Example sentences of "they do [not/n't] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did not have to search far for the Bishop 's secretary : as soon as he saw the pageant wagon , he bore down on it . |
| 2 | We can guess that both the lords and the village community found a uniform system , in which all the tenants had land of their own , and all worked to till the lord 's domain , had its advantages ; in particular , that the lords preferred the service of serfs , whose lives they did not have to organize in detail , to that of slaves , who were dependent on them for food and clothing and a roof over their heads . |
| 3 | The tide of ideas on the Left was flowing in the Communists ' favour and they did not have to resort to the often artificial tactics of " penetration " used since the early 1920s . |
| 4 | They did not have to wait long before Shildon emerged and told them . |
| 5 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 6 | They did not have to take on board the Jewish ceremonial Law . |
| 7 | As Professor Landes has pointed out , the tolerance of non-factory employers depended on the fact that they did not have to take the running or fixed costs of machinery into account . |
| 8 | But the usual method was to take to the desert : they did not have to go far to become nomads . |
| 9 | But shortly before the general election , local authorities throughout Britain were told they did not have to go ahead and that a second period of consultation was to be held . |
| 10 | Poor people preferred to hold their funerals on Sundays , when they did not have to work and when public-houses were open . |
| 11 | He said ministers were guilty of ‘ an attitude of mind ’ which meant they think they did not have to bother about the public . |
| 12 | Chelsea are not a particularly good team and they did not have to play well to win this often tedious match . |
| 13 | They did not have to isolate zinc metal to do this but used the cementation process described on page 76 . |
| 14 | They did not have to pay the usual £20 a tablet and both took one . |
| 15 | They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent . |
| 16 | However , some members of his family were glad , because it meant they did not have to produce cattle . |
| 17 | They did not have to qualify in any other way , and neither will their successors who , like them , will be peers until they die . |
| 18 | They did not have to face protests and reforms in the middle of the first millennium B.C. In Egypt a morality of silence prevailed , and Mesopotamia — whether Assyria or Chaldaea — seems to have been bent on conquering the others rather than on criticizing herself . |
| 19 | The Jews had to accept the fact that Gentiles could become Christians and that in so doing they did not have to come to Christ via Jewish cultural conditioning . |
| 20 | Perhaps they did not have to ply their trade on the streets . |
| 21 | They did not have to suffer a very low-calorie diet or one that involved eating expensive and unusual foods . |
| 22 | But proof positive they did not have to supply . |
| 23 | These included exemptions granted to the new water companies by the DoE , so that they did not have to comply with EC rules . |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , they knew they did n't have to dissaude you . |
| 25 | Luckily , they did n't have to search long or far . |
| 26 | They did n't have to wait long to find out where she was . |
| 27 | And they did n't have to wait long , did they ? |
| 28 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 29 | They did n't have to go anywhere . |
| 30 | so they did n't have to go through this bit |