Example sentences of "they [verb] n't do " in BNC.
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| 1 | They they change everything over do n't they , they they do n't do this and they do n't do that . |
| 2 | They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history . |
| 3 | One print worker who was daubed and paraded on a trolley around Croydon in Surrey as an apprentice 25 years ago said : ‘ The worst thing was if they did n't do anything to you at all — it showed you were n't wanted . ’ |
| 4 | There are times when mistakes are made in school and things go wrong : children blamed for things they did n't do , events may be cancelled at short notice , cardigans and coats lost or , even worse , end up in the toilet bowl . |
| 5 | They probably did n't attend , but they did n't do anything to stop it . |
| 6 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 7 | I have no doubt there are many things you wish they did n't do , or were not , but there must be some good points ! |
| 8 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
| 9 | They did n't do nice things like that . |
| 10 | ‘ They have very mixed feelings really — anger because they have been put away for something they did n't do , and defiance to see justice done . ’ |
| 11 | They did n't do any steering , as far as Masklin could see . |
| 12 | Laing had worked some fiddle and had n't minded being caught ; he said he 'd proved that the state only acknowledged the work of mothers when they did n't do it … |
| 13 | Well I think my parents did the best they could but the pressures that were on them they , they did n't do a very good job ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There were other girls there who were on drugs , who were unhappy or sick , but still they did n't do anything . |
| 16 | And they did n't do that for you . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And going back to the taking of the bread to the erm er bakehouse erm if there was a fire going they did n't do that , because they were baked in the oven , but in the summertime we did it more often than in the winter , because if there was no fire you see , there was no gas cooker or anything like that , all the cooking was done on the coal fire and the oven at the side of it . |
| 19 | They did n't do any housework ? |
| 20 | No they did n't do any housework . |
| 21 | They did n't do much to cut the gloom , but they were a help . |
| 22 | ‘ They was always in a hurry , but they did n't do anything properly . |
| 23 | And they did n't do it for Germany . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you sure they did n't do anything ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Erm they could have , to my way of thinking , have engaged in piecework or a reasonable incentive scheme , set with times and everything else , but er they did n't do that . |
| 27 | They 've started recently , they d they did n't do it for years , we had n't been training anybody and that was unusual because when it was the big factory you were always bringing in the school leavers |
| 28 | I 'm afraid they did n't do their homework . ’ |
| 29 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 30 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |