Example sentences of "and they do [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what we like to do but Pam and them do n't like |
| 2 | And they did n't leave the fumes behind them that an engine might have done . |
| 3 | no and they did n't pay much attention , they always seem intimidated of us |
| 4 | They called the shots while we were still tiny , and they did n't spring into crushed velvet bell-bottoms in 1966 , just because it was a happening thing to do . |
| 5 | They 're all here , and they did n't vote . |
| 6 | And they did n't complain ! ’ |
| 7 | They left the hospital in the morning , and they did n't reach the village until the following evening . |
| 8 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 9 | The dogs were fat and strong , and they did n't want to go on the ship . |
| 10 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 11 | His guys showed up from Washington and they did n't want to see shit . |
| 12 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 13 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 14 | and they did n't want to be scattered all over the earth so they built this er , he wanted to make , to make a name for themselves did n't they ? |
| 15 | and the state he was in and they did n't want to know did they ? |
| 16 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |
| 17 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 18 | and they did n't fit into life , did they ? |
| 19 | I do n't think they even thought they would need to do any other sizes and they did n't proportion them so that you could interpolate . |
| 20 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 21 | The only lingua franca this lot shared was English , and they did n't speak English . |
| 22 | And they did n't expect very much of me from my school reports and I thought , well if they did n't expect I you know I was n't capable of it . |
| 23 | When they were ten yards away they stopped talking , and they did n't start again till they were safely behind glass . |
| 24 | I 've never talked so much in my life and they were interested , they were , I got all sorts of things in , Britannicus and Henry VIII and The Broken Heart and The Winter 's Tale and feminine endings and they did n't stop me , they said go on — oh and Satan 's speech to Eve in the garden — I was in a place of my own — oh glory . " |
| 25 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 26 | And they did n't stop until he heaved and brought up a great deal of liquid into the bowl that Peggy was reluctantly holding . |
| 27 | And they did n't stop to pick up any hitchers either . |
| 28 | When he came out of hospital they fixed him up with a job in a parachute factory , but he 'd just finished the training period when the war ended , and they did n't think they 'd need so many parachutes for the next one . |
| 29 | and they heard this crack , and they did n't think much about it , just as , Rita said what you doing ? |
| 30 | So the implication of that study and it 's a rather astonishing one , although it fits exactly with , with the argument we 're developing is that because these , these women were living in very difficult circumstances , in prison , they were even more discriminating about the offspring they were actually and they did n't carry a single one to term that had a birth defect . |