Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary did n't get hit , but she is adamant that her father threw the tray of cups and saucers to the floor and they did n't just fall . |
| 2 | And they did n't even switch off Max Bygraves when he sung about the need for hands . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 5 | The port they did n't supply you with anything , my father was captain of the dredger Dredging Plant and they did n't even supply him with a hat . |
| 6 | Now that okay no problems there , second and third but look at this , he gave the first second and third and they did n't even have a handicap . |
| 7 | And they did n't really decide on what the message was going to be , erm , they just decided to start checking lines , getting words out on what the charity was going to be , they split that up quite well . |
| 8 | And they did n't really want them back at that time . |
| 9 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 10 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 11 | Well I mean if , if it was full and they did n't all get the |
| 12 | You know if everyone around and they did n't actually have their own children . |
| 13 | They went home in the evening … and they did n't necessarily wash when they went home either . |
| 14 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |
| 15 | And er they said they wanted a nurse , this child had been very sick and they did n't quite know what was wrong with him . |
| 16 | They recognized that a return to the Carolingian situation , in which , in theory at least , all free men were bound by oaths of loyalty to the crown , was an unrealistic aspiration ; and they did not even succeed in asserting their lordship over all French rear-vassals , on the lines suggested by Suger . |
| 17 | The Czechs were , like the Muscovites before them , primarily linguists , and they did not significantly alter the basic groundwork of Formalist literary theory as it had been developed by the late 1920s . |
| 18 | This is a further reason for considering such skills an essential part of the staff nurses ' role rather than as an added extra to be fitted in whenever possible : today 's staff nurses are the ward sisters of tomorrow , and they do not simply pick up teaching skills automatically when they are given a new job title . |
| 19 | Before and after , within a phenomenological time , separate experiences , not ontological objects , and they do not even separate experiences by number alone . |
| 20 | Creative people are often not business minded , and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection , let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre . |
| 21 | She sits and watches , and they do not even realize that she has provoked them to it . |
| 22 | They accuse as witches those whom they hate and fear , and they do not readily accept substitutes . |
| 23 | Many projects for young people : are still in the planning or experimental stage and they do not always succeed immediately , as can be seen . |
| 24 | Many decisions about how to display the data have to be standardized within a package , and they do not always lead to sensible or pretty results . |
| 25 | Briefly , the available evidence shows that the benefit they confer on the various socio-economic groups changes according to government policies and they do not always give greater benefits to those living in council accommodation , as is often assumed . |
| 26 | Children start off as self-centred little beings and they do not naturally think of the other person . |
| 27 | and they do n't normally give to anywhere , because nobody ever asks . |
| 28 | It 's run by a private charity and they do n't normally accept referrals from outsiders but they did n't want to be too dogmatic about that . ’ |
| 29 | I suggest that the floppy funhouse groove of ‘ Oblong ’ — from the trio 's new ‘ Top Up ’ EP — is strongly reminiscent of Happy Mondays , and they do n't immediately nut me . |
| 30 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |