Example sentences of "they [adv] do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the people who are running them often do not know of each other 's existence , or if they do , they find it difficult to cooperate with one another . |
| 2 | What they perhaps did not realise at the time was that France was not prepared to compromise . |
| 3 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 4 | Meanwhile I noticed my friends paddling by smiling , laughing and waving at me as they obviously did not realise why I was screaming as loud as I possibly could . |
| 5 | Many of the shops are branches of multiple stores and , though their managers sometimes take part , they obviously do not have the same interest in it as the traders who were born and bred in the town . |
| 6 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 7 | However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds . |
| 8 | However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds . |
| 9 | Some have become prepared to forgo promotion if it means too much disruption of home and family and if they personally do not want the commuting life . |
| 10 | SO Iran-contra did not happen much , except to certain people ; and even those people often felt caught up in events that were exceptionally odd and different , adventures they might have watched on television , and in which they especially did not expect to find themselves . |
| 11 | They just did not matter . |
| 12 | ‘ They just did not get lost , ’ said Pion . |
| 13 | Before going he had told us that firstly , all his carp had been caught on sweetcorn and bread and although fishing with boilies on one rod all week he had been able to get a take , in his words they just did not seem to eat them ; secondly , although there were plenty of carp on the surface they did not seem the least bit interested in floaters , and thirdly he was at a loss to know what one needed to do to put a cat on the bank . |
| 14 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 15 | They are not lazy , they just do not think in the free-flowing goal-oriented way that the ‘ butterflies ’ do . |
| 16 | They just do not taste as nice . |
| 17 | Somehow they just do not look right and blend . |
| 18 | Many of the families I have worked with will ask , for example , how to engage the services of an undertaker because they just do not know . |
| 19 | So you know there the recoveries are very good , very welcomed by us , but basically we 're two years now since this happened erm pensioners have been suffering extreme mental turmoil for that period , quite frankly they 're , they 're utterly confused , they do n't understand what 's happening and to ask those sort of people to rely and put their s their , their whole future security on the outcomings of out of court settlements where claims are made for two hundred million and there 's a thirty two million you know they 're getting totally confused and I think that that they just do not know what 's happening , they , they want long-term security , we 're now getting an increasing number of people who 've retired since the schemes were wound up and are therefore getting a hundred per cent of their , their money from the company fund , which we 're told is going to run out in two-and-a-half years time . |
| 20 | They generally did not promote the sale of fires through showrooms or canvassers , and in the Eastern Board even banned their sale for several years until the peak capacity shortage eased . |
| 21 | People who claimed that they generally did not dream , when woken from REM sleep , did in fact report dreams , but they were particularly prone to forgetting them — if woken after the REM period was over , they recalled even fewer instances of dreaming than those who claimed regularly to recall dreams in the morning.6 In another study generally confirming these findings it was also noticed that " non-dreamers " tended to report that they were awake and thinking when woken from REM sleep . |
| 22 | They generally do not expect a short-term return . |
| 23 | Individuals who have inherited a single sickle gene are said to have sickle cell trait , whereby they generally do not present any clinical symptoms of the disease and may be unaware of their condition . |
| 24 | They may provide a comprehensive guide to the reference literature , but they generally do not attempt to guide the user through the literature either selectively or critically . |
| 25 | Their inability to concentrate or order their thoughts means that they generally do not learn much at school , even though they may be quite intelligent . |
| 26 | If they still do not pay , the council can apply to the magistrates court for a summons to be served . |
| 27 | As one who admires much of what WTA has done and enjoys watching the best women players compete against each other , because the entertainment value they produce can often be tremendous , I was sad to see that apparently they still do not appreciate how relatively well off they are under the present set-up and how much they could stand to lose from open warfare in the game . |
| 28 | They still do not concede that we are doing nothing to force any GP to spend less time with his patients . |
| 29 | If then they still do not help , bring all your people and let them stay in the office until it is done . |
| 30 | In contrast they still do not have a national knock-out cup , although one is promised for 1993–94 . |