Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they [vb mod] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |
| 2 | Happens , but they do try and go for bigger takings , I mean they 'll not break into my house it wo n't be worth all that worth . |
| 3 | Were my friends in Cambridge to see the change in me I vow they would not believe it . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not think identity cards would have changed things — I suspect they would not have deterred people from travelling without tickets . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose they would not deny that they represent not Utopia but Original Sin , and the imperfect state of man . |
| 6 | put the contrary view in the form of a dilemma when he said : ‘ Either they were performing this public duty in giving the protection asked for , in which case I think they can not charge , or , which no one suggests , they were at the request of an individual doing something which it was not their duty to do , in which case it seems to me both public policy and section 10 of the County Police Act 1839 , make the contract illegal and void . ’ |
| 7 | I find they resemble grit and taste the same — even the health store from which I bought them could not enlighten me . |
| 8 | And I says oh God no I could n't sit between , she says I swear they 'll not know you 're doing it . |
| 9 | ’ You mean they might not get us to Fraxilly ’ . |
| 10 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 11 | She was ‘ extremely upset ’ and shouted that she knew they would not believe her and left the workshop . |
| 12 | Sally knew her mother had trouble making ends meet on the nine pounds ten shillings a week that her father brought home from his job as an electrician 's mate and she did n't have the heart to plead for luxuries she knew they could not afford as Paula did . |
| 13 | If you call they may not have the cash in the house . |
| 14 | she said they 'll not know you 're doing it , I swear |
| 15 | Some accountants are reluctant to take unpaid leave because they fear they will not have a job to come back to if , as seems to many likely , there is another wave of redundancies . |
| 16 | Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse . |
| 17 | One highly-paid aid official admitted : ‘ We are forcing poor people at gunpoint to grow a crop which they know they can not survive on . |
| 18 | They believe they would not have achieved so much had they tried to score points by claiming victory every time an amendment was made or a change was accepted . |
| 19 | England are at present near the top of the rugby world , but if they feel they can not keep finding a world-beating XV from 24 of 26 clubs in their top two leagues , my heart bleeds for them . |
| 20 | Career women , especially those who are more successful than their partners , are sometimes weary because they feel they can not escape from competitiveness and aggression . |
| 21 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 22 | I would say conditions were a wee bit easier a wee bit you had a wee bit more freedom because they knew they could not replace anybody if they gave the sack . |
| 23 | They also promised to use their friends in the Salvation Army as supports at times when they thought they could not cope by themselves . |
| 24 | Only two weeks ago they complained they could not afford to fund the teachers ’ pay award . ’ |
| 25 | They said they would not let my back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat . |
| 26 | ‘ They said they would not allow him to come otherwise so here I am , ’ says Marci . |
| 27 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 28 | Here they are totally secure , for though the orcs can splash across the Nimrodel — ‘ curse their foul feet in its clean water ! ’ says Haldir — it seems they can not wade or swim the Silverlode . |
| 29 | It seems they could not find anyone else to answer the call , so they came to us . ’ |
| 30 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |