Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] they did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who had read Hans Christian Andersen 's ‘ The Little Mermaid ’ would know that they did not and could not — not unless they married a mortal , as with Lúthien . |
| 2 | Do n't know that they did any , Victorian |
| 3 | ‘ Then let's trust that they did n't see you . |
| 4 | Barons could most readily huff and stomp when they did indeed own their papers , rather than being chairmen , liable to be sacked by their directors . |
| 5 | Do you honestly think that they did all ? |
| 6 | Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried . |
| 7 | Following a low fat diet in the long term would certainly ensure that they did not regain all they had lost so far . |
| 8 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 9 | Many severely handicapped children do die at an early age through natural causes , but at least the parents can feel that they did everything they could for the child when it was alive . |
| 10 | Ask them what they would do if they did know the answers . |
| 11 | alright if it does n't rain actually so it would n't matter if they did n't have treads on er treads on the tyres if it 's dry it does n't really matter you just go round slicks and |
| 12 | She says she hoped things would improve but they did n't so she tried to start a new life . |
| 13 | The point he missed was that they did not tax because they did not need to tax ; he despised the Scottish crown for its failure to collect the infamous taille , but this had , after all , been introduced to France only because of the need to finance military expeditions . |
| 14 | Servants from these houses regularly flushed out the sewers with the water they used to wash clothes so the streets did not reek as they did in Southwark . |
| 15 | This is one of the things I want you to se see today and this wonderful film I was gon na show today and I hope I 'll show next week , third time lucky , they actually interview the wives , the polygynous wives of of some erm erm guy in Africa , some African erm and they to them they actually ask the wives , why do you , you know why are you married to this man and they say well he feeds us , you know th that 's why we 're married to him , he gives us food and he 's apparently got five this particular man they interviewed , three of them were active and two of them were elderly , and the three active wives are quite open about the fact that this man 's a good provider and therefore they stay with him , but they , they would n't in the case of Australian Aborigines , they would n't stay if they did n't get fed and they only get fed because he 's a good hunter and to be a good hunter you need to go on good terms of men and that 's how it works . |
| 16 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 17 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 18 | I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect . |
| 19 | Osman 's followers would have to get together ; and Owen would see that they did not find that very easy . |
| 20 | One must realize that they did n't travel . |
| 21 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 22 | Low-paid white-collar couples who are buying their own homes did not claim because they did not realise they were eligible . |
| 23 | all we could suggest that they did w w |
| 24 | One would not suggest that they did not hold the Muftilik , but one can suggest that they held a very different kind of Muftilik from that held by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 25 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 26 | shared the concern and felt that the Institute could be pushed aside by the larger companies who were already carrying out their own teaching and might decide that they did not need the Institute or its standards . |
| 27 | An enormous variety of reasons , and by and large not the sort of reasons that advertisers would hope that they did give . |
| 28 | Raymond : Because they would die if they did n't have water . |
| 29 | And I think well just think how many people would die if they did n't have the transfusions ! |
| 30 | I 'd collapse if they did ! |