Example sentences of "they do [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a natural thing for them to do so I did n't take any action — told them in no uncertain terms that this man was ill and he eventually came to and everyone was happy then . |
| 2 | If they did , they were assessable to Hong Kong profits tax but if they did not they escaped assessment . |
| 3 | This belief , regardless of whether it was justified or not , both stopped leaders acting contrary to public opinion and persuaded citizens to accept the legitimacy of laws they did not themselves agree with . |
| 4 | However , they did not themselves participate in the commission of any offence ; nor did they act as ‘ agents provocateurs ’ or incite crime . |
| 5 | FoE does , however , have sympathy for businesses exposed to liabilities because they have unknowingly become owners of contaminated land that they did not themselves pollute ; as a result , for example , of buying land defiled by a previous owner . |
| 6 | Many parents and grandparents in the provinces followed ‘ the May-June events ’ on state-run television : their view of what was happening differed from that of the younger generation in Paris and university campuses across the country ; many students followed developments hour by hour on Europe I — if they did not themselves join the demonstrations and mount the barricades . |
| 7 | Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity . |
| 8 | They did n't they played him once . |
| 9 | So they they did n't they kept to their . |
| 10 | There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they did n't they asked and I told them . |
| 11 | Well it was part of their course I think , I , they did n't they paid the full cost of it , they contributed a bit , but I think Colin stood |
| 12 | They did n't they did n't take them out of the Joe you know erm |
| 13 | They did n't they did n't . |
| 14 | Now the last one they did n't they did n't get in was a majority . |
| 15 | they did n't he did n't drink he did n't he did n't dig the graves all a in one in one in one day like you know . |
| 16 | Oh no they did n't I know what we use to call them , left hand and door cork , captain quartermaster . |
| 17 | As they did so there came out of the mist a car and it must have seen the crows at me for it stopped . |
| 18 | Well my husband was out o on strike and I 'd erm got two babies , a year and ten months , and I felt that I had to go and get a job and I was desperate so I 'd heard people talking about these things as they did so I thought well I 've got to do something . |
| 19 | If they do n't they go under . |
| 20 | If they do n't they go without . |
| 21 | They do n't they 've still got , they 've still got no military technology |
| 22 | They do n't they bear grudges do n't they and they do n't go away but |
| 23 | That 's the trouble with people like Ollie , I think : when they come off they 're really good company , and when they do n't they miss by a mile . |
| 24 | Er Chris they do n't they tend to I think it 's like a lot of people in the U K I mean you 've got in the machine tools side but like on the on the side , They use use hydrostatics . |
| 25 | We often meet people who are in in their forties and fifties on er early retirement and little bit difficult to get over the message they do n't they do n't see it as retirement and yet surprisingly very few of the people who got redundancy at forty and forty five and fifty seem to be bothered about taking up other work at all that . |
| 26 | They do n't they do n't make crab at the end . |
| 27 | They do n't they do n't accept him They came here for years , |
| 28 | They do n't they do n't really know . |
| 29 | If they do n't they do n't do they ? |
| 30 | it opens the door , it opens the door , that 's why both my younger girls , I mean Diane 's a different policy any way cos she wants to be a , but with the other two , who worked interest in computers and when they left college I gave them crash course in , in typing not in shorthand because they do n't they do n't need shorthand nowadays , |