Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say that the English can not stay with their child or friend or family in the hospital . |
| 2 | As already stated , the defendant 's real defence was one of accident , but that did not dispense with the need for the judge to leave the issue of provocation to the jury if there was any evidence to justify that course ; and the defendant contended that the judge was wrong to have directed the jury that provocation did not arise for their consideration . |
| 3 | Evidently such individuals can be said to exist , despite the fact that they lack the independence of ordinary things — they can not exist on their own . |
| 4 | The Governor Support Unit , Lord Mayor , did not exist under their structure . |
| 5 | The Teleuts began to become dependent on Russian metalware but the Russians were unable to use this as a bargaining tool , since the Teleuts knew that the troops could not exist without their trade goods . |
| 6 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 7 | He could not think of their fate . |
| 8 | Yet even in cuisine , from which the metaphor of ‘ taste ’ comes , people who take food seriously do not think of their preferences as relativistic in this sense . |
| 9 | Around 600,000 members of the former building society have still not registered for their entitlement of free shares . |
| 10 | The fact that our conceptual scheme is inseparable from the idea of such particulars , he might argue , does not testify to their existence per se . |
| 11 | They were clean creatures which did not excrete during their lifetime . |
| 12 | Although it has changed its name to the Cirque Invisible with most of its material new , its format remains much the same as before , created by the husband and wife team of Jean Baptiste Thierree and Victoria Chaplin ( daughter of Oonagh ) but not joined by their lithe acrobat son , James Spencer Thierree . |
| 13 | It is for broadcasting authorities to determine what constitutes the appropriate degree of impartiality , and they must not lose sight of their obligation not to include in their programmes matter which is likely to encourage or incite crime or be offensive to public feeling . |
| 14 | It is vitally important that the integrity of solicitors is not jeopardised by their drive for new markets to compensate for the possible loss of conveyancing . ’ |
| 15 | Even if the adults do not try to talk the child out of it , they may not persist with their request . |
| 16 | One day he reported that the defence had claimed that partisan warfare was contrary to the Hague Convention , that the Germans therefore had every right to take reprisals against the partisans , and that any excesses on their part were explained if not justified by their horror of what the partisans did . |
| 17 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 18 | Even though insects did not answer to their names , they had to have them ; otherwise nobody knew what anybody else was talking about . |
| 19 | While ethologists , like Zillmann , do not necessarily agree with the views of the innate aggressionists , their voices are not heard outside their own circle . |
| 20 | Women left behind by the emigrants , ‘ widows ’ who had not heard from their husbands for decades , daughters growing up without fathers , without grandfathers , without brothers -once they too were old enough to leave — were hungry for men , everyone knew that , and the law made its profits from the devils — Greed and Lust and Envy — that scampered among humans playing a deadly tag in which all the players are caught and brought down , one by one . |
| 21 | Amanda Lavelle , a urology ward sister at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , London , sees many patients with prostatic cancer : ‘ Men tend not to go to their GP when they first have urinary symptoms , because they think it is a normal part of aging . |
| 22 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 23 | How they used to ask him not to go to their posh prep school , but to meet them in the town . |
| 24 | In part this is due to a desire to avoid a rigidly causal account which will straitjacket capitalist societies into a single position , not allowing for their diversity and variation . |
| 25 | The saving throws for troops is not given on their profile because this is variable depending on the armour they wear . |
| 26 | The saving throws for troops is not given on their profile because it can vary depending on the armour they wear . |
| 27 | Troops ' saving throws are not given on their profile because they vary depending on what armour is being worn . |
| 28 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 29 | We feel we can not comment on their allegations until we have seen it too , ’ Roy Batchelor , Rugby 's spokesman said . |
| 30 | Sotheby 's would not comment on their approach to Mr Bond yesterday . |