Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 2 | yeah , that 's what I thought and , but if that was n't bad enough , my mum because she knows these things , even said that he does n't even say ho , ho , ho , Green Giant , does n't , they do n't even sing that song when they 're working they could n't sing , and you know the little corn on the cob man |
| 3 | But now they do n't even do that . |
| 4 | In fact the latest development is that they do n't even do that by picking up a telephone , the message is teleprinted on , onto a message pad there , and when they run in they pull off this pad , and there 's the whole text for what they 've got to do , where they 've got to go , and so on . |
| 5 | Bedroom has got a , it 's in an alcove so you 'll have that piece where it 's bottom of the stairs or wherever , I mean , the , stand on slip mats you 're gon na get that because of the , the airing cupboard is part of the hall , part of the bedroom and nothing you can do about that one , and on the wall it 's just gon na be one length of each room , cut off , perfect , , actually they do n't normally do that , they usually just the measurement , cos I not , never understood why they do n't have measurements there all standard , you guarantee use the one strip of another roll |
| 6 | No , yeah they do n't all have that though do they ? |
| 7 | I have n't seen the draft guidelines that came out yesterday for the registration of nursing homes but I understand that they do n't actually address these issues . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't have Thomson and although Airtours have bought Aspro they do n't actually have any travel agents here , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't have Thomson and although Airtours have bought Aspro they do n't actually have any travel agents here , ’ he said . |
| 10 | they do n't often do that |
| 11 | Because you might start from nought or something I mean they do n't often do this but you might start from nought , and then they ask you What is it at minus ten ? |
| 12 | But I mean , a lot of people do n't glorify on the jobs they do , I mean Dinda she said you know , it 's awful being the one who 's getting all the all day long , kind of explained and help them with their problems , sympathise with , with something that does n't work she 'd much rather be outdoors than being a or looking after , but she said you know , it 's , it 's a secure job and these days I think well I 'm not I run my own car and they do n't really think that |
| 13 | Er they do n't really bring that up much , |
| 14 | Well I used to believe that but me mum said they do n't really do that , and that was one of my great illusions completely shattered |
| 15 | They do n't really care enough about industry , and they certainly do n't understand that our timescales are quite different from theirs . |
| 16 | Well it 's very , they are talking about er other issues up to they are talking about the workforce and of the erm the the report from the and er it seems that they do n't really want much to programme forward which I have put for next year very structural maintenance of the and I what the services are actually doing , they have lost council probably say that they are out of control . |
| 17 | They do n't really expect any er any delay erm and they 're expecting to start shipping up here on the Monday . |
| 18 | They do n't really understand that ! |
| 19 | people and telling them all these things about things they do n't really know much about like drugs they take in what |
| 20 | All that helps to explain why businessmen are keen to talk up prospects in official surveys and why they do n't really believe all that they say . |
| 21 | But they do n't really get much out of it I suspect if they do n't . |
| 22 | They do n't always do much for me , Angus , but maybe you 're doing something wrong . |
| 23 | These are not a direct source of constitutional law in the sense that they do not normally involve any change in domestic law ( see , however The Parlement Belge ( H.C. , 1879 ) ) . |
| 24 | They do not however use this data to temper their judgements , with the result that a school may be praised because of the intake characteristics of the pupils rather than because of anything it has done . |
| 25 | The debt to Picasso is immediately obvious ; the large canvas , the scale of the figure itself and the distortions within it , the muted pinks , buffs and greys ( which if they do not closely resemble those of the Demoiselles are surely a response to them ) , the treatment of the background in terms of large angular planes — all these features are new in the work of Braque . |
| 26 | They do not then relay all the information to the passengers , for to do so would serve no useful purpose . |
| 27 | However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas . |
| 28 | Thus performance statistics alone are not very useful for comparing different systems , since they do not necessarily provide any indication of the superiority of one system over another , nor any insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the various components . |
| 29 | But psychological research seems to indicate that they do not necessarily cancel each other out . |
| 30 | Origins are certainly often interesting , but they do not necessarily have much to do with the present functioning and meaning of things . |