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 . |