Example sentences of "of they [verb] [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | We certainly felt , from all the staring faces that met us wherever we went , that many of them had n't seen any ‘ foreign friends ’ before . |
2 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
3 | And I realized too that often the three of them did not have enough to eat . |
4 | Cor they look I told you one of them did n't have much in ! |
5 | Quite a lot of them did n't have all that much meat in them , which is not surprising , because they do n't actually have to have all that much meat , which we thought was quite amazing . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . ’ |
8 | Some of them do n't make much sense . |
9 | A lot of them do n't like all that countryside or the things that grow in it . |
10 | I think some of them do n't have any feelings for other people . |
11 | Some of them do n't have both parents , so we never say ‘ ask your Daddy ’ . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | ‘ 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 . |