Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DECADES make convenient units of time for historians , sociologists and pundits of every stripe , but the people who live and work through them do n't share the same enthusiasm for tying everything into bundles or stopping precisely at midnight on December 31 . |
| 2 | Cos you can only use them up to about four I would think cos other , other than that they get a bit too big for them do n't they ? he could do with a little slide in the garden |
| 3 | The incidence found was probably an underestimate of true community incidence as the protocol did not pick up those people in whom , for whatever reason , the clinicians caring for them did not measure the serum electrolyte values . |
| 4 | The remaining four had all been backstage at the relevant time , or could have been , but the motives Charles had managed to dredge up for them did n't survive close scrutiny . |
| 5 | Cos that 's what Margaret stopped paying her paying for them did n't she June ? |
| 6 | I asked for them did n't I ? |
| 7 | in fact the girl who did the mailing for them did n't do it properly so in fact it 's unlikely to happen erm they asked me because I know that since she 's now leaving the Vice-Principal through network erm and and they were thinking of getting something together like that , I did n't write this that 's not my writing but just let me tell you I do n't write a twenty- four clock , twenty-four hour clock with full stops in it |
| 8 | It is likely that some degree of unity could have been achieved between them had not Mrs Webb become convinced that the division was irreconcilable and determined to make every effort to bring her proposals to fruition . |
| 9 | The affectionate bond that built up between them did not go unnoticed either by Prince Charles nor Mannakee 's colleagues . |
| 10 | They sang every song they knew , which between them did not add up to very many songs . |
| 11 | ‘ It gets particularly fraught when one of them does n't come home and the other knows they have a new partner . ’ |
| 12 | That one of them does n't really love the other ; that they love one another a certain amount but not enough ? |
| 13 | A weakness in any of them does not mean that faith is illegitimate but that it is an easy prey for doubt , as later testing may show . |
| 14 | One person 's reception of them does not reduce the ability of others to receive them . |
| 15 | You would have thought some of them had n't eaten for days , but then perhaps they had n't . |
| 16 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 17 | Half of them had n't even been thought of , especially microwaves anyway . |
| 18 | We certainly felt , from all the staring faces that met us wherever we went , that many of them had n't seen any ‘ foreign friends ’ before . |
| 19 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |
| 20 | Most of them had not understood Blackberry 's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it . |
| 21 | Some of them had not attended school very regularly before . |
| 22 | Coordinators had to acquire skills in leadership and in handling people and ideas which the majority of them had not developed in their previous jobs . |
| 23 | Floy said , very carefully , ‘ Could you show us the route ? ’ and Fenella looked up , as if , thought Caspar , she had heard something in Floy 's voice that the rest of them had not heard . |
| 24 | If one of them had not been riding a white horse I would never have noticed them . |
| 25 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some of them did not flower too well in confined conditions and others , like the Double Yellow , proved intolerant of London 's smoke . |
| 28 | Most of them did not differ greatly from most other grammar schools , which also ( of course ) enrolled fee-payers . |
| 29 | Most of them did not escape from wartime secrecy and were not properly developed until the war was over . |
| 30 | Sadly many of them did not show quite the high standard of dress they expect of their pupils . |