Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women can drive cars , taxis , buses , trucks , diggers , lawn-mowers — that sort of thing , though in the West they mostly do n't ( except cars ) because of tradition . ’ |
| 2 | They mostly do not adequately safeguard pupils against a casual , almost literalist , understanding of symbol . |
| 3 | They perhaps do n't eat much . |
| 4 | at the end and they perhaps do n't bother quite so much and |
| 5 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |
| 6 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 7 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 8 | If a company called Joe Bloggs and Company that were from a back street … came with a similar proposal and they obviously had n't got two ha'pennies to rub together and certainly were n't gon na employ a chemist or anything like that , then … you would view that as a completely different proposition . |
| 9 | Meanwhile I noticed my friends paddling by smiling , laughing and waving at me as they obviously did not realise why I was screaming as loud as I possibly could . |
| 10 | ‘ They obviously did n't want me , so I wo n't apply , ’ he said . |
| 11 | They obviously did n't mind the isolation . |
| 12 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 13 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 14 | but erm I , I mean I , they obviously did n't say oh no that 'll be a rotten idea , so |
| 15 | I do n't think they s th th they obviously did n't see it in , in quite the terms that |
| 16 | They obviously did n't like it , there was nothing dif , there was n't definitely said but there was some |
| 17 | they obviously have n't worked . |
| 18 | And look they 've put them on the bottom , instead of doing the top ones first , they obviously have n't . |
| 19 | ‘ We are very upset they obviously have not listened to us at all , ’ she said after the policy committee meeting . |
| 20 | They do n't look real , anyway ; they are all thin , spotless , and they obviously do n't do anything practical ( like walk around , for instance ) . |
| 21 | They obviously do n't mean anything to you , so it looks increasingly as if this whole business must have been a dreadful mistake . |
| 22 | They obviously do n't have any foxes in SW France ! |
| 23 | And they obviously do n't think caused by pressure . |
| 24 | They obviously do n't like him do they ? |
| 25 | But they obviously do n't pinch them do they cos |
| 26 | They obviously do n't teach you manners in Somerset . |
| 27 | Many of the shops are branches of multiple stores and , though their managers sometimes take part , they obviously do not have the same interest in it as the traders who were born and bred in the town . |
| 28 | He suggests I should take responsibility for the actions of abusing men — that I should feel the guilt they obviously do not . |
| 29 | But they all did n't come at one time , they were always had new ones coming again . |
| 30 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |