Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [vb pp] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 2 | we may not even have loved them . |
| 3 | If you take any wild animal and keep it in captivity ( I would have to say most wild animals ; some insects might be taken into captivity without any suffering , but if you take vertebrates into captivity there is certainly going to be suffering ) , sometimes the animals will die very quickly after being brought into captivity , and again there is often an effect on the functioning of the immune system because they often succumb to diseases which would not otherwise have killed them . |
| 4 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 5 | They came when we could n't possibly have expected them . ’ |