Example sentences of "they [verb] not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they receive notification from education of the intention to assess a child , they are uncertain of their role , and so , with other pressing priorities , they tend not to give it high priority . |
| 2 | They tend not to explore what difference it makes who takes part in the public-policy process , or else they assume that the beneficiaries of public policy can simply be " read-off " from information about group participation because of uncomplicated assumptions about all groups being able to participate in order to advance their own interest . |
| 3 | ‘ The airlines all know , of course , but they tend not to make it public for commercial reasons . ’ |
| 4 | What they tend not to tell you is how well a given PC stacks up against others … |
| 5 | No , but , even , even some of those erm the only thing is they tend to get work and they tend not to tell you they 've done it . |
| 6 | Then , when they seemed not to hear him , he repeated it , stronger this time , commanding them . |
| 7 | It depends , some of them bigger Vauxhalls see they do n't hold their money . |
| 8 | Gateways do n't do they do n't take their pounds out . |
| 9 | And you just But as we were saying er talking to Janet afterwards there was another little one down at the side , erm mum was getting a bit irate with him , but you see they do n't take anything for the children to do . |
| 10 | See they do n't know it 's to hurt . |
| 11 | These are increasingly hard to get — a Coventry welfare rights centre had so many claimants complaining that they 'd not received their statutory entitlement to maternity grants that the centre has printed a special complaints form . |
| 12 | if they 'd not done it . |
| 13 | Oh , they decided not to give us quite so much work ? |
| 14 | They decided not to use their C class inshore lifeboat due to its weight and the difficulty in manoeuvring and lifting her over obstacles in the flood water , so two 16ft open boats were obtained from Red Bay Boats . |
| 15 | ‘ They decided not to use it on this trip because opening it might disrupt the passengers . |
| 16 | Having decided they had that power , they decided not to exercise it and made no order under that section . |
| 17 | Since his wife had been failing and the family was very poor , they decided not to bury him right away . |
| 18 | You know , this way erm , if it 's on the agenda as to who 's bringing what , you can kneecap people erm , if they decide not to bring it , or if they , if they do n't bring it . |
| 19 | However , they chose not to use their power to interfere too obviously with the policy decisions of the Labour Party and left Ramsay MacDonald to lead his parliamentary colleagues more or less as he wished . |
| 20 | Unlike advertising , however , they could be excluded from a definition of mass media because by twentieth-century standards they did not spread their messages quickly and simultaneously , nor to audiences that were large in relation to the communities within which they circulated . |
| 21 | One of the TUC 's two great general secretaries , George Woodcock — the other was Walter Citrine — warned them that they would lose influence if they did not reform themselves . |
| 22 | They did not miss them , they confided to Melinda . |
| 23 | In 1979 , about a half of the 830 respondents said that they did not evaluate their bibliographic instruction programmes . |
| 24 | ‘ They did not outclass us . |
| 25 | While policemen freely peddle these cherished beliefs in the lost standards of the ‘ British way of life ’ , they did not invent them . |
| 26 | They did not give their reasons , but Fr Morrow said that they had told him they had carefully studied the Law Lords ' decision to allow feeding tubes to be removed from Mr Bland and felt that they could not serve the summons . |
| 27 | Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought . |
| 28 | It did not seem to hit the kids hard but they did not show their feelings . |
| 29 | Only if they did not show their faces , only if they kept their heads low and lived in obscure corners , could they hope to pass at least in physical safety through life . |
| 30 | If Sussex people were greatly upset by the closure of the monasteries , they did not show it openly thereafter , and the county avoided the troubles of 1536 which affected the north of England . |