Example sentences of "they do [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They do n't make them like that nowadays , ’ he agreed , shaking out a scarlet Victorian ballgown . |
| 2 | They do n't make them like him anymore . |
| 3 | That is a pig of a road , I must admit , I do n't know why they do n't make it into a dual carriage way . |
| 4 | " Then how come they do n't make anything for themselves out of all this hard labor ? " inquired the senator politely . |
| 5 | They get fifteen thousand pounds and they do n't make anything from it . |
| 6 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 7 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 8 | and they do n't want nothing for their kids . |
| 9 | We wanted to send Doreen to her family , but they do n't want her after all — ’ |
| 10 | And I think with people being health conscious these days , they do n't want lots of E numbers in their food , let alone their beer . |
| 11 | They do n't want you to be Queen — they want your child to be King or Queen . |
| 12 | ‘ They do n't hold it against me , do they ? ’ |
| 13 | Dorothy went on with her work for a minute and then asked : ‘ Isobel , what happens to these kids , supposing they do n't drop themselves over the railway bridge in sheer despair ? ’ |
| 14 | They do n't feed us at med school . ’ |
| 15 | But they do n't perturb him in the least . ’ |
| 16 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 17 | Some of the college girls allow petting on a date , but I do n't know anyone who 's actually done it , other than married people , of course , but they do n't tell you about it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Oh yes , sir , it 's all secret , but the trouble is they do n't tell you about it . ’ |
| 19 | THE LAST TIME I WAS IN Baghdad I was sitting in the bar of the famous , and famously dreadful , Al Rashed ( ‘ It is more than a hotel , ’ say the advertisements , though they do n't tell you in what way ) , drinking with a senior government official . |
| 20 | There are plenty of things they do n't tell us about . |
| 21 | ‘ They do n't detain them for nothing ! ’ was the refrain . |
| 22 | I keep saying , You used to your children , but they do n't do nothing for you now , do n't they |
| 23 | I mean they do n't do nothing for nothing . |
| 24 | But course now the present day they do n't do none of that , they drive the crane and only the crane , they do n't even clean the crane . |
| 25 | I mean er scrap iron , I mean I 've done that erm where we 've loaded scrap iron ships but they do n't do none of that now and when you load scrap iron put so much in on the floor and then dockers would pull it apart and then there 'd then , mean you got ta go and pull a lot of that scrap iron out , load that off , well that the stevedore would say . |
| 26 | If they 're in a corrupt society and when they get to that position they they do n't do anything about it and accept |
| 27 | Well you got one of their trees in there and they 'll cut that down and they do n't do anything about them . |
| 28 | I 'm bilious and they do n't do anything for this |
| 29 | They do n't do anything for me at all . |
| 30 | So long as they do n't do it at those two times a day . |