Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb infin] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Eva was at Usher the political situation did not give them too much pause for thought . |
| 2 | However , despite some change in secondary selection , it remains the case , most remarkably , that though wartime and free education made the arguments of economy , fairness and impartiality more applicable they did not make them universally acceptable . |
| 3 | They had the moral flexibility to meet shifting organizational demands and still enjoy the sleep of the just — their ability to relativize other moral imperatives whilst constantly prioritizing the pursuit of organizational goals did not make them necessarily immoral , but it did facilitate a moral flexibility others denied themselves . |
| 4 | Councillors are angry that the police authority did not inform them earlier of the massive price hike . |
| 5 | Chief Joseph did not reach them soon enough . ’ |
| 6 | Yet beyond this general expectation he did not pressure them too early , at one point he seriously doubted whether Hideki was fitted to benefit from university study . |
| 7 | The contractors did not block them up , and when the reservoir was filled the water from it burst through the old shafts and flooded A's mines . |
| 8 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 9 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 10 | But I did not bring them home then ; the school doctor said it was not necessary . |
| 11 | Other aspects of freedom did not affect them so much . |
| 12 | Philip , as overlord of Brittany , at once claimed custody of Geoffrey 's two daughters , and threatened to invade Normandy if Henry II did not hand them over . |
| 13 | The owner of large , complex estates , who did not manage them personally , might never have a clear idea of his full income . |
| 14 | She knew that the police do not have white cards , but did not press them further on the issue . |
| 15 | Journalists wore the amused smiles of people enjoying a good argument which did not threaten them personally . |
| 16 | The Chinese did not like them then and , it seems , entertain no warmer feeling for them now . |
| 17 | Thérèse did not read them immediately . |
| 18 | He said there were items which he had wanted to buy but Mrs Knight did not want to sell and he did not take them away . |
| 19 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 20 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 21 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
| 22 | Elisabeth heard the words but did not take them in consciously . |
| 23 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 24 | It did not trouble them much . |
| 25 | The players told him after the game that the lights did not trouble them as much as sunlight . |
| 26 | There was a flaw in the intervention For example , the rewards chosen were unsuitable in that the child did not value them enough or there was inconsistency because the PB was defined ambiguously . |
| 27 | At first she did not let them in ‘ because I thought they were drunks from the pub next door ’ . |
| 28 | He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again . |
| 29 | For example , even those who did live near their kin did not see them especially often . |
| 30 | ‘ But because they were so busy with their business , he did not see them as much as he wished . |