Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] 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 | The legal system should be stamping out vigilantes , not encouraging them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | switch off lights when you are not using them |
| 10 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 11 | Notice the hints of Stoicism ; of facing experiences , not shirking them ; of enduring and continuing to the end , six years before the Elegiac Stanzas ( p. 140 ) . |
| 12 | They 'd bought visas from a travel agent , not realising they were forged . |
| 13 | They 'd bought visas from a travel agent in Nepal , not realising they were forged . |
| 14 | The prosecution also claims the men produced false alibis , not realising they had been captured on police video at Streetshome on the day of the alleged raid , the case continues . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the independence of the Tariff Reform League was a positive advantage : after January 1913 the party supported the tariff policy but was not including them in its immediate programme , so that Central Office could continue to distribute tariff propaganda from the TRL without compromising party policy . |
| 16 | Nutty had given them a thorough grounding in the process , and put out the evening feeds ready , not trusting them to get the quantities right . |
| 17 | Drawing such a line , between the dots but not touching them , provides a path to guide the eye and ease its journey . |
| 18 | Government in not allowing them passports until 1985 might have protected the children at a crucial time in their development . |
| 19 | But the essay is usually a closed form , not allowing students to admit to uncertainty in their thinking , not allowing them to explore their ideas in imaginative and open-ended ways . |
| 20 | For government to pursue a regional policy either by offering incentives to industries to move into depressed areas or by not allowing them to expand in the affluent parts of the country is tantamount to impeding economic growth and wasting resources . |
| 21 | The formula ‘ protects ’ the incomes of second families by not allowing them to fall below income support levels plus £8 and 10 per cent of the difference . |
| 22 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 23 | It is a young woman 's role , in her eyes , to play by society 's rules while not allowing them to define her . |
| 24 | writes : MY HOBBY is coarse fishing , where the art is in the catching of the fish , not eating them . |
| 25 | Well I 'm not eating them ! |
| 26 | You 're not eating them now ! |
| 27 | I 'm not eating them every day though . |
| 28 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 29 | When they do , they turn on the person and accuse him or her of being old-fashioned and not accepting them as they are . |
| 30 | And we are not accepting them . ’ |