Example sentences of "but they [verb] n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In interview , the head of science offered these illuminating insights into the way the library project had stimulated book awareness and book selection among staff in his department : A lot of the time teachers did n't know what was available and said " The science shelf is over there " , but they had n't actually looked at the titles of the books before … they were quite pleasantly surprised . |
| 2 | She and her husband have only recently moved into their marital home and their first child is due at Christmas , but they do n't even know where they 'll be living this time next week . |
| 3 | He says it 's awful but they do n't yet know the full facts . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 5 | But they do n't just flower for the fortnight you spent in Sarajevo : English roses fill the air with fragrance for month after month . |
| 6 | Dewdrops doubtless resemble other dewdrops , but they do n't specifically resemble their own ‘ parent ’ dewdrops . |
| 7 | ‘ I always think of doctors as plumbers , but they do n't usually see themselves like that . |
| 8 | The electrons balance the forces of course , but they do n't really contribute to the mass . |
| 9 | It means they 're going to treat you like a grown-up , but they do n't really think you are and anyhow they 're jealous of you . |
| 10 | But they do n't really get much out of it I suspect if they do n't . |
| 11 | ‘ But they do n't really know , ’ said Ivy . |
| 12 | Ten of that eleven people in the last two weeks , sort of , complaining about but they do n't always let me know so that I can document it , that 's the problem . |
| 13 | Expanded metal arch kits , once they have been plastered over , present a smooth wall face , and can be wallpapered around fairly easily , but they do n't quite have the character of the moulded fibrous plaster . |
| 14 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |
| 15 | And when I go to Wales for a holiday and there are Welshmen , they 're just as good as I am , some can sing so much nicer , and I 've worked with Scotsmen in engineering factories , and there 's no better engineers than Scotsmen , but they do n't necessarily call them British . |
| 16 | But they do n't literally try to deform the old physical object into the new one . |
| 17 | But they do n't often fail to propagate … |
| 18 | Lots of people are fed up with the way their lives are headed but they do n't often take the trouble to do anything about it . |
| 19 | Nowadays The Hitman And Her is filmed ’ as live ’ , which means there 's all the panic and concentration of a live show , but they do n't actually broadcast it until the following week , as a safeguard against major disasters . |
| 20 | But they do n't actually scoop it out off from the blast furnace , they drill a hole in the side where they 've plugged it with a lump of clay . |
| 21 | Er , well , erm , they could sort of do it , erm , I mean , when I leave er , a place that , house that I used to live in , I leave a forwarding address but no , I make sure , with the people that erm , take over the house , but they do n't actually give out my phone number . |
| 22 | But they do n't actually produce as many conkers . |
| 23 | I work in erm family conciliation and lots of parents actually manage to stay parents and to be good parents to their children , but they do n't actually live together as parents . |
| 24 | Right , not very complicated , mum , dad , right mum and dad have got a normal gene and a P K U gene , right , normal gene and P K U gene which means that they are carriers , they carry the disease but they do n't actually have it |
| 25 | I mean increasingly we see that we 're , we get more constables here more constables there , but they do n't ever appear to be actually out on the streets , and until we can get more men on the streets with the deterrent effect that their appearance has , let alone anything else , we are not gon na get much further . |
| 26 | and are , are employing and paying people to work them but they do n't ever seem to come to any let's say reportable conclusion about the cost of operations . |
| 27 | Now when those people in Parliament are absent , by their silence , they may be there , you do n't always see 'em , you then get a bit annoyed , but I tell you , you get bloody annoyed when they walk past you , which happened to me and to the regional delegates at Lancashire North West Labour Party , I wo n't name who they are , but they did n't even acknowledge us . |
| 28 | ‘ On paper it would have been perfect , but they did n't exactly hit it off , ’ said the source . |
| 29 | She thought the girls would regard anyone who wanted to relive her childhood as wringingly wet , but they did n't openly sneer — just went back to whatever they 'd been doing while Constance and Camille walked away to appreciate the fine lines and charming dispositions of twenty greyhounds . |
| 30 | But they did n't half charge . |