Example sentences of "they [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eyes of some fish enable them to see not only what is going on in the water around them but in the air above the surface . |
| 2 | It was important that she ring her parents to let them know not to expect her that day . |
| 3 | Budding engineers are going to face a situation where what they achieve practically receives the inadequate reward of a terminal examination which fails to let them demonstrate not only the full extent of their knowledge but also understanding of the processes involved . |
| 4 | oh they 're weird them , Joan got some of them has n't she ? |
| 5 | Although having them has not made their lives any easier , they have got immense enjoyment from them and would not be without them . |
| 6 | The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted . |
| 7 | Then ( somewhat sneakily ) I had them fed not 1,000 but 1,500 calories daily . |
| 8 | To watch them pretending not to know all the things about me which I take not the least trouble to conceal . |
| 9 | well they 're alright , but I mean you can tell they take the grease out of the kitchen , but , they 're a bit of a bind are n't they ? of all the cleaning and I mean I do n't see why the people who make them do n't sell the blimming proper filter to filter themselves instead we do n't have |
| 10 | But I , I need them do n't I ? |
| 11 | Do n't think Tech I think Pioneer do them do n't they ? |
| 12 | You see them do n't you ? |
| 13 | interrupting their continuity , making them play roles in which they no longer recognize themselves , making them betray not only commitments but their own substance … |
| 14 | For decades , those who lent money to them assumed not . |
| 15 | This makes them appear not just personally unhappy but it presents a negative impression to their hosts . |
| 16 | The primary role for researchers should be to work alongside practitioners and help them understand not only what clients are saying but help them think through the nature and impact of their interventions . |
| 17 | Those educationalists who deny children these opportunities are confining them to the ghetto , to a restricted discourse which will close to them access not only to the professions but also to leadership in national politics . |
| 18 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |
| 19 | That imposing such values might incite adolescents to rebel against them appears not to exercise him . |
| 20 | He alleged that Israel possessed more than 300 nuclear weapons , some of them targeted not only at Arab oil fields and cities but also against southern cities of the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Cos you 've got to do them have n't you ? |
| 22 | I have circulated the request to the various Regional Council service departments asking them to respond not later than 18 December 1992 . |
| 23 | In that how would they prefer not to work so hard |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They gleamed not only about Mama 's neck but tumbled almost as far as her waist — and could seem all different colours . |
| 27 | But they made not the least reply . |
| 28 | They asked not only about feeding , weaning and toileting practices , but also about such matters as the mothers ' ways of handling dependent and aggressive behaviour , their methods of disciplining , their feelings towards pregnancy , overt expression of affection , and adjustment in marriage . |
| 29 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 30 | In particular , do they affect not only the presentation but the substance of government decisions ? |