Example sentences of "and they [adv] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They wanted a dramatic ending where I kill off the central character and they also did n't like me making fun of the audience . |
| 2 | And although the guys knew each other pretty well , they did n't know they were each coming to me , and they also did n't know they were asking for essentially the same mods ! |
| 3 | These guys seem to think all speed limits are there to be broken and they just do n't believe they will ever be caught . ’ |
| 4 | As we have already seen , physics students made very strong ( hierarchical ) distinctions between physics and chemistry , and between physics and other disciplines — and even between subdivisions in the department itself ; one final-year student noted in B that ‘ on the top floor , one half is theoretical physics , one is experimental physics and they just do n't seem to mix ’ . |
| 5 | Men have got this thing , that they think it 's their game and they just do n't want women involved ! |
| 6 | It happens a lot that you ring the bell and they just do n't come . |
| 7 | I keep telling them I was separated from Hugh , and they just do n't seem capable of taking it in . |
| 8 | and you do get them , but I understand a lot of them , a majority of them now , er , the university students , or what have you , they do n't want to do the overtime , because they 've got to study right , they come in , they do the job , and they just do n't want any stress . |
| 9 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 10 | At least they bloody started it and they just did n't fucking jump on the bandwagon like everybody else . |
| 11 | It is the responsibility and duty of investors and businesses to take a long-term view and they increasingly do so . |
| 12 | Once they 've completed their trip all they want to do is head off back home and they simply do n't devote the time , energy and money on clearing up . |
| 13 | Severely ill people can experience exhaustion and they simply do not have the energy to carry out the necessary preventive activities ; they are dependent on nurses and others for maintaining a safe environment . |
| 14 | Well then if , if someone was breaking in and they probably do n't go through doors , burglars , I 've never really studied it but |
| 15 | ‘ We 're looking for things people remember for certain , ’ Miller says , ‘ and they often do n't recall why they did them . ’ |
| 16 | The elderly people may have a range of social connections which would understandably be given up with reluctance and they often do not at that stage need to give up their home . |
| 17 | she could n't afford it and they still did n't sell , them people kept her waiting and waiting |
| 18 | ‘ Mrs Charlie 's at their front door and they still do n't get out of her reach . ’ |
| 19 | And finally , the expert again we spoke about that , a good example really is in the computer world where you have individuals who get on really well with computers and programming but put them in a group and they really do n't provide any in fact if anything they take away from the group . |
| 20 | The British murmur ‘ You must come and stay with us some time , ’ and when they part they say ‘ Let's keep in touch ’ and they certainly do n't mean it , but it greases the wheels of intercourse . |
| 21 | The ones you can get for lunch — there are plenty — will likely forget every word you tell them , and they certainly do n't feel obliged to help . ’ |
| 22 | You need to find your own level with the person , and they certainly do n't need your comment on every single thing that they do . |
| 23 | They do n't really care enough about industry , and they certainly do n't understand that our timescales are quite different from theirs . |
| 24 | And they certainly do n't have a low opinion of him either ! ’ |
| 25 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 26 | Our four English mystics may lack the imaginative and mythical depths of the great Kabbalists and Sufis , they may not be as daring and extreme as Eckhart and they certainly do not have the lyrical passion of the sixteenth century Spanish mystics St Teresa of Avila ( 1515–82 ) and St John of the Cross ( 1542–91 ) , but they bear witness to the profundity and intelligence of the new English spirituality of their day . |
| 27 | They do not panic when they do not understand every word , and they certainly do not think there is a fault in their own language knowledge . |
| 28 | languages are differently equipped to express different real-world relations , and they certainly do not express all aspects of meaning with equal ease . |
| 29 | As I mentioned before , vitamins are chemically very unstable and they certainly do not take well to this sort of treatment . |
| 30 | In other words , Indian parents who could afford amniocentesis , the rich ones , wanted sons and they certainly did n't want daughters , because they aborted ninety five point five percent of the daughters but none of the sons , even when the sons were genetically defective . |