Example sentences of "not [verb] they the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 2 | We must also recognise that we have not given them the support and management guidance on practical recruitment that they , as volunteers , need . |
| 3 | and it 's on minimum premiums , you 've got a little bit of a discount there , but again , bearing in mind nine pound sixty might not buy them the cover they want . |
| 4 | Even though the story reverberated through the Highlands , there is no evidence that either Boswell or Johnson knew the tale — had they done so , Boswell might have been less merry with his lubricious reasons as to why the woman would not show them the bedroom . |
| 5 | The council tax will treat widows unfairly in the same way , because it does not give them the discount that they deserve . |
| 6 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 8 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 9 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 10 | It is absurd not to give them the chance , and help British industry and world science . |
| 11 | A number of councillors are asking for a judicial review of an RUC decision not to give them the go-ahead to get personal protection weapons . |
| 12 | Had he not left them the night before , exclaiming : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand ’ ? |
| 13 | Since the industry is in any case organized in some particulars by the Milk Marketing Board , a governmental agency , why not award them the contract for nationwide milk supply ? |
| 14 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |
| 15 | Bernard Cotton , the England manager , forcefully expressed the view that England failed to beat the Lahore XI because the Pakistani umpires did not award them the penalty corners and strokes they had earned . |