Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] [verb] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although warning signs shout at you not to cross these fragile constructions , as you 're bound to fall off and die and do n't say they did n't tell you so , you 'd have to be a boring old git not to want to do a balancing act over them for thrills . |
| 2 | Unlike the other men , Peter did not suggest they meet again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Others are those who did not adventure themselves on the Crusade , but stayed to maintain the rights of their absent lords in their proper manors and castles , but as the years passed and their lords did not return they have been turned out from their posts of trust . ’ |
| 6 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 7 | The fact that many of the twenty middle-class women did not say they disliked housework does not rule this explanation out of court . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They ‘ soldier on ’ , and not infrequently find coping strength and skill which they did not know they had . |
| 10 | As an eating-disorders expert explained : ‘ Bulimics do not admit they have a problem . |
| 11 | The reality is that while the professional/client model is attractive , people who come into contact with mental health services often do not feel they exert the kind of influence that , for example , a person might have when he is instructing his solicitor . |
| 12 | Moreover , city Indians do not feel they need lots of children to look after them when they are old . |
| 13 | He said the NHS should address itself more to the needs of cancer patients so that they do not feel they have to go outside the system . |
| 14 | I do not think they have seen me . |
| 15 | Even so , I do not think they have mended the battery correctly as it said it was about to close down and stop when the battery meter said the battery was five-eights full … |
| 16 | But Commander Roy Penrose , who organised yesterday 's raids , said : ‘ We do not believe they had as much explosives as they claimed . |
| 17 | This is the reward of industrial leadership : to see people , who do not believe they have the capability of being a winning team , gaining confidence and effectiveness and morale , and the respect not only of their peers but also of their competitors and the world outside . |
| 18 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 19 | erm when we 've dug them up I I did n't think they looked like carrots until we had |
| 20 | I did n't think they bred them like that any more . |
| 21 | He did n't think they had yet seen the hand . |
| 22 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
| 23 | And it was a young fellow who lives up Lane so I felt quite comfortable in saying I did n't think they had any young fellas who lived in Lane . |
| 24 | Did n't think they had shops in them days . |
| 25 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 26 | I did n't think they had one . |
| 27 | I did n't think they took that many |
| 28 | The management were always against carriage cleaners getting a rest day , they did n't think they needed one . |
| 29 | He also remembered the goose pimples that appeared on his arms as the evening grew cooler , and how he did n't suggest they went inside because he was afraid she would say that it was time to go . |
| 30 | Lucky they did n't specify they required a Ph.D . |