Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like . |
| 4 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 5 | In each country , a random sample of the electorate were questioned about their attitudes towards the political process — their perceived ability to affect political change , their participation in various political activities , their attitude towards parties they did not support and so on . |
| 6 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 7 | My honourable friend from the front benches made the point about the gaps in er these regulations , they do n't cover Lloyds , they do n't cover pension schemes , pension funds they do n't cover banks which are domiciled er in the er in in the United States but er we also have the point which I made in the interjection to the minister that unless there 's a duty to detect fraud er er as well as report it , it 's really doubtful if the auditors can perform er the function . |
| 8 | They reckon the average French woman do n't change their knickers , they only change it every two days or something and all sorts they do n't shave . |
| 9 | Now there is plums they do n't want them . |
| 10 | Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock can not always understand ; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow ( though there are also valid scientific reasons for this ) ; and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand . |
| 11 | In other words they do n't want to . |
| 12 | 11 Do n't worry if you used some words they do n't know . |
| 13 | They think they have to win to gain self-esteem , in other words they do n't value themselves highly unless they are constantly winning or one up on other people . |
| 14 | It 's very important that young people should read books they do n't want to read ; it would be a great pity if they did n't read the literature of the past . " |
| 15 | If they need to advertise their schools they do n't have enough students so it might not be that good |
| 16 | Ah gave him a clip roon the ear and tellt him and Sebastian no tae laugh at poor unfortunate incomers they do n't know any better . |
| 17 | Unlike the conventional heated rollers they do n't have any uncomfortable spikes — instead they are covered with a special light rubber material which has the capacity to grip , making them easy to use and much kinder to your hair . |
| 18 | Against Elves you have to be careful of the fear rule , as Goblins fear units of Elves they do n't outnumber two to one . |
| 19 | By their combination they prevent the master employing any journeymen they do not approve of , who as they say is not a fair man ; and all journeymen must ask the constable of the shop , for the time being , ( an officer appointed by the combination ) for work before they ask the master . |
| 20 | It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word . |
| 21 | Gentlemen like our good host still believe it 's their business to meddle in matters they do n't understand . |
| 22 | The recent history of liberal response to urban deprivation as it affects groups like women is littered with the unmet commitments and unfulfilled promises of such initiatives : each highly circumscribed ; each mediated through the transitory commitment of part-time interlopers in communities in which they do not live , among women whose lives they do not share ; and all controlled elsewhere . |
| 23 | We can guess that both the lords and the village community found a uniform system , in which all the tenants had land of their own , and all worked to till the lord 's domain , had its advantages ; in particular , that the lords preferred the service of serfs , whose lives they did not have to organize in detail , to that of slaves , who were dependent on them for food and clothing and a roof over their heads . |
| 24 | Medieval hierarchies survived into an epoch of industrial capitalism ; feudal military castes presided over national states and industrial societies whose needs they did not understand . |
| 25 | As a result , the military have bases they do not require , weapon systems they do not need , to meet threats that do not exist . |
| 26 | They exposed strengths and weaknesses they did n't know were theirs . |
| 27 | May I ask of any of your readers have any of these cutters they do not need and would wish to sell them ? |
| 28 | and do n't and particularly these days they do n't go , seem to have all that much interest in doing so do they ? |
| 29 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 30 | Er and of course you , you 'd get er , those days they did n't have cots the mother had the baby in bed with her . |