Example sentences of "they [verb] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was important that she ring her parents to let them know not to expect her that day .
2 Although having them has not made their lives any easier , they have got immense enjoyment from them and would not be without them .
3 To watch them pretending not to know all the things about me which I take not the least trouble to conceal .
4 well they 're alright , but I mean you can tell they take the grease out of the kitchen , but , they 're a bit of a bind are n't they ? of all the cleaning and I mean I do n't see why the people who make them do n't sell the blimming proper filter to filter themselves instead we do n't have
5 I bet you feel like a now , give them in when they ca n't truss them du n no .
6 In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets .
7 That imposing such values might incite adolescents to rebel against them appears not to exercise him .
8 In that how would they prefer not to work so hard
9 The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all .
10 Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed .
11 So they tend not to thrive in dry centrally heated rooms .
12 Repetition is something many students avoid at all costs , and in their early music they tend not to repeat a single bar in an entire composition .
13 Although they receive notification from education of the intention to assess a child , they are uncertain of their role , and so , with other pressing priorities , they tend not to give it high priority .
14 They tend not to explore what difference it makes who takes part in the public-policy process , or else they assume that the beneficiaries of public policy can simply be " read-off " from information about group participation because of uncomplicated assumptions about all groups being able to participate in order to advance their own interest .
15 ‘ The airlines all know , of course , but they tend not to make it public for commercial reasons . ’
16 Of course , there have been just as many happy moments making Aspel and Company as crises — the trouble is that they tend not to make such good stories !
17 And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet .
18 ‘ Partly common or garden jealousy , I think , and partly because they tend not to get involved in all the politics that goes on . ’
19 Because generally speaking … when they get a bee in their bonnet , they tend not to write letters .
20 Firstly , they tend not to originate from a real typographic font but are often variations on an original while , secondly , being bitmaps they can not be scaled .
21 What they tend not to tell you is how well a given PC stacks up against others …
22 No , but , even , even some of those erm the only thing is they tend to get work and they tend not to tell you they 've done it .
23 erm Well the schools communicate , but they tend not to tell the parents the obvious things .
24 However , lack of cover leads to the birds feeling insecure so they tend not to stray too far from the hen house .
25 When adults get upset about someone 's behaviour , they tend not to confront the protagonist , but withdraw into themselves .
26 Furthermore , they tend not to maintain a clear distinction between the speaker 's intended meaning on the one hand , and the message used to convey that meaning to a listener on the other .
27 To crush their rivals , therefore , they sought not to limit the power of the Grand Prince but to gain influence over him by identifying themselves with the elevation of his personal authority .
28 At the local elections in May 1976 , the Conservatives won control of the council and on 7 June told the Secretary of State that they proposed not to implement the plans for the conversion of the five grammar schools into comprehensives and sixth-form colleges .
29 Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting .
30 They promised not to speak to their wives of what the fairy had said .
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