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

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1 They they change everything over do n't they , they they do n't do this and they do n't do that .
2 You see they do n't want finicky stuff , they want er a large pay packet fo , er stamping er envelopes .
3 It depends , some of them bigger Vauxhalls see they do n't hold their money .
4 But in captivity there 's nowhere for them to run , so it 's up to us to see they do n't hurt each other badly . ’
5 Gateways do n't do they do n't take their pounds out .
6 And you just But as we were saying er talking to Janet afterwards there was another little one down at the side , erm mum was getting a bit irate with him , but you see they do n't take anything for the children to do .
7 See they do n't know it 's to hurt .
8 But they would n't they do n't come down normally to ?
9 Hall Point they du n no where that
10 Cor they du n no
11 Unlike advertising , however , they could be excluded from a definition of mass media because by twentieth-century standards they did not spread their messages quickly and simultaneously , nor to audiences that were large in relation to the communities within which they circulated .
12 Yet , significant as many of these developments were , the majority seem chiefly remarkable for the wealth they did not generate .
13 She had thought the quantities of gilt ( never did she credit that it might be real gold ) an evidence of shocking vulgarity , had sneered at the bad taste of the ornate picture frames , at the ridiculous excesses of the pictures themselves , and had felt a solid , suburban scorn for the frayed and patched tapestry chair seats and the faded hangings : she had wondered why , if so rich , they did not throw out their tatty Persian coverings , and buy themselves a good bit of fitted Wilton or Axminster in a good plain colour .
14 Despite their new-found power , however , they did not succeed in totally obliterating what had been before .
15 Although the American team eventually achieved good control , various circumstances curtailed the project and they did not succeed in eradicating the anophelines .
16 Although the Dwarfs often tried to recapture Karak Eight Peaks they did not succeed until about the Imperial year 2470 , when Belegar established a fortified bridgehead in the old citadel .
17 In the course of these operations they killed and wounded more than 500 people , but even with these drastic measures they did not succeed in doing what they had set out to do .
18 Although they did not succeed in holding much territory , they proved their ability to penetrate deep into SOC-held territory .
19 The US and UK press gave prominence to reports that officials in both countries might ask Group of Seven ( G-7 ) and European Community ( EC ) countries to impose commercial sanctions against Libya ( additional to the existing US and EC sanctions ) if they did not succeed in having Megrahi and Fhimah extradited .
20 So the policy makers , the planners ( and the academics ? ) all sought to make sure that they did not influence the situation in Dunrossness .
21 When the ancestors of whales reinvaded the sea , they did not acquire fins by hybridizing with fish .
22 By hybridizing different varieties of peas , Mendel had shown that some characters are inherited as units on an ‘ all or nothing ’ basis — they did not blend together as Darwin and almost everyone else assumed .
23 So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell .
24 They did not register the existence of the Jews .
25 One of the TUC 's two great general secretaries , George Woodcock — the other was Walter Citrine — warned them that they would lose influence if they did not reform themselves .
26 They did not sit on the floor .
27 The girls looked from McQuaid to Moran and back to McQuaid again but they did not speak .
28 They did not speak Jove 's language ; they went to war clad only in shields and were , as Plato sternly put it , ‘ given to excess in drink . ’
29 They did not speak of permanent hostilities between sections or lineages , but they did speak of peaces between lineages .
30 They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads .
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