Example sentences of "they [verb] n't see " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did n't see Jackie all day and he did n't come back with them again that night . |
| 2 | If Ted is reading this , they did n't see or smell us , honest ! |
| 3 | They all agreed to this , and they became so occupied looking for ivy on the walls alongside the lane that they did n't see two boys suddenly come racing round the bend just by Miss Miggs 's cottage . |
| 4 | Probably they did n't see a thing , and if they did , well , they 've both seen blokes in the bath before now — ’ |
| 5 | His eyes lifted to the window , but they did n't see the telegraph wires or the railway tracks or the range of dusty yellow hills beyond . |
| 6 | ‘ I was lucky , they did n't see me escape through another door . |
| 7 | They did n't see marriage and did n't want to see it . |
| 8 | ‘ The judge granted AMD a new trial based on the fact that they claimed they did n't see a Business Wire report when we announced that we sued them , ’ Intel general counsel Tom Dunlap told Reuters . |
| 9 | ‘ The judge granted AMD a new trial based on the fact that they claimed they did n't see a Business Wire report when we announced that we sued them , ’ Intel general counsel Tom Dunlap told Reuters . |
| 10 | How they did n't see me , I 'll never know , 'cos I was just huddled up in the corner of the alley . |
| 11 | ‘ They did n't see me , ’ he told Carrie . |
| 12 | They did n't see her . |
| 13 | They kept trying to speak to her and yet they did n't see her . |
| 14 | They did n't see him again . |
| 15 | They were so busy talking that they did n't see the bandits at three o'clock until it was almost too late ; or , at least , the newest and youngest arrival did n't . |
| 16 | There was a second figure , which they did n't see : high above them , Timothy Gedge gazed down from the cliff-top path . |
| 17 | They did n't see their prewar friends again and did n't replace them , it was hard to know why . |
| 18 | The men of the family always formed a very solid front to the outside world , and at times to their womenfolk , and as it had been the custom among their people for children to be looked after by the men on the mother 's side of the family , especially if a brother had no issue of his own , they did n't see why the sisters were making such a fuss . |
| 19 | ‘ They did n't see anything because they were working in their little tent , ’ she went on , ‘ but they did hear someone hurrying past and then a car starting up a little way away . |
| 20 | ‘ They brought some other poor sod in , ’ he said , as if in answer to my question , ‘ but I was over behind the door and they did n't see me . |
| 21 | The beady little eyes stared up at her reproachfully , but they did n't see anything . |
| 22 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 23 | ‘ Then let's trust that they did n't see you . |
| 24 | This can be illustrated by a sentence in the active such as They did n't see him cross the street , which in fact usually implies that he did cross the street , even though he was not seen doing it . |
| 25 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 26 | They did n't see the second passenger because she 'd fallen into the well between the front and back seats . |
| 27 | The plebeians are a bit thick , as they did n't see through Caesar . |
| 28 | Since they do n't have problems landing on their gliding site , they do n't see why there should be any particular problem landing elsewhere . |
| 29 | My people at the PFA feel that until the League get together and show there is a practical job for me to do , they do n't see why they should let me go . ’ |
| 30 | We really ca n't see much future for a gang of derelicts like this — ‘ rather a favourable specimen of what is best in our English culture ’ , one character blithely insists — and they do n't see any for themselves . |