Example sentences of "[vb past] that they [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( aside ; a ‘ little lad ’ of 18 ) once studies HAMLET in the course of A level lit. and realised that they did n't have pencils in those days — he remains confused ! ) . |
| 2 | ‘ She talked about ‘ Debbie 's flat ’ not ‘ our flat ’ so I assumed that they do n't live together . |
| 3 | The Board of Guardians replied that they did n't have any isolation hospital and were unable to accept liability . |
| 4 | " There 's that Gedge boy wants you , " Mrs Blakey said in a puzzled way on each occasion , and on each occasion they replied that they did n't wish to see him . |
| 5 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 6 | Because we decided that they did n't have a , a strong enough military base er w w w what erm gave the peasants the incentive to , to join ? |
| 7 | Yes , casual work and when some of these casuals felt that they did n't want to stop there two days , they used to tell the authorities that they had got promise of work at , at Yarmouth and and could we go soon , you see . |
| 8 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |
| 9 | And they insisted that they did n't want more drink simply because they 'd been drinking but because they just , well , wanted it . |
| 10 | And then I said that they do n't hang about with us enough . |
| 11 | Terry and Tom said that they did n't want any food and when they asked Brian , he refused to answer . |
| 12 | He then said that they did n't want an understanding with the United States , because they know that this was impossible ( sic ) . |
| 13 | Well we were disappointed in the Good Report because er they did say it was one of the major issues , and yet they said that they did n't think any sweep in changes are needed which rather erm contradicted the earlier part of our report , we would have thought there were erm changes needed . |
| 14 | They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home . |
| 15 | But they also explained that they did n't know about the future . |