Example sentences of "they [verb] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories !
2 They hope not to have that problem this year when the World Championships are in Santiago in Chile .
3 Oh well they said that 's because they 'd not got that section finished
4 Someone from British Coal rang a bemused Rob Gretton to find out what ‘ the political content of the record was ’ as , what with the goings-on with the imminent pit closures they claim not to want any more adverse publicity !
5 Wherever possible they try not to have that but you may have to stay away .
6 They did not give any sign of interest in us .
7 They did not achieve this , but their future was closely to parallel that of the cotton hand-loom weavers in moving through boom to desperation .
8 Although they did not offer any pathological data , they suggest that dilatation and curettage may be inappropriate in many cases and that guidelines should be developed to agree on the most appropriate patients for the procedure .
9 Then came the day of joy when doctors at Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital said they did not expect any more problems .
10 At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis .
11 Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern .
12 The problem last season was that they did not score enough goals .
13 They did not stress any particular one .
14 However , most of the interviewees stated that they did not perceive this process taking place .
15 Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble .
16 They did not talk any more on the way to the hospital .
17 But they did not do much more than that .
18 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 .
19 The organizers hired the local library for the occasion and decided , on account of tension at previous gatherings , that they did not want any police officers present .
20 For others it might be that they want the relationship to end completely and do not want to be financially dependent on their former partners ( Bradshaw and Millar found that a fifth of those not receiving maintenance said that they did not want any ) .
21 ‘ At one point we thought we had got an agreement but then they said they did not want any conditions at all attached to the application . ’
22 Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD .
23 Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that .
24 They did not make any hurry about it and Balor writhed and flailed helplessly and blood began to run out on to the ground beneath him .
25 I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties .
26 They did not experience any of the hallucinations experienced by J.A.G .
27 Andrew Collins QC , for the prosecution , said the papers , which include correspondence between a minister and senior civil servants , were immune from disclosure on the grounds of public interest , and that they did not contain any material relevant to the case anyway .
28 They did not possess such things here , that was for sure .
29 The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems .
30 Historically , these gases were called inert because it was thought they did not form any chemical compounds .
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