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

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1 If they do n't it will soon be another broken link with the past .
2 it 's no good saying to someone come on you should know this if they do n't it does n't help does it .
3 land reform , if they do n't it 's suggesting it 's just another means of obtaining power by fragmenting
4 But ulcers try very hard to heal — if they do not it is often because of nurses who unwittingly use the wrong treatment .
5 Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity .
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