Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Libyans did n't do that . ’ |
| 2 | At the same time , the committee believed , some West Indian parents did not do enough to support schools and teachers . |
| 3 | The Conservatives did not do as badly in the South East as elsewhere ( average swing to Labour , 4.7% ) , whereas Labour performed much better in another traditional area of weakness , the South West , with the Conservative vote dropping substantially in Bristol ( -6.7% ) , Exeter ( -8.8% ) , Penwith ( -11.6% ) , and Torbay ( -17.4% ) . |
| 4 | It is that if governments did not do this kind of thing the probability of their interfering in the workings of the market economy would a that much greater . |
| 5 | Oddly enough our pigs did n't do so well at market . |
| 6 | The orderlies did n't do a lot of work but they did do a lot of talking , and their general cheerfulness had a lifting effect on the corridor as a whole . |
| 7 | In fact bottom clubs did n't do too well at all this afternoon , let's look at them ; Hull were at the bottom , they lost , Watford also lost , Portsmouth did n't play , Plymouth lost , Leicester did n't play and Blackburn lost , so of the bottom six teams , not a single side won . |
| 8 | Next thing the cop parade and th they 're for the cop cops did n't do anything . |
| 9 | Sociologists had long been interested in why many working-class pupils did not do as well as middle-class children at school . |
| 10 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 11 | Bingham LJ said that " the plaintiffs did not do what was necessary to draw this unreasonable and extortionate clause " to the defendants ' attention . |
| 12 | Alas the ancients did not do so well at Tilberthwaite as we have seen . |
| 13 | Selfridges did not do too badly , thanks to returning tourists , but a £7m cut in non-shoe retailing profits reflects a shocking period 's trading at Wallis and Horne . |
| 14 | Faces did n't do that . |
| 15 | And they say the whole system would collapse if women did n't do housework . |
| 16 | But other than that I do n't think , women did n't do much I mean even in shops , the men were the shop assistants nearly always . |
| 17 | THE DIVISION OF LABOUR : WHAT WOMEN DID NOT DO |
| 18 | Women did not do that kind of thing , even in cosmopolitan Cairo . |
| 19 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |