Example sentences of "they do n't [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they would n't they do n't come down normally to ? |
| 2 | Could n't really , stand out , yes , they did n't stand out as much exhibits as they would with another occasion something else . |
| 3 | At least they did n't stand there looking stupid : at least they had the decency to look shocked and horrified . |
| 4 | They did n't stand there any longer . |
| 5 | Even when their vet warned them that Lizzie was getting on , they did n't realise just how much she had aged . |
| 6 | But they did n't realise how racist they were being to me . |
| 7 | Being the casual criminals they were , they did n't persist long in the chase . |
| 8 | They did n't arrive home until late in the evening . |
| 9 | There was little recognition of the fact that Labour lost not because they changed but because they did n't change enough . |
| 10 | They did n't go round like that they were very loners as you would say . |
| 11 | And on the whole they did n't go around poisoning roast geese . |
| 12 | But at least they did n't go around with beatific smiles mumbling about peace and goodwill . ’ |
| 13 | A physiotherapist recalled : ‘ They were n't obstructive , but they did n't go out of their way to be helpful either . ’ |
| 14 | Er they they did n't go out with the cart , just with a regular who used to go out with the with the horses and carts . |
| 15 | So they did n't go out for exercise ? |
| 16 | They did n't go out cos I said he could . |
| 17 | Our John and Molly they did n't go so that were eight . |
| 18 | He also made sure they did n't go anywhere near Evelyn or Rose whom he took to be troublemakers . |
| 19 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 20 | er , but they did n't go in for food like er you 're talking about |
| 21 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 22 | No , they did n't go back in the end . |
| 23 | If they did n't bring back the amount of money he 'd told them to , he beat them with a baseball bat . ’ |
| 24 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 25 | they did n't think too much of the weather like this . |
| 26 | At first they did n't think twice about the 132,000 volt power lines above them ; in fact they used to live next door , but one , with a pylon next to their garden fence . |
| 27 | ‘ They did n't think so , ’ said nurse . |
| 28 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 29 | Mr Evan 's rages were noisy while they lasted but they did n't last long . |
| 30 | They did n't last long . |