Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car .
2 Durham County Council say they did not know the source of the waste , nor the company responsible for dumping it , and they admitted it is too late to find out .
3 They complained to the council saying they have n't got planning permission .
4 The management admit they do n't hire people with beards and growing one is a sackable offence .
5 Heaven send they had not given up on her !
6 It was not good enough that the IDB say they do n't know what to do to develop West Belfast ; this issue should be addressed .
7 The team said they did n't think it was .
8 Family members at his funeral said they do not believe official accounts .
9 Traders/sellers found themselves having to sell more sophisticated goods to more sophisticated customers , and had to fine tune credit facilities designed to increase profitable trading to ensure they did not reduce it , let alone end it .
10 This takes a copy of vital boot sector and hard disk partition information during installation , and checks both disk areas during boot-up to ensure they have n't changed .
11 As the name implies they do not harden permanently but will soften repeatedly if one subjects them to some temperature between about 100° and 150°C .
12 Part of the audience decided that this was n't what they wanted to see , another part decided they did n't want to hear about politics anymore .
13 System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months .
14 Those jobs can be protected , I know the hunting fraternity say they do n't want to drag hunt .
15 The presiding jury claimed they had not chosen her , as she alleged , but Elina Guimaraes , an 84-year-old former suffragette .
16 The man in charge of road mending in one county says they have n't got the money to keep up with repairs .
17 Then came the day of joy when doctors at Newcastle upon Tyne General Hospital said they did not expect any more problems .
18 But the company say they have n't done as badly as some of their competitors , and predict a better year ahead .
19 The older generation say They did n't do the job this way .
20 ‘ Too many of these unions getting pay increases they do n't deserve . ’
21 Patients with ‘ non-ulcer dyspepsia ’ who seem refractory to all treatments might be assessed in this way to ensure they do not have a gross disorder of gastric emptying , but the likelihood that the result will advance clinical management seems small .
22 And going back to the taking of the bread to the erm er bakehouse erm if there was a fire going they did n't do that , because they were baked in the oven , but in the summertime we did it more often than in the winter , because if there was no fire you see , there was no gas cooker or anything like that , all the cooking was done on the coal fire and the oven at the side of it .
23 ‘ They were all looking round the screen saying they had not seen the bum of anyone famous before , ’ he recalls .
24 Graphics applications run very slowly because they have to go through a filter to ensure they do n't crash the machine .
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