Example sentences of "they do not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first they did not speak to each other . |
| 2 | They did not travel to Tibet to seek enlightenment in high places and in an alien culture — though one at least knew the capacity of the literal pilgrimage journey to trigger an existential experience of this power , and they all believed some kind of solitude and withdrawal from the normal conditions of social life to be an enabler of such knowledge . |
| 3 | The man and woman met by arrangement at Waterloo Station , although they did not appear to . |
| 4 | They did not appear to be engaged , nor was Madeleine sporting a ring , but Harry had had no opportunity to discover if the army captain was really her fiance . |
| 5 | He was nursing in silence the options left to him , and so far they did not appear to him totally unpromising . |
| 6 | When I first met the car manufacturers , they did not appear to be taking the matter very seriously at all , but my last meeting with them revealed that they are now much more prepared to make their cars more secure . |
| 7 | He wanted to eliminate people within and without the party and by killing Kirov , another major figure in the party he could eliminate those in the party whom he disliked , legitimately enough , so that they did not appear to be murdered but victims of the purges . |
| 8 | This came across in the interview because although the managers were under a lot of pressure they did not appear to be panicked or stressed by it . |
| 9 | Regarding behaviour , participants were asked to indicate from always ( five points ) to never ( one point ) the frequency of instances occurring where , for example , they got drunk even when they did not intend to ; their drinking left them short of cash ; they drank to help themselves deal with a crisis ; and they missed meals because they wanted to drink instead . |
| 10 | But whereas these ideas of the ‘ correlation of forces ’ led to insights like those of Oersted and Faraday in electromagnetism , they did not lead to the restructuring of the various sciences . |
| 11 | Thankfully , they did not lead to the same tragic results . |
| 12 | They did not want to be bothered with her joys and despairs and she did not want to be bothered with theirs . |
| 13 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 14 | That they did not want to be wage slaves in a factory . |
| 15 | Each of them must tread on and on , a ceaseless , bone-grinding trudge , if they did not want to be taken up and up by the gyrating treadmill into the clanking , turning cogs in the roof and ground to dust between the pinions . |
| 16 | Most of the houses exhibited ‘ No Vacancy ’ signs — not because they were full but because they did not want to be bothered by the stray dogs of winter . |
| 17 | They were both speaking in the slightly lowered tone that meant they did not want to be overheard , and were only having the discussion at all because they believed Belinda to be safely out of earshot . |
| 18 | He said that one of their reasons for lying was probably that they did not want to be publicly associated with the Carpenter Club . |
| 19 | Only two trade unions indicated that they did not want to be part of the SZOT confederation . |
| 20 | McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents . |
| 21 | The girls admitted they did not go to discos , but said they had friends . |
| 22 | I M P A C which was formed to protect the pensioners had threatened an injunction if they did not go to Court . |
| 23 | They did not go to the cinema ! |
| 24 | They did not deserve to be taken seriously because they did not take seriously the main currents of the culture they were attacking . |
| 25 | Yes , it is true , but I must add the following : even her hand-outs to beggars were based on negation : she gave them money not because beggars , too , belonged to mankind , but because they did not belong to it , because they were excluded from it , and probably like her , felt no solidarity with mankind . |
| 26 | Gaily picked them — they did not belong to any grave — to take to Ma . |
| 27 | Sometimes she dreamed fretfully of trees that came right up close , like gnarled old men walking , but they did not belong to any patch she recognized . |
| 28 | Jews despised and hated Gentiles : despised them because they did not belong to the elect ; and hated them because they lorded it over God 's chosen people . |
| 29 | On Aug. 7 , Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka , addressing a public meeting in her native Poznan a month after taking office [ see p. 39017 ] , was applauded when she criticized striking workers , saying that they did not belong to the groups which earned least . |
| 30 | On Aug. 7 , Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka , addressing a public meeting in her native Poznan a month after taking office [ see p. 39017 ] , was applauded when she criticized striking workers , saying that they did not belong to the groups which earned least . |