Example sentences of "[noun] they did [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 2 | Trade unions began , if slowly and unadventurously , to assert that they did n't give a hoot : their members were not going to run risks they did n't like . |
| 3 | Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like . |
| 4 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 5 | It was so small if you did n't pay the rent they did n't evict you — they used to flush you out with ferrets . |
| 6 | She waited , but without much hope , for Rupert to offer to run her home in the car they did not know he possessed . |
| 7 | In each country , a random sample of the electorate were questioned about their attitudes towards the political process — their perceived ability to affect political change , their participation in various political activities , their attitude towards parties they did not support and so on . |
| 8 | My Cousin Vinny Even Joe Pesci 's considerable talents ca n't quite lift this mildly diverting comedy about two New York kids accused of a murder they did n't commit . |
| 9 | From the king 's point of view these schemes had many attractive features , but in practice they did not work . |
| 10 | Our John and Molly they did n't go so that were eight . |
| 11 | It 's a wonder they did n't get er suffocated some of the kids then in them days . |
| 12 | No wonder they did n't need lights , the alarm system was warning enough . |
| 13 | The fastenings for the steel bits would need to be on the gun deck , and it was on the gun deck they had some of the electronic equipment they did not want the Chilean officers to see . |
| 14 | the Russian have fucking one of the most powerful forces , I mean up until the Stalingrad in Moscow , the , the battle of Stalingrad they did n't know if they at all . |
| 15 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 16 | A pity they did not have TV to show us Christmas cattle grazing the Alpine pastures . |
| 17 | It is a pity they did not emerge from their hiding place in time for the 40-year anniversary reunions of the 49/50/51 groups , but they are partially relevant to the ‘ 52s next year . |
| 18 | Er it is a good thing as a health thing because they , at home they did n't get the company . |
| 19 | I 'm sure when I op opened , I 'm sure when I got my T S B they did n't charge me that much . |
| 20 | We can guess that both the lords and the village community found a uniform system , in which all the tenants had land of their own , and all worked to till the lord 's domain , had its advantages ; in particular , that the lords preferred the service of serfs , whose lives they did not have to organize in detail , to that of slaves , who were dependent on them for food and clothing and a roof over their heads . |
| 21 | Yet , significant as many of these developments were , the majority seem chiefly remarkable for the wealth they did not generate . |
| 22 | Medieval hierarchies survived into an epoch of industrial capitalism ; feudal military castes presided over national states and industrial societies whose needs they did not understand . |
| 23 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 24 | The only place they did not appear to have penetrated was Wimbledon — which was perhaps as well , since it left Mr Malik as the sole source of information on the Malik family history . |
| 25 | After clocking on for a night shift they did not start work immediately but went instead to the canteen for a cup of tea . |
| 26 | Good job they did n't give us more than seven and a half percent is n't it ? |
| 27 | They exposed strengths and weaknesses they did n't know were theirs . |
| 28 | ‘ As usual , they 've missed the whole point they did n't need an inquiry , it 's obvious what went wrong , ’ he said . |
| 29 | We have seen that in Wagon Mound they did not define the kind of damage necessary as property damage but distinguished between damage by fouling and fire damage . |
| 30 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |