Example sentences of "and they [verb] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a bad cargo see , they had n't er some stuff and they had n't stored her properly and she turned over and they all got drowned . |
| 2 | She 'd rang the police and they had n't heard of any . |
| 3 | The point Jesus was making was that it was all around them and they had n't noticed ! |
| 4 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 5 | and they had n't given that goal away , they 'd of scored another in that half |
| 6 | So the the their thoughts were away in the past and they had n't moved I thought and I learned later that my thoughts were correct . |
| 7 | But then too late they realized there was only the one power point in the garage and they had n't got enough adaptors to take all the amplifiers and instruments . |
| 8 | Well when they put the flats up , I mean they could n't keep pets , and they had n't got a garden , and there was a period of time when er we were rather concerned . |
| 9 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 10 | Said alright , so I filled out a bloody form and I went to Michelins , they knew nothing about it and they had n't got it displayed either ! |
| 11 | I looked for one of those sandwich box things for Gerald in Sainsburys and they had n't got one . |
| 12 | Yes but you , you have to buy the whole album and they had n't got that in , they 'd just sold out . |
| 13 | to put these things in ice and they had n't got any of the , of the |
| 14 | When she had been at art college , but that was just kids hunting for trophies , and they had n't meant a toss to her . |
| 15 | And they did n't leave the fumes behind them that an engine might have done . |
| 16 | no and they did n't pay much attention , they always seem intimidated of us |
| 17 | They called the shots while we were still tiny , and they did n't spring into crushed velvet bell-bottoms in 1966 , just because it was a happening thing to do . |
| 18 | They 're all here , and they did n't vote . |
| 19 | And they did n't complain ! ’ |
| 20 | They left the hospital in the morning , and they did n't reach the village until the following evening . |
| 21 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 22 | The dogs were fat and strong , and they did n't want to go on the ship . |
| 23 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 24 | His guys showed up from Washington and they did n't want to see shit . |
| 25 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 26 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 27 | and they did n't want to be scattered all over the earth so they built this er , he wanted to make , to make a name for themselves did n't they ? |
| 28 | and the state he was in and they did n't want to know did they ? |
| 29 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 30 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |