Example sentences of "they [verb] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 2 | They recorded not one instance of drinking or of thirst in a dream . |
| 3 | Now people will listen to you and they 'll have had , had their own personal goals but they feel not worthy of expressing it anyway because they think , well I 've had this idea , I 'm probably up the creek , and they never say anything . |
| 4 | They pleaded not guilty . |
| 5 | When master-manufacturers talked of the danger of communism which lurked behind any limitation of the absolute right of employers to hire and fire at will , they meant not social revolution but merely that the right of property and the right of domination were indistinguishable , and a bourgeois society must go to the dogs once interference with property rights was permitted . |
| 6 | They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt . |
| 7 | They did not all put it quite as bluntly as William 11 , but there existed a European society of kings which had real importance for its members . |
| 8 | Through conversation , it was soon realised that although consultants welcomed the concept of the educational supervisor theoretically , they did not all wish to be burdened with this increased responsibility . |
| 9 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 11 | I mean seven years continual dredging for seven years apart from a month they in dock and you were taking out eight hundred tonne every hopper load and some days you were doing five loads and sometimes four loads , was a lot of mud we dumped so much mud out at erm near the Cork Lightship , now you would think they would level theirself off would n't you and if they did n't that up . |
| 12 | Besides , those old Junker — ’ she was about to say all those Junker but in deference to Omi did not — ‘ they did n't all look nice . |
| 13 | They did n't all let go at once but only when they could hold on no longer . |
| 14 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 15 | She wondered why they did n't all run together in the middle . |
| 16 | They did n't all desert their girlfriends when they became pregnant , some have remained to provide crucial emotional and practical support . |
| 17 | The fact that no one laughed out loud at this remark suggested to Charles that they did n't all share his view of the man . |
| 18 | Well they did n't this year . |
| 19 | But now I think they do n't many so it 's not you know this up to sort of like thirteen they 've been taught constantly once to that age . |
| 20 | In Austria , they do n't absolute in the , I mean I know nothing about their industrial places at all . |
| 21 | mind you the scriptures say they do n't definite your sting and , can you explain that ? |
| 22 | But they do n't that . |
| 23 | Once you have become mentally adjusted to the countdown display it becomes very logical and you will wonder why they do n't all work this way ! |
| 24 | But they do n't all work . |
| 25 | ‘ The Thing did say they do n't all grow to twelve feet , ’ said Angalo , in the silence . |
| 26 | But , then , all kids have heroes ; they do n't all become rock stars or footballers , though . |
| 27 | I 'm supposed to investigate them to find out why they do n't all fall together . ’ |
| 28 | If you look carefully at the pictures , you will see each of the four children more than once , but they do n't all appear in all the pictures . |
| 29 | After all , there are a lot of divisions in the police — they do n't all wear uniforms and some do n't even shave . |
| 30 | Said Robert : ‘ I have 36 pigeons at the moment but they do n't all race long distance ’ . |