Example sentences of "but they [verb] [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they do not do so in the wild , so the species remain distinct . |
| 2 | But they do not do this carelessly . |
| 3 | They usually can ; but they do n't do very well in the marathon four days later ! |
| 4 | FALLING interest rates may be good news for home buyers but they do n't do savers any favours . |
| 5 | Mum and Connie keep talking about it , but they do n't do anything . |
| 6 | I keep saying , You used to your children , but they do n't do nothing for you now , do n't they |
| 7 | I mean er scrap iron , I mean I 've done that erm where we 've loaded scrap iron ships but they do n't do none of that now and when you load scrap iron put so much in on the floor and then dockers would pull it apart and then there 'd then , mean you got ta go and pull a lot of that scrap iron out , load that off , well that the stevedore would say . |
| 8 | So the tr the owners who owned them them days you could read about them , but they do n't do it today , cos the trainers ring them up and tell them how they 're going , do n't they ? |
| 9 | His men are as tough as they come , but they do n't do things like this to women . ’ |
| 10 | Absolutely , but they do n't , but they do n't do they , I mean , bad news everybody wants to know about , but , but not good news . |
| 11 | Yes but they do n't do it now |
| 12 | one get , yeah , one gets up behind it and can in the back I suppose , but they go after they , and then , you think as soon as you pull out , you 're gon na get all that , yeah , he 's gon na get all that , but they do n't do they ? |
| 13 | Yeah , but they do n't do it , they do it on , er |
| 14 | I rang them up , it 's , it 's Bolton , but they do n't do |
| 15 | but they do n't do anything |
| 16 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 17 | But they do n't do hanging or anything . |
| 18 | but they do n't do that , do they ? |
| 19 | But they did not do much more than that . |
| 20 | They probably did n't attend , but they did n't do anything to stop it . |
| 21 | ‘ They was always in a hurry , but they did n't do anything properly . |
| 22 | Hereford went down 5-3 but they did n't do so bad |
| 23 | In fact , we 're disappointed with it cos usually we have vegetables out of our own garden all the year round but they did n't do very well this year did they ? |