Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the old bookmakers pitches could not stay where they were and had to be moved . |
| 2 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 3 | Priority has been given to the juristic sources so far , since the concern here is with interpretation , and documents clearly do not attest how they were themselves interpreted . |
| 4 | They may not recognise when they are in danger , for example when crossing a busy road , or they may not know how to carry out even the most basic safety precautions necessary for the prevention of fire , accidents and infection . |
| 5 | When the other person is an unknown commodity and we can not predict how they will react , the greater is our requirement for the armour of indirectness . |
| 6 | Zen obediently rose and followed , wondering as a dog perhaps does at his stupidity in not understanding why they were going that way , where their enemies lay in wait . |
| 7 | Chodorow and Bem , for example , note their middle-class biases , but do not explore how they affect their concepts of family socialization . |
| 8 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 9 | The mothers were asked to avoid cow 's milk , and were then challenged with it in a disguised form , so that they would not know when they were drinking milk and when they were drinking the ‘ control ’ substance . |
| 10 | The problem can more easily arise for young academics , who are close in age to their students and do not know when they are crossing an invisible line . |
| 11 | If you do not know they are there , or if you do not know where they are , you will miss them . |
| 12 | I do not know where they get these dogs . |
| 13 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 14 | He did not know where they were heading , but already it was clear the destination would not be of his choosing . |
| 15 | What the three thousand four hundred are saying is that the County Council and British Coal do not know where they 're going with this thing , the full implications of it have either not been properly assessed or indeed not been released to the to the local communities . |
| 16 | Who can be surprised that ordinary people do not know where they stand ? |
| 17 | The vice of uncertainty in relation to the duration of a term is that the parties do not know where they stand . |
| 18 | I do not know how they communicate with each other , but their organisation is formidable . |
| 19 | The use of index numbers and special ratios should always be undertaken with care since they may contain hidden dangers if one does not know how they are compiled and , very often , how they are ‘ corrected ’ for a variety of reasons . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the writing remains as something separate from the experience and if teachers do not know how they can usefully respond to the writing as a text , then their part in helping children improve their writing is insignificant . |
| 21 | but in the country er public transport is essential but er access to a car is ess is really essential and for those who ca n't afford it I do not know how they survive in the country . |
| 22 | He did not know how they would have known his household routines . |
| 23 | To begin with , they left it too late — but , measuring the distance from Shiel Bridge way below and behind me , and judging the terrain , even though this modern road has been impressively built , I do not know how they might have bettered their arrangements . |
| 24 | We do not know how they were elected ; but in practice it can hardly have been more than a co-optation . |
| 25 | No , I am not astonished because , two years after announcing its local government plans , the Labour party still does not know how they would work . |
| 26 | I do not know how they are made up . |
| 27 | People sometimes say they bear no malice but I do not know how they can say that . |
| 28 | and er , I I saw Chris quite a lot , then , but I mean , they 're not living how they used to do , I mean , they they were always boozing and that , |
| 29 | People will wonder if it is their fault that the person who died in the road traffic accident perhaps was not looking where they were going because of being preoccupied with what was happening just before they left home . |
| 30 | People pushed past them , not looking where they were going , elbowing , crushing . |