Example sentences of "people they [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the professional ladies were slumped around the telly in see-through armchairs , watching some kids ’ show called Cyclopaths , about a bunch of motorsickle chappies who went around slaughtering people they did n't think much of . |
| 2 | They did n't want to go and kill a lot of people they did n't know . |
| 3 | Naturally we went to share our sandwiches with the robins , which were starving , but they were so unused to people they did n't seem to know what bread was . |
| 4 | No , no , cos you had , see they , these big people they did n't wan na be into it they same getting their money , like and and , , , they did n't want strikes . |
| 5 | The only people they do n't want to upset are the people at the garage the fact that somebody is n't doing their job properly somebody 's sitting on a form somewhere |
| 6 | Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends . |
| 7 | Because it keeps happening , boys and girls in their summer holiday keep get getting taken away by people they do n't know and nasty things done to them . |
| 8 | What are these chaps called who go around murdering lots of people they do n't know ? ’ |
| 9 | Nationally seven children are abducted and killed by people they do n't know each year … a tragedy for each family but clearly not an everyday threat … |
| 10 | Picture to yourself a monstrous skip crammed with trivia : singularly ununique childhood memories , 5 billion sports results , faces of people they do n't like , plots of television soap operas , tips concerning how to clean red wine off a carpet , the name of their MP , that sort of thing . |