Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 5 Quality measurement is essential : " Quality measurements for each area of activity must be established where they do n't exist and reviewed where they do " ( Crosby 1979 : 132 ) . |
| 2 | " Having to live where they do n't want to live , " John Russell said . |
| 3 | Erm w I mean where they do n't work when somebody offers code and they do n't work , there 's not a lot you can do other than sort of make some informed guesses as to what might be going wrong . |
| 4 | T. B. By yourself normally on the beat but on Saturday night till midnight , you had to go in pairs , like in Gerrard Street , where they did n't like a bobby . |
| 5 | where they did n't like the Christmas , not the modern parents where they , they would n't let them have a Christmas tree , the erm the critics is was erm oh what was that about ? |
| 6 | You do seem to enjoy watching nude bathers , so do n't you think it would be much better for everyone involved if you went somewhere where they did n't mind being watched ? ’ |
| 7 | Or they did n't think there was . |
| 8 | And I think he quote those , or they did n't quote them in much , as much detail as I did in the lectures . |
| 9 | Or they did n't care . |
| 10 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 11 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 12 | Er they do n't move us on or they do n't move me on in my thinking , and they do n't lay down the charge , cos they 're predictable and and they 're using . |
| 13 | Then when it " just happens " , spontaneously and romantically , they and their girlfriends hope they do n't get pregnant , or they do n't think about it at all . |
| 14 | Either no one lives here , or they do n't want visitors . |
| 15 | This ( comment ) just goes to show that either the Chinese leadership is totally insensitive to the feelings here or they do n't care what happens anymore . ’ |
| 16 | The fact that they ca n't communicate , or they do n't speak , or whatever , is something to do with . |
| 17 | If there are a lot of people sitting in a room they 'll just sit there and they wo n't communicate , whereas two or three or four or five residents will communicate quite freely — they do n't feel inhibited or they do n't feel they 're interrupting somebody else 's television programme or radio or something like that . ’ |
| 18 | However , they can also deliver large amounts of what psychologists refer to as ‘ aversive ’ ( psychologically painful ) stimuli if routines are changed or they do n't get their own way . |
| 19 | We get our , we 're very lucky because as I travel ov in the country , there 's lot 's of Co-ops as the Guilds do n't get the grant or they do n't get room rent . |
| 20 | If you study the long-term unemployed , sadly what happens is they lose their job or they do n't get employment , and eventually they keep working hard , right , but after the period of time they get dispirited when they find that people are not willing to take them on , and of course it 's a terrible thing for them to cope with . |
| 21 | Or they do n't work Sundays they 're to lose their job ! |
| 22 | They hope that if they ignore the , the behaviour it will stop or they do n't believe their complaint will be taken seriously or that any action will be taken at all . |
| 23 | ‘ But getting back to your question , what I really wanted from this album was for anyone who hears it to say they like it or they do n't like it , but that it 's pure Steve Harley . ’ |
| 24 | Neil , from Sutton , who had joined the school during the first week of the project ( after causing severe behavioural problems at his previous schools ) commented : ‘ You 've got ta have good questions or they do n't say enough . ’ |
| 25 | They 're not old enough to go to the pubs , or they do n't seem old enough , so they just go down the park and get drunk . |
| 26 | erm But it basically comes down to the attitude that people have , if the government was , or whoever owns the forest , private ownership , or whatever , controls what the loggers do , I mean it 's their forest it 's up to them to control what the loggers do and do n't do , and whether they let cultivators in or they do n't let cultivators in . |
| 27 | Except they do n't realise they are hooked . ’ |
| 28 | He takes their belongings , their horses , then tips their naked corpses into a marsh , except they do n't sink properly . ’ |
| 29 | They were the Bay City Rollers meets The Hammer Of The Gods — except they did n't dress crap and they had good hair . |
| 30 | Even Trevor said grudgingly : ‘ It was n't too bad , except they did n't give us balloons . ’ |