Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The popular notion that words do not hurt you is by no means endorsed among women survivors of male violence .
2 But I 'm a prop , so words do n't hurt me .
3 But there 's only one piece of advice that matters really : think of the general public , in other words do n't produce something that leaves 99 per cent of the public behind . ’
4 These guidelines do n't mean you ca n't experiment and find out what feels right for you with another person .
5 Bows are an option which can work well in the right circumstances , but with a range of only 16″ do n't expect anything too dramatic .
6 But these people 's delusions do not convince me that Satan is a fiction , and psychological arguments against him by psychiatrists have no philosophical bite that carries conviction .
7 erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them .
8 I suggest that you leave here before it grows dark so that the sepoys do n't shoot you by mistake . "
9 Now the stables do n't use him as much .
10 For this reason British Waterways do not wish it to be used by canoes .
11 Their husbands do n't want them to do anything which is not passive , and in the end women end up believing the same .
12 Shoppers do n't like it .
13 ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw .
14 Addicts do n't stop what they 're doing because someone gives them a talking to .
15 On the more nebulous issue of value for money of George Street Research said there was clear evidence , of which the opening quotation forms only a part , that clients do not know what goes into a piece of legal work to justify the fee , other than the fact that the job is done .
16 ‘ If clients do n't want you to touch them , they just say no .
17 Well I do n't think they 'll like this one little bit will they , I mean the players are out there practising at the moment , they look very smart as well in an all blue tracksuit erm and erm obviously a club colour and they look very smart indeed , er but er the journalists do n't like it and I do n't think the players will like it very much either .
18 If , if you like the characteristics which you will show most of , and we 'll do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning , but the characteristics which you will show most of are one , that you are fairly gregarious person , you like being the , the salesman is a , a loner and be quite a lot more to life , so you 're fairly gregarious people , and even though there are degrees of it , you 're all fairly extrovert people as well , and those two characteristics do n't lend themselves very well to being organised .
19 In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded .
20 In short , numbers and labels do not allow us to discriminate even between stable performers and those not infrequently found ( see Stevens , 1970 , p. 125 ) ‘ in whose papers near-brilliance alternates with near nonsense .
21 There are many contracts for the sale of unascertained goods where the parties do not express their intention as to when property shall pass .
22 If the big parties do not like it the remedy is in their own hands : all they have to do is to steal that third party 's votes .
23 Parties do n't run themselves , you know . ’
24 As might be supposed , West German parties do indeed use their regional lists to promote the election of their most favoured candidates .
25 But again , the presuppositions which produce such doubts do not describe who God is for the god they describe is not God .
26 Yes it might , but the authors do n't mention it actually as a possibility .
27 yeah , he said it 's the best move I ev he said I do n't , the lads do n't give me any trouble he says I 'm fair with them and they 're fair with me
28 Such methods do not give their cause sufficient weight , but a consultative committee would ensure that disabled people have a strong voice in these matters .
29 Mr Cheniere , the school 's headmaster , is a practising Catholic of Martinican origin , a freemason whose authoritarian methods do not endear him to his students .
30 When the opera is finished , it is rehearsed and if these stupid Frenchmen do not like it , it is not performed — and the composer has had all his trouble for nothing .
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