Example sentences of "what they [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | I like the cup ones , only what I , what they do n't do which I think is silly |
| 22 | I ca n't tell you what they do n't do . |
| 23 | What they do n't realise is that sycamore reacts with light . |
| 24 | ‘ What they do n't realise is that they are dealing with a high-risk food product , ’ he warned . |
| 25 | Like people saying PJ Harvey will be amazing when she gets outside herself … what they do n't realise is that she already has . |
| 26 | I 've known many British historians who have an adequate reading knowledge of German , erm who go into the archives expecting to be able to read the documents , and what they do n't realise in advance is that the handwriting is actually Gothic script . |
| 27 | Once parents begin to think about what they want to see their child doing rather than what they do n't want to see , their whole orientation to management starts to change . |
| 28 | And they know what they do n't want . |
| 29 | Well , I think academics are quite good at resisting what they do n't want to deal with you know , so in many departments , it 's not had very much . |
| 30 | People are quite good at covering things up ; they say , I do n't know very much about literary theory , you talk to so and so down the corridor ; or Well , I do n't know African writing , but So-and-So does , and then people offer options on them , that to some extent is what we do here , within a framework of a fairly traditional English structure … people manage by excluding what they do n't want to deal with , really . |