Example sentences of "they [vb past] n't [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shame they did n't just lock the band up and throw away the key … |
| 2 | That means they did n't even tell the D-G . |
| 3 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 4 | How much , how much erm by a landlord cos I mean they did n't even attend the conference . |
| 5 | They did n't even like the editorial , which had been written by Packford on half a bottle of Scotch . |
| 6 | They did n't even notice the smashed front lights and the vicious new welt on the Boomerang doorframe when I slinked back to Hire-A-Heap the following day . |
| 7 | Well I mean if , if it was full and they did n't all get the |
| 8 | Even then they did n't actively manufacture the tears . |
| 9 | The people who did seem to be enjoying things ( although they did n't much like the film ) were those who , unlike Jane , were there on their own terms . |
| 10 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 11 | And they knew full well that they did n't really need the three thousand apprentices but those large firms trained no no note my word , for the country 's needs , not the company 's needs ! |
| 12 | Rumours of the civil war had reached the Dwarfs but they did n't really understand the situation . |
| 13 | You know they had n't even matched the same bloody type of car . |
| 14 | Well you says they had n't even washed the curtains ! |