Example sentences of "not [vb infin] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I admit I did not think they would do that . ’ |
| 2 | The children were terrified when the flood happened and I just do not think they would want to come back . ’ |
| 3 | Nutty did not think they would win . |
| 4 | Saddam is now more reliant than ever on other clans , which do not think they would survive his overthrow . |
| 5 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 6 | Other publishers do not think they must follow Reed 's initiative to regain lost ground . |
| 7 | For I do not think they will talk to me , not without encouragement . |
| 8 | But I do not think they will believe it necessary to dilute our sense of national identity in order to play a full-hearted role in Europe . |
| 9 | When , not too long afterwards , an emissary came to ask me how much money I wanted not to look too closely into Thieme 's affairs , I knew what many an ‘ investigative ’ journalist knows : for some people , there are no rules , no codes they do not think they can break . |
| 10 | Second , we will set-down the perspective of the Liberals and SDP — the parties that have been most active in pressing the case for a new constitution precisely because they do not think they can win within the rules of the old one . |
| 11 | The Americans are telling East Europeans that they should not think they can join NATO — that would break the ‘ do n't gloat ’ rule — and they do not mean to imply , either , that NATO 's security perimeter has been extended to the Soviet-Polish border . |
| 12 | Bill Mumford says of course they will make it … they would not be going if they did not think they could do it … they have been well prepared … |
| 13 | Quite a number of farmers from these areas , although still with 10–15 years active service left , did not think they could benefit from training : for them it was ‘ something for the young folk ’ . |
| 14 | What they did not know they could imagine . |
| 15 | A PKF spokesman said that the partners had decided to merge because ‘ they did not feel they would have the opportunity to grow much more unless they joined a bigger firm ’ . |
| 16 | What comes across , to us , is that workers , on the whole , do not feel they can change the principal features of their world of work … |
| 17 | Often patients , particularly newly diagnosed people , were unsure about an aspect of their diet or treatment but did not feel they should bother their GP or hospital . |
| 18 | Though very sympathetic and sensitive to the needs of the birth family most adopters did not feel they could cope with contact . |
| 19 | The party authorities in charge of the campuses , however , did not feel they could allow these radical developments to take place . |
| 20 | He said there was never a day when he did not believe they would survive . |
| 21 | Marshall does not believe they can succeed unless they adapt their approach . |
| 22 | We protect older people from harm , real and imaginary , because we do not believe they can protect themselves . |
| 23 | If the small company audit is abolished , the reason for being authorised will disappear along with a substantial part of their earning capacity which they do not believe they can recoup through selling other services . |
| 24 | If people learn by caring and sharing and linking hands in Southern California , it does not follow they will learn by similar therapeutic techniques in Thailand and Tanzania . |
| 25 | I do not suppose they should have the right to kill them , though I must confess the thought makes me a little excited . |
| 26 | Although building professionals may not have to manage workers in the building , this does not mean they can ignore the elements of motivation and job satisfaction . |
| 27 | There are those who imagine , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that because they know the machine will not start they can afford to ignore it . |
| 28 | At least , present theories do not say they should weigh anything , and observation has suggested that if they do weigh something , it is next to nothing . |