Example sentences of "they [vb base] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They do n't want you to be Queen — they want your child to be King or Queen . |
| 4 | and there 's a lot of er of what people even leave their , their fortunes to look after some animal and they do n't leave it to people like er the lady sitting here who are , folk , folk are starving , but then its because people are needed and people are needed by their children , but there also needed by their men folk and I think its when they turn to being a mother to their men that , you know , even the , the love that they have , er whether its been a sexual love at one time , er friendly love becomes a very caring love and er I think that 's what we all remember erm those of us who have lost our husbands , that would like to have that , that part back again |
| 5 | But where they 've gone on to have parish councils , you 've had the typical triangular structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they , they do n't express it to me as such , but the felling you get over is that 's the sort of structure they 're used to , because the structure of the church is built in anyway , and the whole structure of the church |
| 6 | ‘ Be careful they do n't send you to the Eastern Front , ’ I said . |
| 7 | And they do n't give them to everybody , what you do is , th the problem is that you see all that 's wrong with the depot . |
| 8 | If you have a letter come in with information that 's wrong , they do n't give it to you . |
| 9 | Usually telling you nothing , well they do n't say anything to us . |
| 10 | The only difference is that , now I 'm somebody , they do n't say it to my face . |
| 11 | But because they do n't say it to my face , it does n't mean to say I do n't still get them : now they say things behind my back . |
| 12 | We have erm , we ca n't put operator performance any more on our district , because we 've just erm , stopped that , it does n't , you know , they do n't apply it to performance any more as far as that goes , but erm , I have got three representation , three representatives , which the checkout people nominated themselves and I have a monthly meeting with those to come up with any problems but it 's still , you know , that 's tackling one issue . |
| 13 | They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise . |
| 14 | They do n't limit themselves to a single aspect as you do , Luke . ’ |
| 15 | In a climate of teacher expertise , teachers frequently pre-empt pupils ' decisions because they do not want them to ‘ get into a mess ’ . |
| 16 | I 'm going to die , but they do not want me to , and so I try to stay cheerful for them . ’ |
| 17 | Their weakness is not that they will not commit themselves to God but that they do not commit themselves to anything . |
| 18 | Women often feel that they are not at risk because they do not feel themselves to be associated with any of the so called ‘ high risk groups ’ and , although we are encouraged to have safer sex , AIDS does not really seem to be an issue for us . |
| 19 | The windows are richly dressed , though they do not lend themselves to the Kensington approach ; as with Thins , the interior has been face-lifted and made warmly welcoming . |
| 20 | No , they have n't given it to him . |
| 21 | They have n't mentioned it to Ida , of course they can |