Example sentences of "what they [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they did n't expect was a sudden erosion of their lead in the later stages of the game , and they were glad to come out of it with their scalp intact . |
| 2 | What they did n't make was a meal . |
| 3 | These are supposed to grow with your hands , I 'll tell you what they did n't grow much with Anthony 's no |
| 4 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 5 | Well when you 're a waitress and you mix you know with all sorts and you hear different people talking and what they did and what they did n't do you now and some had Doctor pills at that time in the nineteen thirties and some used the Indian bark . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I went to clinics , I went to specialists , they poked and they peered and they prodded , they took X-rays , they did tests , I do n't know what they did n't do , and they all said the same thing . |
| 7 | What they did n't realise was that the places being offered were in the reception class — designed for children of five and over — not a nursery class . |
| 8 | ‘ Deputies in Scotland are the tier to recruit from , so presumably that says something about what they did n't want , ’ said one rejected applicant . |
| 9 | DIRECTOR Stephen Rawsthorne and writer Steve Chambers had clear ideas what they did n't want to do in turning D.H . |
| 10 | But on the other hand , he gave fans exactly what they did n't want a plan for all-seater stands . |
| 11 | Oh what they did n't ban it ? |
| 12 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 13 | What they did n't realize was that granules of radioactive material left in the bottom of the dissolving vessel had evaporated the residual liquid and heated up the base . |
| 14 | What they did n't realize was that for me , women in the end have everything because they have the ability to create life . |
| 15 | What they knew , what they did n't know , and what they did not wish to know tied people in some terrible knots . |
| 16 | What they did n't know they read about . |
| 17 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |
| 18 | They used symbols for what they did n't understand — and remember they were quite happy with not understanding — such as Goddess and God . |
| 19 | And what they did n't understand was the basic experience of any trade union branch which says if you wan na get six or eight people elected you do n't put fourteen up . |
| 20 | So I did n't get to know what what they did n't have to tell |
| 21 | The question is one of the proper interpretation of the words enacted by Parliament and it could be that the Act does what the committee thought was not practicable and what they did not intend to do . |
| 22 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 23 | What they did not foresee was that people got the impression they were going to be crushed or trampled underfoot and , though the 30,000 portions of pie were eaten , many people opted to stay away . |
| 24 | It is difficult to escape the conclusion , however , that hard-headed Protestants found it easier to attack what they did not like in magic without compromising their religion . |
| 25 | What they did not profess to understand was how it could be terminated . |
| 26 | What they did not realize was that the express train had a restaurant car and the slow train did not . |
| 27 | What they did not know was Kylie 's principles now prevented her from even touching them . |
| 28 | What they did not know — and perhaps Mr Desai did not know either — was that urine contains large amounts of melatonin — a chemical secreted by the pineal gland which is involved ( no one knows how ) in setting the body 's natural rhythms . |
| 29 | What they did not know was that their legendary luck was about to run out . |
| 30 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |