Example sentences of "they [verb] n't just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shame they did n't just lock the band up and throw away the key … |
| 2 | They did n't just go in twenty three years ago as somebody suggested . |
| 3 | ‘ They did n't just outplay us a bit — it was a lot . |
| 4 | They did n't just acknowledge gracefully that they 'd been beaten , or perhaps even that they had been wrong , and welcome their Reporter back . |
| 5 | So he had to stand there , in the office of the Roadworking Operatives Supervisor in the Islington Council Seven Sisters Road Highways Department Depot , sweating like a pig and wondering why they did n't just get on with it and sack him as he listened to Mr Smith and his eyes hurt and he could smell his own body-odour again . |
| 6 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
| 7 | They did n't just say you know , er er er |
| 8 | Mary did n't get hit , but she is adamant that her father threw the tray of cups and saucers to the floor and they did n't just fall . |
| 9 | They did n't just have knowledge . |
| 10 | She will say : ’ Having been through music school , I 've seen so many people who really play their instruments — I mean , they did n't just plug in and press a button . |
| 11 | THEY did n't just call it ‘ The Pink ’ back in the old days . |
| 12 | I do n't know why they do n't just open the gates and let us all out now . ’ |
| 13 | He said that a man who 's gon na build a , build something , let's put it in a modern setting , the man who 's gon na , a man and woman , a couple are gon na put an extension on their house , they do n't just go down and buy a few dozen bricks , er , and a bag cement and start , they work out how much it 's gon na cost them first of all . |
| 14 | They do n't just give up at 25 or 30 to worry about the children . |
| 15 | they do n't just leave it , they 'll go and do it , you know ? |
| 16 | And if you 've got a c country 's stamps they collect the whole lot , you know , they do n't just collect they collect the whole range all in one f And she 'd done this with her furniture . |
| 17 | Out here they do n't just send a polite cube over to your bank manager to cancel your pay . |
| 18 | ‘ They do learn they do n't just float around the room being trees . ’ |
| 19 | back to dogs that in North Korea you know they do n't just last till Christmas unclear |
| 20 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 21 | over a five year period , I mean they do n't just happen overnight |
| 22 | They do n't just turn up on the night , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 24 | Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes . |
| 25 | Erm if they 're going to charge you for your water by how much you use , they do n't just charge you twenty when you 've got your hose running . |
| 26 | I do n't know why they do n't just keep the to- bloody-gether . |
| 27 | But they do n't just flower for the fortnight you spent in Sarajevo : English roses fill the air with fragrance for month after month . |
| 28 | They do n't just put plaster casts on your legs for the fun of it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know why , if they do n't want people to come here , ’ said Betty fretfully , ‘ they do n't just put up notices all along the border describing the weather conditions . ’ |
| 30 | why they do n't just put a screen up |