Example sentences of "but they do n't [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He says it 's awful but they do n't yet know the full facts . |
3 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Dewdrops doubtless resemble other dewdrops , but they do n't specifically resemble their own ‘ parent ’ dewdrops . |
6 | ‘ I always think of doctors as plumbers , but they do n't usually see themselves like that . |
7 | The electrons balance the forces of course , but they do n't really contribute to the mass . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | But they do n't really get much out of it I suspect if they do n't . |
10 | ‘ But they do n't really know , ’ said Ivy . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | But they do n't literally try to deform the old physical object into the new one . |
16 | But they do n't often fail to propagate … |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | But they do n't actually produce as many conkers . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | ‘ On paper it would have been perfect , but they did n't exactly hit it off , ’ said the source . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | But they did n't half charge . |
30 | But they did n't really bother . |