Example sentences of "people do [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The national liberal politician , Johannes von Miquel , wrote that ‘ the suggested constitution could not be compared with the Swiss or American model ’ , adding for good measure that ‘ great peoples do not copy ’ . |
| 2 | There is increasing evidence that the original island peoples did not migrate eastwards from continental Asia , but evolved independently for millennia amongst the isolated atolls of the south Pacific — resulting in a different turn of mind . |
| 3 | In Kufra , in 1979 , some people did not pay their contribution to the small boy who visited the houses , so their shaikh went in person . |
| 4 | I could imagine her discomfiture as a natural approval of this evidence of my religious feeling vied with her conviction that normal people did not go to church unless compelled by the Sabbath . |
| 5 | People did not go to a hospital to be cured but to be killed or maimed . |
| 6 | There were concerts in the town , of course , but poor people did not go to concerts . |
| 7 | It was n't that people did not spread false rumours . |
| 8 | Those kind of people did not drift through their days in a bored and aimless way , as she of ten did . |
| 9 | If all British people did not feel deeply hurt by this ‘ there 's something wrong with you … ’ |
| 10 | The Home Office appears to have no clear idea why two million voters are not registered , nor why 11 million people did not vote in 1987 . |
| 11 | It is clear that Lenin 's references to ‘ primitive democracy ’ and the delegation of state functions to ordinary people did not mean that he thought there would be no place for administration in a socialist state . |
| 12 | O.G.S. Crawford refused a paid advertisement for the book in the journal Antiquity , his objection centring around the view that prehistoric people did not walk in straight lines , as all the undoubted prehistoric roads were winding . |
| 13 | Pace seemed to have slowed up ; people did not walk but drifted ; sound was muted , mopped up by space and carpeting . |
| 14 | Before she could comment he made the point that people did not switch off anger once they had extricated themselves from the risk of further suffering , especially not if they had leisure to reflect on injustice . |
| 15 | This was an important line of argument which showed that many French people did not relish the idea of losing their independence to European bodies . |
| 16 | In the latter local people did not perceive themselves to be involved in assessing need and planning strategies . |
| 17 | Generally speaking , people did not move very far . |
| 18 | The second question , asking whether dreaming is accompanied by flaccid paralysis , was agreed with by a surprising 48 respondents , although these people did not show themselves to be well informed about the other questions . |
| 19 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 20 | But Indonesia , in common with Vesuvius and almost all volcanic areas in the world , is located in the middle of an intensely active seismic zone , so earthquakes in the area were far from uncommon , and the local people did not attach much special significance to this latest bout of tremors . |
| 21 | It had become ‘ painfully evident ’ that the majority of people did not possess the merits of ‘ Capable Citizens … |
| 22 | Before the fears of the 1997 Chinese takeover began to mount , most people did not bother to change their registered status . |
| 23 | He claimed that complaints were up but nobody ever thought of complaining when the Labour party was in power because there was not a proper procedure , and in many cases the service was so bad that people did not bother . |
| 24 | People did not stay the same . |
| 25 | The basic nature of people did not change . |
| 26 | If people did not exercise their rights , that was no fault of the law : |
| 27 | These country people did not love bishops , the paraphernalia of church hierarchy . |
| 28 | The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 30 | Many people did not realise that there are different kinds of grammar , and that conventions in the use of language keep changing . |