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Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [not/n't] [det] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself , although they do not all do so in the same way .
2	Obviously popular , it survives complete ( or nearly so ) in sixteen manuscripts many of which divide the text into chapters although they do not all agree as to how .
3	Eva protested that they had n't enough money .
4	The fact that no one laughed out loud at this remark suggested to Charles that they did n't all share his view of the man .
5	No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity .
6	Mistletoe was even dearer , and they had n't any at all of that .
7	And they do not all rotate in the same mode .
8	Leaf-cutter bee There are many kinds of bee , and they do not all swarm and live in hive communities .
9	In other words the sorts of remarks they would be passing if they had not this to talk about .
10	There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear .
11	I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up .
12	So even if they have n't much money , they 've no choice but to buy .
13	cos they have n't all
14	M. B. The Federation helped us but they had n't any teeth .
15	If such treatments could eradicate the symptoms in a large proportion of patients it would be a different matter , but they do not-in most patients , they simply reduce the symptoms to a more manageable level .
16	More precisely , lots of people have ideas , but they do not all agree .
17	But they do not all offer equal value for money .
18	All languages have systems but they do not all use them for the same purposes ; what is an essential distinction in one language may be quite disregarded in another .
19	Academic councils , professional resource centres and curriculum " clusters " all acknowledge the need to diminish isolation , but they do not all look forward with the same clear-sightedness further into any young person 's life .
20	But they do n't all work .
21	If you look carefully at the pictures , you will see each of the four children more than once , but they do n't all appear in all the pictures .
22	Said Robert : ‘ I have 36 pigeons at the moment but they do n't all race long distance ’ .
23	But they do n't that .
24	‘ But they do n't any more , do they ? ’ said Scarlet .
25	They used to but they do n't any more they 've taken all that sort of brilliant stuff away .
26	In other words , they ca n't go out themselves , perhaps rock climbing , they may have a lot of other attributes , but they have n't that particular attribute .
27	He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with .
28	He said they had to allow the Japanese to retain their arms because they had not enough men to collect them .
29	Hydrangea florets can be picked and pressed in the autumn when they are a lovely green shade with reddish tinges , although you may have to choose your bush carefully as they do not all have the same density of colour .
30	When anything like this happens in Waldron City everybody starts shouting for action , and as they have n't much idea just what kind of action they expect they take it out on the administration , and that means Wilson .