |
| 18 | The Americans are telling East Europeans that they should not think they can join NATO — that would break the ‘ do n't gloat ’ rule — and they do not mean to imply , either , that NATO 's security perimeter has been extended to the Soviet-Polish border . |
| 19 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 20 | Quite a number of farmers from these areas , although still with 10–15 years active service left , did not think they could benefit from training : for them it was ‘ something for the young folk ’ . |
| 21 | Nutty did not think they would win . |
| 22 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 23 | I do not think they are ; not in the night itself anyhow . |
| 24 | Having sung the praises of swimfeeders I must point out that I do not think they are the be-all and end-all of barbel fishing , specially for the very big ones . |
| 25 | They have slightly relaxed their demands for absolute obedience to the rules and do not think they are demeaning themselves by giving reasons for their ‘ do 's ’ and ‘ don'ts ’ . |
| 26 | He does not think they constitute scientific claims . |
| 27 | ‘ I admit I did not think they would do that . ’ |
| 28 | Other publishers do not think they must follow Reed 's initiative to regain lost ground . |
| 29 | They did not think they were alone in feeling isolated in the business world , but when they sent out invitations to the inaugural meeting on 14 July , with an explanation of what they were trying to achieve , they were staggered by the response . |
| 30 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |