Example sentences of "and [Wh det] [noun] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hear the men beginning the old bawdy ‘ Thousand and One Nights of the Wolfking ‘ , which had been written about Cormac , and which Lugh did not care for overmuch , because even if you discounted half the things it said , you were still left with a patently exaggerated tale . |
| 2 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 3 | A single , introverted individual who was self-catering and whose job did not require contact with others would be able to live like this . |
| 4 | The press would have had a field day , and what Frank did n't realize is that he himself would have been a laughing stock . |
| 5 | And what grades do not do is tell all that is known about the student 's performance or abilities . |