Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] they do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er mothers to g they say what they do n't want treats as in sweets they want money to buy fireworks |
| 2 | In that when somebody has just joined into the store for instance , joins the company , they do n't know what they do n't know . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Such exchanges take place not because people need to obtain what they do not produce but in order to demonstrate and maintain social links , often of an egalitarian kind . |
| 5 | But I told them they did n't want to worry , I would pay for the grin'stone . |
| 6 | I told them they did n't know what it was like . |
| 7 | But how often do the I mean , they they do n't give you they do n't give you every detail that 's gone on all week ! |
| 8 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
| 9 | Mr Fair said later : ‘ I told him they do n't like the staff . |
| 10 | Rose from Coventry says , cats will not do anything they do n't want to do . |
| 11 | ‘ They told us they do n't trust banks and always keep their life savings with them . |
| 12 | A top firm of criminal lawyers told us they did not believe that the chances of a successful prosecution fell below 50 per cent — the CPS 's normal test . |
| 13 | So that when we galloped them they did n't know , see , mm , years ago they were very particular an another man did n't li , say I had horses and you had horses , I would n't like my horses galloping with yours . |
| 14 | But they have told me they did not do it , ’ Mr Hermens added . |
| 15 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 16 | The Romans were known to have accused everybody they did n't like of having committed human sacrifice in the same way that nations have always labelled their enemies " Frogs " , or " Nignogs " , or " Argies " . |
| 17 | Mr Field has agreed not to make any statement about his next course of action before his 11.30am meeting with Mr Kinnock , but he said that his supporters in Birkenhead had told him they did not want to see a fudge . |
| 18 | You 're not got it they do n't do one |
| 19 | They they accept it they did n't shit . |
| 20 | Bobby Charlton said of him something like , ’ People ask you how good was he ? and then when you tell them they do n't believe you , but yes , he was that good . ’ |
| 21 | Once the directive is issued , individuals have reasons to take the action it requires which they did not have before , because now there is ground to expect that a convention will be formed . |
| 22 | This is not , of course , for reviewers ' sakes but because its audience has a high proportion of AB viewers , the kind of people who tell you they do n't watch much television and who , annoyingly , are mainly telling the truth . |
| 23 | According to one of my sources , it is the origin of the American term ‘ railroading ’ , which has long been used as a slang term throughout the USA to mean compelling somebody to do something they do not want to do , and for which the legal or other administrative justification is marginal or dubious . |
| 24 | And they know what they do n't want . |
| 25 | If they do not know what they want , they know what they do not want : not school , not set college syllabus , not residential home , not training scheme , not assessment , not sheltered employment , not activity centre . |
| 26 | Few of the business-men and politicians who get excited about it know quite what it means , but they know what they do not like . |
| 27 | We do n't force any of our residents here to do anything they do n't want to do . ’ |
| 28 | The teacher that reads your review that wants to know shall I buy that review , hi hire that video rather or , or what , am I going to use it for my class , they are going to er want that information and they do n't want er concepts introduced which they do n't understand what is meant by it , so be careful in that er erm , we have species of bird , the brambling , which I , I think is a pub in |
| 29 | The dictator ( to look at one of Keith Graham 's examples ) who allowed everyone to decide for themselves what they wanted and then told them what they must do , is violating their autonomy not because their wants and needs are not realised in action , but because they have been coerced into doing something they do not want . |
| 30 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |