Example sentences of "they [vb past] n't [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 2 | Besides , those old Junker — ’ she was about to say all those Junker but in deference to Omi did not — ‘ they did n't all look nice . |
| 3 | They did n't all let go at once but only when they could hold on no longer . |
| 4 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 5 | She wondered why they did n't all run together in the middle . |
| 6 | They did n't all desert their girlfriends when they became pregnant , some have remained to provide crucial emotional and practical support . |
| 7 | The fact that no one laughed out loud at this remark suggested to Charles that they did n't all share his view of the man . |
| 8 | Well they did n't this year . |
| 9 | They had n't that veil on them like they used |
| 10 | I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now . |
| 11 | Mistletoe was even dearer , and they had n't any at all of that . |
| 12 | M. B. The Federation helped us but they had n't any teeth . |
| 13 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 14 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 15 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 16 | They had n't any of er Lloyd Webber 's music . |
| 17 | Eva protested that they had n't enough money . |