Example sentences of "[that] they do n't [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was surprised to notice that they did n't make for either of London 's airports ; rather they seemed to be flying west into the rapidly darkening sky . |
| 2 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The terrifying thing was that they did n't speak . |
| 5 | It stopped so that they did n't miss the conversation . |
| 6 | No one in their history had ever said to them that they did n't want to be famous , ’ says Gedge . |
| 7 | And they insisted that they did n't want more drink simply because they 'd been drinking but because they just , well , wanted it . |
| 8 | IBM turned its first Unix system , the RT , into a child of the ghetto and told 90% of its customers that they did n't want it , it was n't for them . |
| 9 | Yes erm , it was very obvious from the word go that they did n't want us . |
| 10 | Terry and Tom said that they did n't want any food and when they asked Brian , he refused to answer . |
| 11 | After all the tubes had gone my family came to see her , before that they did n't want to come and see her . |
| 12 | He then said that they did n't want an understanding with the United States , because they know that this was impossible ( sic ) . |
| 13 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 14 | ‘ That they did n't want to struggle ? ’ |
| 15 | Now all is quite clear in the consultations , certainly the one we have with the , the heads , whilst that they did n't want to continue the previous policy of expanding their tradition by increasing class sizes . |
| 16 | Despite the elderly couple repeatedly telling salesmen Eric Stewart that they did n't want any windows he continued his talk and demonstration until 11pm . |
| 17 | Yes , casual work and when some of these casuals felt that they did n't want to stop there two days , they used to tell the authorities that they had got promise of work at , at Yarmouth and and could we go soon , you see . |
| 18 | What that they did n't trade on a Sunday ? |
| 19 | In those dark days I was that uncomfortable mixture of martyr and guilty inadequate , which made me alternate between the guilt of holding people back and the fury that they did n't offer to stop without being asked . |
| 20 | and odder still , if they knew , that they did n't ban it . |
| 21 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 22 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 23 | ‘ At one point things got out of hand and we had to organise a group of MPs a Make-up Patrol crew to follow the actors around to see that they did n't eat anything or do anything that would affect the prosthetic face gear . ’ |
| 24 | Yes , I think we have to take any situation like this , not just the major ones like war , but any situation that we come across and use it as a real opportunity for learning , and maybe for adults to be able to do the things that they did n't do when they were children , which is why now we often respond as child in these situations . |
| 25 | I could see that they did n't expect them to have much effect . |
| 26 | Strange that they did n't hurt , but perhaps that was because the man was dead . |
| 27 | ‘ I just hope it was quick and that they did n't suffer … ’ |
| 28 | I rang Transend to ask about a registered copy , but they informed me that they did n't register that game , but that I should just write out cheque for the amount a cross out the £ and pout $ . |
| 29 | I am not surprised that they did n't tell me about it ; we had very little money in our house . |
| 30 | I have also seen written applications for the CID ridiculed by those inside , and listened to the expressions of disbelief that these naïve applicants were ‘ so short of shillings that they did n't realise that admission was by invitation only ’ . |