Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] do [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They they change everything over do n't they , they they do n't do this and they do n't do that . |
2 | But they did not do much more than that . |
3 | Zuwaya said they should not watch television together ; sons should not smoke in their father 's presence , nor try to wheedle or coax money from them ; and mostly they did not do those things . |
4 | And they did n't do that for you . ’ |
5 | And going back to the taking of the bread to the erm er bakehouse erm if there was a fire going they did n't do that , because they were baked in the oven , but in the summertime we did it more often than in the winter , because if there was no fire you see , there was no gas cooker or anything like that , all the cooking was done on the coal fire and the oven at the side of it . |
6 | Erm they could have , to my way of thinking , have engaged in piecework or a reasonable incentive scheme , set with times and everything else , but er they did n't do that . |
7 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
8 | Well you see in Sanday , they did n't do that . |
9 | We 're , oh no we did n't , they did n't do that for us either . |
10 | You did n't do very well over the weekend , did you , 'cos I was watching them and they did n't do that well . |
11 | They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history . |
12 | Pity they did n't do other stuff besides |
13 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
14 | They did n't do much to cut the gloom , but they were a help . |
15 | They did n't do nice things like that . |
16 | They did n't do bad did they ? |
17 | I think they 've filled it in yeah and they did it quite smooth , pity they did n't do this one as well while they were I did n't quite understand it |
18 | But what can he and the Williams team do this year which they did n't do last ? |
19 | They did n't do any steering , as far as Masklin could see . |
20 | They did n't do any housework ? |
21 | No they did n't do any housework . |
22 | They did n't do any , they did one thou oh two thousand pounds each and one thousand of that was sovereign |
23 | The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy . |
24 | Just as well she 's not here , they did n't do any food for her . . |
25 | Not surprising really since they know they did n't do these things . |
26 | Oh well they do n't do advanced degrees . |
27 | Used to put animals to sleep , they do n't do much in the way of treatment , what we want to do from this is press for erm a P D S A grant . |
28 | er the Chad , Newark Advertiser , with er the usual useless information that they do n't do much with . |
29 | And if it is , I mean they do n't do much . |
30 | But apart from spasmodic translations of some popular fiction and poetry , they do n't do much work . |