Example sentences of "they [vb past] not [verb] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |
| 2 | We have not , for example , looked at government training schemes because until very recently they did not feature very prominently in government policies . |
| 3 | They did not seem very interested in business , though they ran up big drinks bills for us and would occasionally ruffle our hair or squeeze our balls with an experienced touch , weighing us up , as it were . |
| 4 | ‘ I sat in on the Jockey Club working party that drew up these latest proposals Their idea was to bring down the number of strokes and they did not seem very interested in what we , the jockeys , had to say . |
| 5 | On second thoughts he also sent one of his aides to fetch blankets as well , for some of the ladies did not seem to be very decently attired and , although they did not look very enticing , he still did not want them to give his men ideas . |
| 6 | Ideologically they did not get very far . |
| 7 | They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak . |
| 8 | He had even gone to the Wimbledon police , but they had not seemed very interested . |