Example sentences of "[conj] they did n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | Or they did n't think there was . |
| 5 | And I think he quote those , or they did n't quote them in much , as much detail as I did in the lectures . |
| 6 | Or they did n't care . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were the Bay City Rollers meets The Hammer Of The Gods — except they did n't dress crap and they had good hair . |
| 10 | Even Trevor said grudgingly : ‘ It was n't too bad , except they did n't give us balloons . ’ |
| 11 | Christy O'Connor Jnr played on the second morning and Jose Maria Canizares in the afternoon and although they did n't give me any points I felt it was important that they got a chance to taste the atmosphere and feel a part of the proceedings , as I thought that it would help them going into the singles . |
| 12 | Although they did n't win the BAFTA award that time they did in 1985 — with the theme music for another television series , Robin of Sherwood . |
| 13 | The Met , Signals and Switchboard girls all worked on the same ground floor , next to each other , and at the end of the corridor were the girls in the Intelligence office , although they did n't mix with us so much . |
| 14 | On Friday evening , we were visited by six or seven of the Chinese participants in the Friendship Hotel , and chatted with them in a relaxed manner , although they did n't seem keen on accepting whisky ! |
| 15 | Although they did n't know their names at the time , they spotted Dominic Wetherby and the American boy , Lee Horan , going into the public bar , but no-one suggested that the two parties should join up . |
| 16 | The frogs could hear them although they did n't know what they meant or even what they were . |
| 17 | The children Robert was attempting to teach were , although they did n't know it , the latest recruits to the mysterious section of English society known as the lower upper middle class . |
| 18 | She was surprised to notice that they did n't make for either of London 's airports ; rather they seemed to be flying west into the rapidly darkening sky . |
| 19 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 20 | Trade unions began , if slowly and unadventurously , to assert that they did n't give a hoot : their members were not going to run risks they did n't like . |
| 21 | ‘ The terrifying thing was that they did n't speak . |
| 22 | It stopped so that they did n't miss the conversation . |
| 23 | No one in their history had ever said to them that they did n't want to be famous , ’ says Gedge . |
| 24 | And they insisted that they did n't want more drink simply because they 'd been drinking but because they just , well , wanted it . |
| 25 | IBM turned its first Unix system , the RT , into a child of the ghetto and told 90% of its customers that they did n't want it , it was n't for them . |
| 26 | Yes erm , it was very obvious from the word go that they did n't want us . |
| 27 | Terry and Tom said that they did n't want any food and when they asked Brian , he refused to answer . |
| 28 | After all the tubes had gone my family came to see her , before that they did n't want to come and see her . |
| 29 | He then said that they did n't want an understanding with the United States , because they know that this was impossible ( sic ) . |
| 30 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |