Example sentences of "[adv] they do [not/n't] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Even the otherwise haughty Surrey committee was moved to complain about this lack of common courtesy , though naturally they did not go so far as to suggest meals should be taken in common . |
2 | Only they do n't joke much about death . |
3 | So they do n't last very long . |
4 | So they do n't do so bloody bad do they ? |
5 | So they did not go anywhere near the doctor . |
6 | Greenidge was happy to admit that playing alongside the South African was ‘ an education and an inspiration ’ , but he also conceded that while they both had many outstanding days individually they did not score as many runs in partnership as they might have done , since they were both attacking players and therefore risk-takers . |
7 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
8 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |
9 | Often they do n't have even baking tins , or enough pans . |
10 | Maybe she 'll apply at the hospital then if she 's a qualified cook , they 're in and out of there like , like nobody 's business the cooks , they ca n't , well they do n't stay long |
11 | The parents were the only variable and even they did n't vary much ; their reactions followed a predictable pattern as well understood by the police as it was by the kidnappers . |
12 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
13 | Er , fulltime , I mean the students here they do n't count really . |
14 | They do n't they do n't smell so bad compared with the other ones do you want one Dad ? |
15 | But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point . |
16 | Yet even then they did not play particularly well . |
17 | So initially , I used the camera without anybody in the class … then they do n't know exactly what is going to happen . |
18 | At least they did n't stand there looking stupid : at least they had the decency to look shocked and horrified . |
19 | When you are visiting an elderly parent you will probably notice that there are times when they do not feel particularly like either talking or listening . |
20 | However they did not eat significantly more chocolate or feel greater cravings than eaters who made no secret of their habit . |
21 | That 's why they do n't go anywhere you see . |
22 | This in itself is a mildly interesting observation and certainly needs to be made ; but what we should go on to do is to say why they do not appear there . |
23 | We have not , for example , looked at government training schemes because until very recently they did not feature very prominently in government policies . |
24 | Or do you wan na lose the ground missiles again or they 're actually they do n't go very fast they 've got warheads on them . |