Example sentences of "their [noun pl] do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their views do n't matter , because they had turned their backs on God . |
| 2 | ‘ The difference in their ages does not seem unduly large to me , ’ Wendell interposed . |
| 3 | Fred was a good husband to her and the difference in their ages did not matter to Carrie . |
| 4 | None of the band are known for their excessive cordiality towards figures within the business , but unlike Charman , their misgivings did not manifest themselves in the form of ill temper . |
| 5 | Furthermore , as these college-based insiders stress , their essays do not represent police college views or those of the Home Office ; and both Thackrah ( 1985 ) and his publisher , James Tindall , take pains to ensure from the outset that we are aware than any views expressed in the book are ‘ those of individual contributors , and not those of the college , the Home Office , or [ even ] the police service ’ . |
| 6 | Conjugate quantities such as the phase and amplitude of an oscillation can not be simultaneously measured with arbitrary precision because their operators do not commute . |
| 7 | The products of regulatory genes are only involved in regulating other genes and their products do not serve any other function . |
| 8 | Recent authors , mentioned above , distinguish between Stein 's German action and Walter 's Viennese action because in detail their escapements do not function in quite the same way . |
| 9 | Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to . |
| 10 | area ‘ comprising some dozen streets adjacent to the King 's Bench debtors ’ prison' where prisoners ‘ who can raise large fees from which their creditors do not derive any benefit , are permitted to reside ’ . |
| 11 | Some companies had suffered because their policies did not suit the King 's diplomacy . |
| 12 | Under the Act , passed in 1973 , federal agencies must consult with the Interior Department to ensure that their activities do not threaten endangered species . |
| 13 | Since noble interests were not always uniform , deference to their wishes did not dictate all the Tsar 's major decisions , but it did inform every sphere , including the fiscal , commercial , and , very often , the tariff policy of the State . |
| 14 | A banking scandal developed during March when it was revealed that more than 300 current members of the House of Representatives had abused the House bank by writing cheques which their accounts did not have sufficient funds to honour . |
| 15 | Even as he was preparing to uproot millions of peasants and to destroy their homes , Ceauşescu praised their patriotism in terms ringing with irony : ‘ In the toughest times , their forefathers did not desert the land where they were born , but in brotherhood with it , with the mountains , fields , rivers and great woods , they unflinchingly remained in these parts , defending their being , their right to free existence . ’ |
| 16 | The trouble is their sons do n't want to know ; they 're not prepared to live that sort of life but they ca n't find other work . |
| 17 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |
| 18 | Other mags I 've looked at give this centrefold pull-out picture , yet their books do not give the great info like yours . |
| 19 | Their husbands do n't want them to do anything which is not passive , and in the end women end up believing the same . |
| 20 | In the 1940s wives were still bitterly resentful of the fact that their husbands did not seem to realise that they needed leisure . |
| 21 | But biogas programmes will only create new problems if their designers do not take into account local economic and social conditions ( New Scientist , vol 97 , p 377 ) . |
| 22 | Nice people become guilty people , cruel people , unhappy people , trapped in belief structures their temperaments do n't agree with , taught peculiar beliefs in school , threatened by hell and afflicted by superstition . |
| 23 | I 'll make sure their heads do n't get on their chests . |
| 24 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 25 | Fand and Liban came behind , but their spears did n't light the way , only set confusing reflections in the walls . |
| 26 | Palestinian leaders argued that their fighters did not constitute a militia , but were an army engaged in a war with Israel and its proxy South Lebanon Army . |
| 27 | When women are told , ‘ Just do your breathing and do n't let those doctors interfere with you ’ , my experience is that they are very bitter when their labours do n't turn out the way the NCT has predicted . ’ |
| 28 | Some pressure groups the UK Genetics Forum , the Green Alliance , and Compassion in World Farming are already ferociously well-informed , but they 're small and their voices do n't carry . |
| 29 | They were objects of interest , to a degree even their crews did not understand . |
| 30 | The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true . |