Example sentences of "they did n't [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your magazine discovered they did n't legitimately earn enough to meet their bills ? ’ |
| 2 | Nor did their broadcasts attribute any part of the story to me — there was no reason for them to do that because I 'd told them nothing they did n't already know . |
| 3 | I really genuinely thought I was speaking for everyone , but they would now say they did n't particularly agree with me . |
| 4 | They did n't seemingly . |
| 5 | She thought the girls would regard anyone who wanted to relive her childhood as wringingly wet , but they did n't openly sneer — just went back to whatever they 'd been doing while Constance and Camille walked away to appreciate the fine lines and charming dispositions of twenty greyhounds . |
| 6 | They did n't exactly have three girls at centre-back either . |
| 7 | ‘ On paper it would have been perfect , but they did n't exactly hit it off , ’ said the source . |
| 8 | It was n't that they could n't speak , they did n't no how to speak , they did n't no how to speak but they could n't . |
| 9 | It was n't that they could n't speak , they did n't no how to speak , they did n't no how to speak but they could n't . |
| 10 | They did n't officially let me out-I escaped . |
| 11 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 12 | There were bed-baths and nurses — nurses who if they did n't yet seem to be bursting out of their brassieres , were certainly stretching their blouses to danger point . |
| 13 | They did n't bleeding look it , the Well you can have half an hour in the morning and half an hour at night , that 's an hour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ They did n't just outplay us a bit — it was a lot . |
| 17 | Shame they did n't just lock the band up and throw away the key … |
| 18 | ‘ But what I ca n't understand is why they did n't just take our project in the first place . |
| 19 | They did n't just have knowledge . |
| 20 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | THEY did n't just call it ‘ The Pink ’ back in the old days . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They did n't just go in twenty three years ago as somebody suggested . |
| 25 | They did n't just say you know , er er er |
| 26 | ‘ They did n't even speak to me , ’ he said . |
| 27 | They did n't even get a record deal . |
| 28 | The last place they were in they did n't even have a proper bed . |
| 29 | They did n't even know I could sing , but they said they could do things to my voice . |
| 30 | They did n't even bother with the formality of retiring to consider the case . |