Example sentences of "so they [verb] n't [vb infin] " in BNC.

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31 Water well , then carefully remove the container and gently tease out the outer roots , so they do n't develop in the wrong direction .
32 As we have seen , horses can learn some things very quickly , and once learnt it becomes a habit so they do n't have to reconsider the matter each time it arises .
33 ‘ What people are concerned about is that , if they train certifieds or AATs , they do n't have to cope with the bureaucracy , they do n't have to be formal training offices and so they do n't have to be quite so concerned that they have to provide the right sort of additional courses for people to attend to back up their exams .
34 I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front
35 They should get out and cut the trees back from the lines so they do n't have the problem .
36 You know they 're , they 're opposed to it in principle erm so they do n't have an income tax , they do n't have a sales tax either er I 'm not quite sure how they finance public services in New Hampshire , it 's a mystery to me .
37 They make me laugh , when they sit in 'ouse with blanket round them , so they do n't have to turn 'eating up .
38 erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it .
39 Proper black and white processing takes weeks these days , unless you have your own darkroom , and sometimes the photo-kiosks think they 've cocked it up when the pictures come out sepia and so they do n't charge .
40 Many people today only believe in what they can see and touch and so they do n't believe in spirits , demons , angels or even God !
41 Estate agents make money by selling houses , normally about 1.5–2% of what the seller gets for his house : ( up to £600 pounds on a £30,000 house ) so they do n't mind working for it .
42 And we 're working to get governments and logging companies to grow more of their own wood on special plantations so they do n't need to invade the forest .
43 ‘ They now have in-house expertise , so they do n't need the dealers to hold their hand . ’
44 They are three friends who have put their heads together to discuss the merits of a teacher , so they do n't need the splendid isolation of a separate line each .
45 Probably er you know people 's probably got a bit of money so they do n't need to break in to anybody .
46 I mean the Halifax charged me three hundred pounds for this and I 've already got a mortgage with them , so they do n't need to do any sort of er er in depth surveys , or , or , or assessments on the house .
47 Maybe plants should be designed so they do n't need to be shut down .
48 They do n't want them arrested for doing what they are trained for , so they do n't arrest agents of Argentina .
49 ‘ But they 're top-job people , you see , and they 're all in family units so they do n't understand , their minds are closed .
50 ‘ And so they do n't know which button to push in the lift , ’ laughed the Youngest Son .
51 Two women passed out when raped by number three so they do n't know . ’
52 it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it
53 There 's no reporting back , for instance , so they do n't know how well they 've done or what mistakes they make .
54 ‘ People are paranoid — they just want to keep the problem under control so they do n't get robbed by juvenile delinquents , ’ she said .
55 I 'm buying material where the tape measures are big , so I get extra , and I sell it where the tape measures are small , so they do n't get as much as they think they 've got .
56 But in our time , it 's very quiet now so we 've we 've moved into a different routine again , where I have two two sergeants out at one time , changing over er frequently so they do n't get bored .
57 ‘ The teachers do n't teach , the priests do n't bother , and they 're releasing all the lunatics into the community so they do n't get looked after and they 'll either pass out from exposure or starvation or kill people because they 're mad , and then they 'll be slung into prison to add to the overcrowding , and all in all it does n't make a lot of sense .
58 These can quickly be removed so they do n't get in the way during the game of an experienced player .
59 And they just pull down and there all flush , so they do n't get knocked .
60 Roger Sanderson wants the Forest of Dean Commoners Association … a grouping of sheep farmers … to keep better control of their animals so they do n't stray onto the industrial estate and roads.The right to graze the Forest of Dean dates back thousands of years , and it 's jealously guarded by the commoners.They say its up to the businessmen to fence the sheep out if they 're proving troublesome :
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