Example sentences of "they [vb past] n't [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They called the shots while we were still tiny , and they did n't spring into crushed velvet bell-bottoms in 1966 , just because it was a happening thing to do . |
| 2 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 3 | And then they did n't shift at all see . |
| 4 | Bangor had to abandon caution to rescue the match but they did n't reckon on another Eachus blunder putting it beyond their reach . |
| 5 | Bangor had to abandon caution to rescue the match but they did n't reckon on another Eachus blunder putting it beyond their reach . |
| 6 | They did n't speak to each other , or to her . |
| 7 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
| 8 | I mean they did n't pay for that it cost us more money . |
| 9 | She was surprised to notice that they did n't make for either of London 's airports ; rather they seemed to be flying west into the rapidly darkening sky . |
| 10 | They did n't comment on any of it . |
| 11 | No , they did n't because they did n't finish till half five they did n't get here till I got soaked yesterday morning ! |
| 12 | They did n't win in 1970 , but they put that right with a vengeance in 1971 . |
| 13 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 14 | We try to keep aberrations like that to an absolute minimum — we 'd rather they did n't happen at all , obviously , but every so often the gremlins creep in . |
| 15 | At the time I took it too far and probably they did n't agree with that , ’ he says . |
| 16 | They did n't mix in those days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | No reasons were given as to the lack of information the social workers had gathered about the children ; why they did n't know about one child 's asthma , another 's forthcoming dental treatment , or that Jewish children might have special dietary requirements . |
| 20 | One of the surgeons who reported the case , aptly named KC Saw , said they did n't know of any similar cases but the holes in the metal ring with their inward-turning rims were a perfect trap for a child 's fingers . |
| 21 | Adam did n't want his sister , they did n't get on all that well . |
| 22 | They did n't mind at all that you were n't a boy . ’ |
| 23 | They did n't look at all impressive last week when losing 4-2 to Edinburgh Civil Service in a friendly . |
| 24 | ‘ They did n't look like that when I was at college . |
| 25 | I had seen " choking " horses — the dry choke when the gullet becomes impacted with food but they did n't look like this . |
| 26 | She spent money they did n't have on green leafage and bought a large , real tree in Blesford market place . |
| 27 | But no , the kind of subtlety , the rubarto was , you know , that is very , the hallmark of Elgar they did n't like at all . |
| 28 | They did n't ask for any money , they just wanted a good royalty and help with promotion . |
| 29 | They did n't seem to injured and could be back for the Leeds match . |
| 30 | They 'd built estates after the war with no amenities at all and they did n't learn from that either . |