Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] they [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some doctors have even put their patients through operations they did n't need . |
| 2 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 3 | If you go to Wembley on Saturday morning you will see women with wide Jari bordered saris with gold embroidery , with necklaces and bangles — all gold — and of course they do n't wear a coat because the full splendour of their clothes must be revealed — on their feet a pair of decorative Chappals — however cold it might be . |
| 4 | And of course they do n't want any snotty-nosed ones , no . |
| 5 | Of course they do n't know whether I 'm married or single , why I 'm buying so much food , or how much money I 've spent on food that week . |
| 6 | After a time the others go off to search for ‘ Smee ’ — but of course they do n't know who they are looking for . |
| 7 | And of course they did n't hire with them . |
| 8 | Fish Sparks , who 's been a bit down in the mouth since we rumbled his story , thought it was terrifically funny to start calling the Indians things like Sitting Bull and Tonto , but of course they did n't understand and anyway the rest of us sort of froze him out . |
| 9 | When Adrian writes ‘ Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! ’ with its exclamation mark of outrage at the end , part of us says ‘ Of course they did n't notice . |
| 10 | Of course they did n't get the portable with this , they rang them up , said where 's my colour portable said I 'll put you on to the manager anyway they had some deal that night that erm to launch this Mini Mayfair or whatever it was wine and cheese thing so he went to the wine and cheese thing and worried he was gon na kick up a fuss so they gave him a telly anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course they did n't say that , ’ said Nigel as if to an elderly sloth suffering from senile decay , ‘ but it 's no good me saying , ‘ Sinister , dexter , sinister , dexter , ’ because they wo n't know what I 'm talking about , will they ? |
| 12 | Against Elves you have to be careful of the fear rule , as Goblins fear units of Elves they do n't outnumber two to one . |
| 13 | the Russian have fucking one of the most powerful forces , I mean up until the Stalingrad in Moscow , the , the battle of Stalingrad they did n't know if they at all . |
| 14 | The Captain 's Cabin is the sort of place they do n't hassle you . |
| 15 | There are plenty of things they do n't tell us about . |
| 16 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 17 | What are these chaps called who go around murdering lots of people they do n't know ? ’ |
| 18 | Picture to yourself a monstrous skip crammed with trivia : singularly ununique childhood memories , 5 billion sports results , faces of people they do n't like , plots of television soap operas , tips concerning how to clean red wine off a carpet , the name of their MP , that sort of thing . |
| 19 | They did n't want to go and kill a lot of people they did n't know . |
| 20 | But no , the kind of subtlety , the rubarto was , you know , that is very , the hallmark of Elgar they did n't like at all . |
| 21 | In the face of Queeensrÿche they did n't stand a chance . |
| 22 | In the face of Queeensrÿche they did n't stand a chance . |
| 23 | That is to say , they know what it would be like for God to exist , but as a matter of fact they do n't think that one does . |
| 24 | of time they do n't do it . |
| 25 | Erm er just made an observation about er experience in hospital with children and apparently when kids have been in hospital for a length of time they do n't object so much when you go along and stick a the |
| 26 | How about what 's the American word for post they do n't say oh we 'll put it in the post they say we 'll put it in the ? |
| 27 | And at that time o' day they did n't get any wages . |
| 28 | There are times when mistakes are made in school and things go wrong : children blamed for things they did n't do , events may be cancelled at short notice , cardigans and coats lost or , even worse , end up in the toilet bowl . |
| 29 | Almost £500,000 is owed to customers who paid for goods they did n't get . |
| 30 | Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends . |