Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We certainly felt , from all the staring faces that met us wherever we went , that many of them had n't seen any ‘ foreign friends ’ before . |
| 2 | It seemed highly unlikely that they were the same animals , and the verbal description of them did not fit that of the two rehomed dogs . |
| 3 | And I realized too that often the three of them did not have enough to eat . |
| 4 | Cor they look I told you one of them did n't have much in ! |
| 5 | Quite a lot of them did n't have all that much meat in them , which is not surprising , because they do n't actually have to have all that much meat , which we thought was quite amazing . |
| 6 | One consequence of the rise in private asset ownership among elderly people is that many of them do not suffer any drastic reduction of their ability to consume on retirement : indeed , tax changes in the 1970s that encouraged pension schemes to pay out some of their assets as a lump sum mean that many retirees experience an increase in their consumption propensity in the first few years of retirement . |
| 7 | Lots of them do n't carry any radio at all and even those who do almost certainly would n't be permanently tuned to the distress frequency . ’ |
| 8 | Some of them do n't make much sense . |
| 9 | A lot of them do n't like all that countryside or the things that grow in it . |
| 10 | I think some of them do n't have any feelings for other people . |
| 11 | Some of them do n't have both parents , so we never say ‘ ask your Daddy ’ . |
| 12 | erm most of them have n't heard much from their families , no news at all , for the last six months and it 's been very difficult for us . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah well , my dear , you must remember they 're a long way from home , and many of them have n't had much feminine company for a while . |
| 14 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 15 | Plainly , indexing on the text of a document involves indexing every word , some of which do not convey any subject concepts . |
| 16 | It is most disturbing to realize that many of you do not receive any Further Training and some do not even pay their Membership subscription . |
| 17 | Erm , now you could n't do that with that and that sounds intuitively like the kind of expression that we might have , just because I ca n't think of one does n't mean that |
| 18 | Er if , if there is a sufficient er indication in these words an indication , a pointer as I say , if there 's a transparency in these words which enables us to see through to the truth then our formulation of it does n't matter all that much . |
| 19 | Which of us does not need that grace to give purpose to our lives , one we could not have by inventing meaning ourselves ? |
| 20 | Most of us do not have that sort of time to spare . |
| 21 | Well you see most of us do n't do this . |