Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the ancestors of whales reinvaded the sea , they did not acquire fins by hybridizing with fish . |
| 2 | In the 1980s , among an entire group of paediatric anaesthetists , a substantial fraction believed that newborn children did not feel pain and therefore they did not give analgesics to newborn babies . |
| 3 | On this latter point , however , they did not give details of how this was achieved in schools . |
| 4 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 5 | That is , while they did not start courses at the institutions we studied , they did go on to take a course elsewhere . |
| 6 | Deaf mothers often said they did not understand descriptions of the advance of the baby during the second stage of labour and would have liked to see what was happening . |
| 7 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 8 | Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward . |
| 9 | While these links involved the provision of some common services , they did not constitute chains in exactly the traditional newspaper sense , since the holdings were not in every case large enough to be a controlling interest . |
| 10 | The pupils decided that they were the same in that context and were satisfied that there were only three different shapes if they did not allow fences in the middle or squares just touching at the corners . |
| 11 | Between 1688 and 1714 monarchs had changed their ministers fairly frequently but they did not defy changes in public feeling and were always able to gain a majority in Parliament for the man they chose . |
| 12 | no they did n't wear gloves in those days |
| 13 | And that sort of stuff used to go to America , because in er we had quite a big American market in those days because they did n't wash curtains in America , they used to put them up until they dar until they dropped down and then put new curtains up , you see ? |
| 14 | Perhaps they did n't take things to heart so much . |
| 15 | They did n't get sharks in the Severn did they ? |
| 16 | they were so s the leather was so soft and they did n't put nails in the soles , they put wooden pegs . |
| 17 | And then you can put over here office blocks , flats , they did n't have flats pre sixties not till thought of it . |
| 18 | The others looked at me oddly ; they did n't have bulimics in their group — that was a different matter . |
| 19 | unclear get to buy your own I , I er did n't have rubber boots , I had big leather boots up to me thigh , that 's what I bought and that leather then they did n't have nails in the shoes in the , in the bottom they had wooden pegs , so that the , your leather was held by wooden pegs and the and the leather at that time were the thigh boots , you could roll them right the way down , . |
| 20 | ( 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 ! ) . |
| 21 | Well they did n't have trucks for excursions , they did n't take any sheep and cattle to the seaside for a day . |
| 22 | ( So was former Sunderland star George Herd , but they did n't have substitutes in those days ) . |
| 23 | The gates , they only had a single er they did n't have gates on either side here , they just got the one set of gates . |
| 24 | alright if it does n't rain actually so it would n't matter if they did n't have treads on er treads on the tyres if it 's dry it does n't really matter you just go round slicks and |
| 25 | you know , so they do n't make paths for horses who jump over . |
| 26 | They do n't make shelters for cabbies like this any more . |
| 27 | They do n't make demands on us , do they ? ’ |
| 28 | They do n't make films like his anymore — more 's the pity . |
| 29 | you could of seriously because they want , they do n't want models like that erm |
| 30 | No do n't be silly they just want vocabulary , they do n't want things like that , they want to know a person 's vocabulary a to cer you know , at a certain age . |