Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Justice Drake used this power to full in summing up in the Donovan case , warning the jurors that they should not think they had to ‘ fix sums with lots of noughts on the end because it 's fashionable ’ . |
| 2 | The prosecution also claims the men produced false alibis , not realising they had been captured on police video at Streetshome on the day of the alleged raid , the case continues . |
| 3 | They ‘ soldier on ’ , and not infrequently find coping strength and skill which they did not know they had . |
| 4 | When they were not meeting they wrote long letters . |
| 5 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
| 6 | The SSI is concerned that a small number of authorities could not show they had abided by this ruling and would require some further investigation by the SSI and the Audit Commission . |
| 7 | When it would not light they ran off , leaving the injured boy in a shed near a Leeds shopping centre . |
| 8 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 9 | They had not felt they had the right to refuse to participate , and video recordings are very threatening in their very nature , and in Doug Green 's case his Head of Department , Mary Law , was his ‘ friendly critic ’ . |
| 10 | But Commander Roy Penrose , who organised yesterday 's raids , said : ‘ We do not believe they had as much explosives as they claimed . |
| 11 | When that did not work they tried pumping or spraying it on to neighbouring fields , hoping it would filter through the ground by natural causes . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 13 | She had not known they started clear , clear of expression , transparent and mobile . |
| 14 | However , the five who rejected the appeal over the beating of a seven-year-old boy in an English boarding school stressed that that did not mean they condoned corporal punishment in principle . |
| 15 | But this does not mean they caused them to appear . |
| 16 | This ignored , or misunderstood , the regular complaint of employers about the lack of good workmen , which did not mean they required ‘ skilled ’ workers , who were always available ; what they required were efficient workers . |
| 17 | The police can not pretend they did n't know of Jeremy 's disappearance until the 27th . |
| 18 | She would not say they had become friends , just strong acquaintances . |
| 19 | The fact that many of the twenty middle-class women did not say they disliked housework does not rule this explanation out of court . |
| 20 | When the young East Anglian maltsters were not working they played hard , often violently . |
| 21 | We had n't realised they had such rippling pecs and bulging biceps ! |
| 22 | I do n't think they deserved to beat us . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't think they 'd been actually taken from what I can gather . |
| 24 | erm when we 've dug them up I I did n't think they looked like carrots until we had |
| 25 | ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says . |
| 26 | I do n't think they thought I was cut out or suitable for nursing . |
| 27 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 28 | I do n't think they took the job too seriously . |
| 29 | I did n't think they took that many |
| 30 | I do n't think they cared one way or the other . |