Example sentences of "they do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They did not speak of permanent hostilities between sections or lineages , but they did speak of peaces between lineages . |
| 32 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 33 | They did not speak again until he was dressed and ready to leave . |
| 34 | For a long time they did not speak . |
| 35 | They did not speak . |
| 36 | At first they did not speak to each other . |
| 37 | They did not speak until they came out into a busy , noisy street . |
| 38 | They did not speak of what lay behind France 's bitter enmity , though it was always present in their minds , a spot too sore to touch on lightly . |
| 39 | 6 people were removed from the country when they signed a paper agreeing to leave the country voluntarily , however due to the fact that they did not speak English they were unaware of what they were signing . |
| 40 | In fact they did not speak French either , they spoke a sort of fractured German . |
| 41 | Not only did the other men not speak ; they did not move . |
| 42 | They did not move . |
| 43 | They did not move . |
| 44 | Still they did not move until , on hearing a more familiar tone , loud , irritable , from the hall , ‘ I said , ‘ COME ON , boys , ’ ’ they scrambled . |
| 45 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
| 46 | He shook them , but they did not move . |
| 47 | They did not move like shadows ; they did not shift and blur . |
| 48 | A little ripple went over them , and she braced herself , but otherwise they did not move . |
| 49 | When asked if the police would continue to charge the travellers if they did not move on , he replied : ‘ I presume so . ’ |
| 50 | They did not engage in an abstruse discussion of the technicalities of Trinitarianism but saw it as a paradigm of the religious experience of God . |
| 51 | Although police in subsequent statements inclined towards a simple robbery motive ( the killer stole Fr Men 's briefcase ) , they did not rule out a political motive . |
| 52 | Mr Straw said this involved ‘ veiled threats if they did not cough up and clear promises of honours if they did ’ . |
| 53 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 54 | They did not squeal and race about in panic , but allowed themselves to be driven through the house and down the steep ramp to the underground slaughter-house without protest . |
| 55 | They did not shake hands . |
| 56 | They did not miss them , they confided to Melinda . |
| 57 | They simply rebuilt the fallen walls , and carried on with their normal efficient and highly organized lives ; they did not associate the earthquake with Vesuvius , and there was no particular reason why they should . |
| 58 | This raised three different problems ( or opportunities , as we say in marketing ) : overall , the quality of the stores was higher than expected by people used to Allied Carpets ' promotional style ; people were not fully aware of the extent of the offer — they did not associate Allied with furniture and beds ; and , in a market where independent retailers are still the dominant factor , they had low expectations of Allied 's standards of personal service . |
| 59 | They did not answer at once ; they were too surprised . |
| 60 | People lived and died there ; they did not grow old there , because no one could live for very long in the Robemaker 's hands . |