Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [Wh adv] we [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the symptoms of jet-lag relate to how we feel , but such an explanation does not explain why we should feel below par , and seems less acceptable when one would expect the mind to be concentrated on enjoying oneself on holiday or performing at one 's peak on business or at athletics , for instance . |
| 2 | But as it stands , this declaration does not explain why we should accept these criteria , nor why Lenin 's proposal is anything other than arbitrary . |
| 3 | Even if we were to accept that no legislator should vote for the compromise , this would not explain why we should reject the compromise as an out-come . |
| 4 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
| 5 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 6 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 7 | We do not see why we should pay the environmental price for manifest improvements for the people of north-west England . |
| 8 | In nineteen eighty nine , Mrs Margaret Thatcher said , I do not see why we should pay for the education of conflict . |
| 9 | An adviser said : ‘ We do not see why we should allow foreign lotteries to take the money when it can be used for the benefit of Britain . ’ |
| 10 | As we have no continuous contemporary account of the persecution of Antiochus IV and of the Maccabean reaction , I do not see how we can decide whether any Psalm may be labelled as Maccabean . |
| 11 | I do not see how we can separate principle from practice , policy from implementation . |
| 12 | But this does n't explain why we should think it is the sort that is invoked in an argument from analogy . |
| 13 | ‘ If ever we had to move , ’ said Edward to Joan one sunny afternoon , ‘ I ca n't think how we 'd begin to sort out this lot . ’ |
| 14 | You do n't know when we 'll get a day like this again . |
| 15 | I do n't know when we 'll get them . |
| 16 | * The Shah had said , " We do n't know when we will return and you need to be with your families . |
| 17 | But I do n't know when we could do that . |
| 18 | I just do n't know when we could get it all together though — that 's the only problem . ’ |
| 19 | Mind you , I do n't know where we 'll find that . ’ |
| 20 | Now , I thought that was quite inappropriate for a young man like him , who had nowhere else to go , so there are many , many multiple problems for people like this in this city , and anything we can do would be appreciated , but I really do n't know where we would stop , there are so many problems . |
| 21 | Any discussion , if we enter into any discussion , we start tinkering with it and er we do n't know where we 'd end . |
| 22 | " I do n't know where we should live then , " said Nenna . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know how we 'll survive without him , I really do n't . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't know how we shall get them out , because they are exhausted and probably they will find it difficult to walk . |
| 25 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know how we would have done . |
| 27 | If we had n't had the shop , I do n't know how we could have managed . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't know how we will manage Tom and Oliver , Kit has her difficult days , you know , but we will do our best . |
| 29 | But I do n't know how we 'd go about that other than just writing to town councils . |
| 30 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |