Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] see [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably they did n't see a thing , and if they did , well , they 've both seen blokes in the bath before now — ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They did n't see the second passenger because she 'd fallen into the well between the front and back seats . |
| 7 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 8 | For one parent , for instance , it was public attitudes , in that ‘ people only see the disability ’ : ‘ That 's what 's wrong with society as a whole : they do n't see the person . ’ |
| 9 | They are unpopular with teenage mothers , however , either because they do n't see the importance of going , or sometimes because they have been deterred by their experiences at classes where the other mothers are older and married . |
| 10 | Some people worry that learners will object if they do n't see the whole programme . |
| 11 | Cos in the morning they get the sun from that direction , then they do n't see the sun again for a bit and then it turns up suddenly from over there . |
| 12 | They do n't see the person they do n't see the er the they 're kept separate but erm the they are rehearsed . |
| 13 | They do n't see the person they do n't see the er the they 're kept separate but erm the they are rehearsed . |
| 14 | I do n't mean that Elgar is a sensuous composer , but I mean the fluidity of Elgar , which is very much his style , which we admire and which is part and parcel of our sort of heritage , they do n't see the point of it , they ca n't really enter into the spirit of it . |
| 15 | Of course , banks still have to maintain adequate liquidity , but in practice they do not see a clear-cut dividing line between liquid and non-liquid assets . |
| 16 | They do not see the antiquated Gloria combine harvesters or the Transylvanian wheat fields bloodshot with poppies : charming to the eye , but evidence of faltering investment in machinery and decent fertilisers . |
| 17 | But that is a pity , for then they do not see the wood for the trees . |
| 18 | Birds , like planes , usually face into the wind , so they do not see the plane coming . |
| 19 | There was a phrase screeched into the microphone by a hoarse-voiced member of Socialist Workers ' Students ' Organization : ‘ The government must be deaf , dumb and blind if they do not see the madness of this war . ’ |
| 20 | There is a very important sense in which they do not see the same thing , and it is this latter sense upon which my criticism of the inductivist position has been based . |
| 21 | Weick ( 1985 ) says that , because people persist in simplifying the world , they do not see the differentiations between organizations and within organizations over time . |
| 22 | " And " is by no means always used in its Boolean sense ( consider " yachting and boating " ) , but " or " usually is so intended ( people use " or " rather than " and " when they do not see the concepts which it separates as being particularly closely related ) . |
| 23 | Pupils are tempted not to do the job properly because they do not see the work as proper' maths . |
| 24 | Pretend they do not see the degradation |
| 25 | And never mind if some of them did not see a single golf-ball struck . |
| 26 | Many of them do not see the benefits of moving to a smaller , nationally based firm . |