Example sentences of "people [verb] n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People did n't speak to you . |
| 2 | It 's a useful way of getting a perspective on the present , to realize that people think and feel in such different ways , in totally alien ways , that are completely unsympathetic , which is why feminism is an interesting development , because the ability to read something written in a totally patriarchal tradition , and to make the sympathetic adjustment , giving him his due , recognizing that he could n't have thought what you think , because people did n't think like that then … . |
| 3 | The idea , too , that ‘ people did n't think like that then ’ is significant ; we do not know , of course , how many people at a certain point in a history were ( for example ) feminists , who were prevented from writing about their views , or whose writings have been forgotten or lost . |
| 4 | Nice people did n't think about such things , which was why child-abuse and wife-beating went frequently unremarked . |
| 5 | ‘ Several people did n't think I was seriously going to take part , but it was really good fun , ’ she laughed . |
| 6 | People did n't realise it was an ideal . |
| 7 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 8 | used to have them in the pub and then to play it back and people did n't realise it was there voice you know . |
| 9 | Things 'd be much easier if people did n't make it so complicated . |
| 10 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 11 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 12 | Labour had taken the election manifesto of 1983 — the so-called ‘ longest suicide note in history ’ — and rewritten it on the basis of what it thought the people did n't want . |
| 13 | When they first came to this country — like my mum , when she first came she said she could n't find a place to live because people did n't want black people on their premises . |
| 14 | It was bad cos there was no money , no money about at all , nineteen twenty six strike and what have you and no there was no money at all so people did n't want their babies did they ? |
| 15 | She says in Belgium they 'd give it scraps that people did n't want . ’ |
| 16 | But , the banks and building societies ha have found that people did n't want independent advice , because they did n't ask for it . |
| 17 | The people did n't want to hear the message , and took out their frustration on Jeremiah . |
| 18 | People did n't want it , were n't the money about , investments I suppose . |
| 19 | People did n't want it . |
| 20 | You had to buy too many fonts , and it was too expensive , and people did n't want to by linotype matrices of that size . |
| 21 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 22 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 23 | He was always surprised to discover that other people did n't feel this way about him . |
| 24 | erm lots of advertisements produced by Tampax , erm about worry and off days and this was because during that time menstruation was one of these taboo subjects that people did n't talk about . |
| 25 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 26 | No i er I do n't know people did n't go out of their depth I do n't think , they , it was half a crown or five bob and , and they used to pay , maybe pay it back in bits and bobs . |
| 27 | People did n't expect such violence and brutality . |
| 28 | People did n't set the same cost value on time as they |
| 29 | People did n't change much . |
| 30 | I mean , people did n't pay money just out of , you know , loyalty , completely . |