Example sentences of "they [vb past] not [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not believe in any form of resurrection . |
| 2 | They did not believe in any form of resurrection yet they asked a question concerning this topic . |
| 3 | But they did not get in each other 's way : more than twenty miles of water lay between them and they drew their vigour and their sustenance from different parts of England . |
| 4 | They did n't win in 1970 , but they put that right with a vengeance in 1971 . |
| 5 | They did n't mix in those days . |
| 6 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 7 | ‘ They are responsible for a lot of the machine tools that we have now , ’ Gerwyn says , ‘ and they developed them because they did n't believe in wasted labour . |
| 8 | Justice Department and CIA officials had made mistakes in how they had handled certain classified information concerning BNL loans , a series of errors which Lacey characterized as " a fiasco " , but they had not engaged in any criminal wrongdoing . |
| 9 | For example in the case of the airline employees the revenue had sought to tax concessionary travel on the average cost basis but their claim had failed before the commissioners and they had not persisted in that claim . |