Example sentences of "they [verb] what they [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | er mothers to g they say what they do n't want treats as in sweets they want money to buy fireworks |
| 2 | If they do not know what they want , they know what they do not want : not school , not set college syllabus , not residential home , not training scheme , not assessment , not sheltered employment , not activity centre . |
| 3 | Few of the business-men and politicians who get excited about it know quite what it means , but they know what they do not like . |
| 4 | And they know what they do n't want . |
| 5 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |
| 6 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |