Example sentences of "they [verb] not [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not even receive presents their mother and other people had sent them for Christmas . |
| 2 | The MMI was studied by Finnerty and Park ( 1988a ) , who found that profitable arbitrage opportunities existed and , while they did not explicitly consider transactions costs , that the arbitrage profits were large enough to cover such costs . |
| 3 | Balchin 's study of this policy in West London in the 1970s draws attention to the fact that though improvement grants raised the housing standard of low socio-economic neighbourhoods generally speaking , they did not only benefit residents of the lower socio-economic groups . |
| 4 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |
| 5 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 6 | They did not much like Oliver Cromwell and his dangerous toleration of loose religion , but his regime gave them the chance to start again . |
| 7 | They did n't just have knowledge . |
| 8 | It was a bit unnerving ; they did n't even know John . |
| 9 | And now they did n't even have TV . |
| 10 | They did n't even have network , where grandma and grandpa lived . |
| 11 | Until well into the eighteen forties , they did n't actually buy dresses , they bought lengths of cloth and had them made up , either by a member of the household — a servant perhaps , or more often by a dressmaker , either a couturier or the local dressmaker . |
| 12 | The Labour Party says the firm continued trading without insuring holidaymakers ' money , because Mr Heseltine told them they did n't actually NEED insurance . |
| 13 | They did n't only want lumps on their heads |
| 14 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 15 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 16 | They do n't just put plaster casts on your legs for the fun of it . ’ |
| 17 | They do n't even have time to price them up before they 're gone |
| 18 | They do n't even have anger . |
| 19 | I think it 's too alien for men , they do n't even have period pains . |
| 20 | It 's run by a private charity and they do n't normally accept referrals from outsiders but they did n't want to be too dogmatic about that . ’ |
| 21 | Matt was gone , and anyway the crew could n't get more than 20 or 30 yards beyond where they 'd set up because they do n't exactly have towpaths in the Jungle . |
| 22 | and they do n't actually do collections , they do n't actually do , do any production . |
| 23 | They do n't actually care tuppence about me ! ’ |
| 24 | They do n't actually make customers queue outside in chilly Mayfair , but the greeting system obliges everyone who lacks star quality to stand , cap in hand , under the supercilious gaze of a giggle of girls who fiddle ineffectually with placement lists on a trolley . |
| 25 | They do n't actually remove pollutants ; they cause the particles to settle on walls , floors , table tops and fabrics . |
| 26 | ‘ They do n't ever attack people , do they ? ’ |
| 27 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |
| 28 | No , they do n't hardly cut paper . |
| 29 | Yeah they do n't half make kitchen warm though . |
| 30 | They do n't really want change . |