Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 2 | Lots of them do n't carry any radio at all and even those who do almost certainly would n't be permanently tuned to the distress frequency . ’ |
| 3 | Some of them do n't make much sense . |
| 4 | A lot of them do n't like all that countryside or the things that grow in it . |
| 5 | I think some of them do n't have any feelings for other people . |
| 6 | Some of them do n't have both parents , so we never say ‘ ask your Daddy ’ . |
| 7 | erm most of them have n't heard much from their families , no news at all , for the last six months and it 's been very difficult for us . |
| 8 | ‘ Ah well , my dear , you must remember they 're a long way from home , and many of them have n't had much feminine company for a while . |
| 9 | You 're old enough to know by now that in the country where Great-Granny comes from they do n't eat some of the things we eat . |