Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] they [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly realised they did n't like each other ; that they were rivals . |
| 2 | As they drove along Three Springs Road , Juliet suddenly realised they did n't know Miss Rose 's address ! |
| 3 | Women suddenly discovered they did n't want to stay at the kitchen sink all day ; they wanted the fulfilment that comes from work , too . |
| 4 | ‘ I only said they did n't give their names . |
| 5 | A 1988 survey by Tony Dickson and others at Glasgow College and Strathclyde University found that IBM employees had no aversion to unions — just felt they did n't need them . |
| 6 | ‘ It was all so quick — the judges just said they did not want to hear any more arguments , convictions quashed and then got up and walked out ! |
| 7 | Harvey checked with the photographer , the forensic expert , who both said they did n't need the body any more . |
| 8 | Deaf mothers often said they did not understand descriptions of the advance of the baby during the second stage of labour and would have liked to see what was happening . |
| 9 | Those who had come to New England to have an opportunity to practice their own approach to religion , and then found they did not agree with the views held by those who were in power , had a more serious problem . |
| 10 | You will almost certainly come up against the person who has ordered something and then decided they do n't want it . |
| 11 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |