Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 2 | Trade unions began , if slowly and unadventurously , to assert that they did n't give a hoot : their members were not going to run risks they did n't like . |
| 3 | Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like . |
| 4 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 5 | In each country , a random sample of the electorate were questioned about their attitudes towards the political process — their perceived ability to affect political change , their participation in various political activities , their attitude towards parties they did not support and so on . |
| 6 | They got to Ryan 's bedroom just in time to stop a bunch of kids they did n't even know putting his treasured copy of the Beatles White LP on the turntable . |
| 7 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 8 | My honourable friend from the front benches made the point about the gaps in er these regulations , they do n't cover Lloyds , they do n't cover pension schemes , pension funds they do n't cover banks which are domiciled er in the er in in the United States but er we also have the point which I made in the interjection to the minister that unless there 's a duty to detect fraud er er as well as report it , it 's really doubtful if the auditors can perform er the function . |
| 9 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 10 | They reckon the average French woman do n't change their knickers , they only change it every two days or something and all sorts they do n't shave . |
| 11 | Now there is plums they do n't want them . |
| 12 | And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern . |
| 13 | It is important to remember that it is not the spelling of individual words that you are trying to teach , but the basic spelling patterns , so that pupils can spell correctly words they have n't been taught but want to write . |
| 14 | Lawyers and judges talk to each other in ways the prisoner in the dock can not always understand ; doctors diagnose patients for medical students in a language which they know the patient will not follow ( though there are also valid scientific reasons for this ) ; and parents spell out words they do not want children to understand . |
| 15 | They think they have to win to gain self-esteem , in other words they do n't value themselves highly unless they are constantly winning or one up on other people . |
| 16 | 11 Do n't worry if you used some words they do n't know . |
| 17 | In other words they do n't want to . |
| 18 | Not all the editors are guilty : the volumes prepared by Busser , Guilmant , Hahn , Marty and Debussy , for instance , may not measure up to today 's scholarly standards , but in most respects they do not seriously misrepresent the composer 's intentions . |
| 19 | The conventional image , still current in some quarters , of the rehoused poor ‘ putting coal in the bath ’ is very sour in St Ann 's , because for all too many people it might be nice to have the option of putting the coal they ca n't afford in the baths they have n't got . |
| 20 | It 's very important that young people should read books they do n't want to read ; it would be a great pity if they did n't read the literature of the past . " |
| 21 | If they need to advertise their schools they do n't have enough students so it might not be that good |
| 22 | If chargers move through Fanatics they have not already encountered then they sustain more damage as they hit the deranged Goblins . |
| 23 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 24 | Ah gave him a clip roon the ear and tellt him and Sebastian no tae laugh at poor unfortunate incomers they do n't know any better . |
| 25 | Unlike the conventional heated rollers they do n't have any uncomfortable spikes — instead they are covered with a special light rubber material which has the capacity to grip , making them easy to use and much kinder to your hair . |
| 26 | you 've got the chance whereas in these countries they have n't , if you have n't got a democracy . |
| 27 | Against Elves you have to be careful of the fear rule , as Goblins fear units of Elves they do n't outnumber two to one . |
| 28 | He says that if people spend money in Supermarkets they have n't got any left for smaller shops . |
| 29 | By their combination they prevent the master employing any journeymen they do not approve of , who as they say is not a fair man ; and all journeymen must ask the constable of the shop , for the time being , ( an officer appointed by the combination ) for work before they ask the master . |
| 30 | It is submitted that in these circumstances they do not do well enough with the written word . |