Example sentences of "n't [verb] their [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of the staff did n't want their faces on TV or names mentioned , which was understandable . |
| 2 | These men tend to be more confident that they can make their desires known to their partners , whereas those who did n't enjoy their introduction to sex are among the most likely to say that they ca n't express what they want . |
| 3 | T. D. The discipline was tyranny but it was n't bad for us — two policemen walking along the road together , talking about women or football like everybody else , and they ca n't keep their eyes for crime or for offences being committed under their noses . |
| 4 | He would spend all his time with well-to-do society people , though he had n't got their sort of money . |
| 5 | Or the couple who are suing because they could n't sell their house on account of the plutonium in the vacuum-cleaner dust ? |
| 6 | Similarly , before reading Lakoff and Freeman , most readers , myself included , could n't tell their inventory of image schemas from their elbows . |
| 7 | Management accounts are easily accessed , and allow criteria selection to make listing aged debtors ( a sadly increasing race of accounts departments that do n't pay their bills on time ) and so forth very easy . |
| 8 | we wo n't save their version in case we wreck it , will we ? |
| 9 | That may be the norm , but , of course , there is also the abnorm when things go wrong , when the fire gets out of control , when , perhaps , the fire brigade has been over worked , or could n't find their way for cigarette smoke , or for all that saturated fat that clogged up the wheels of their tenders . |