Example sentences of "they [vb past] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 2 | Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed . |
| 3 | To crush their rivals , therefore , they sought not to limit the power of the Grand Prince but to gain influence over him by identifying themselves with the elevation of his personal authority . |
| 4 | At the local elections in May 1976 , the Conservatives won control of the council and on 7 June told the Secretary of State that they proposed not to implement the plans for the conversion of the five grammar schools into comprehensives and sixth-form colleges . |
| 5 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 6 | They promised not to speak to their wives of what the fairy had said . |
| 7 | They tried not to breathe as they listened . |
| 8 | Then , when they seemed not to hear him , he repeated it , stronger this time , commanding them . |
| 9 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 12 | If they 'd not intervened er then indeed the consequences would certainly have been a communist victory so the intervention was necessary to maintain that policy position . |
| 13 | if they 'd not done it . |
| 14 | They 'd not favoured local women for security reasons . |
| 15 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 16 | Oh well they said that 's because they 'd not got that section finished |
| 17 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 18 | Local commanders said the situation in Azici was difficult , but they vowed not to surrender the two towns . |
| 19 | By resigning Bornhausen broke a pact which all ministers had signed on Aug. 25 , according to which they undertook not to resign until an impeachment vote was held . |
| 20 | The castle was in such a state of disrepair that they decided not to spend money on it , and eventually it was demolished . |
| 21 | Oh , they decided not to give us quite so much work ? |
| 22 | ‘ They decided not to use it on this trip because opening it might disrupt the passengers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At half-past eleven the house was so quiet they decided not to wait until midnight . |
| 25 | Some time during the afternoon they decided not to go back but to stay overnight . |
| 26 | It was considered by Nether Wyresdale Parish Council at their recent meeting but they decided not to go ahead and place an order because the prices were far too expensive . |
| 27 | Having decided they had that power , they decided not to exercise it and made no order under that section . |
| 28 | They have missed it , they are n't on it , they decided not to come — ’ At the far end of the train a door swung open and a man climbed down and shouted for a porter . |
| 29 | I was supposed to have a meeting on with erm , a couple of guys from the British Coal Enterprise down in Middlesbrough with , but unfortunately again the weather caught all of them out and they decided not to come , but did n't occur to them to say they would n't come , so I sat down there for an hour , and eventually managed to find a phone number and get in contact and the guy was still there , and he said oh no I 'm not coming up . |
| 30 | They decided not to warn Terry when they wrote to him , and later Tony said quietly to Sarah , ‘ I was n't criticising Terry when I said that , Sar . |