Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Great , ’ he reiterated , ‘ sampled a bit of the local night-life , lost a few francs at the gambling tables , and then found that we could n't drag ourselves away from each other , so we spent the night in a hotel . ’ |
| 2 | No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it . |
| 3 | Fritz wanted to do something immediately about Black Michael and his men , but Sapt and I realized that we could not do anything openly . |
| 4 | thank you situation are appointed jointly by the County Council and the County and effectively these consultations and of that er appointment and the following the last Committee we agreed with the er detail and of the and we also agreed that we would not go ahead with the which until we have seen the result of the consultation and therefore there still outstanding as whether we wish to action the not . |
| 5 | Well , yeah , I spoke to them like , on the telephone , erm and basically they er and we agreed that we would n't take it any further so it er happened to be a police officer 's view as against our view , and whilst we did n't agree with the view , er we sent enough references to make our point known anyway . |
| 6 | However , I argued that we should not suppose that the essentially competitive process he proposed implies a competitive outcome . |
| 7 | Eden also argued that we should not distinguish between the Soviet government and any other allied government , but his overriding conclusion was that : " It is most important that our own prisoners in Germany and Poland be well cared for and returned as soon as possible . |
| 8 | We then stated that we could not concur without referring the matter to our Government . |
| 9 | We then stated that we could not concur without referring the matter to our Government … " |
| 10 | ‘ We agreed when we separated that we would n't behave like this , ’ Loretta replied in aggrieved tones . |
| 11 | From these two ideas alone , Friedmann showed that we should not expect the universe to be static . |
| 12 | He said ‘ No , sorry ’ , to which we replied that we could n't continue to play or back David if we were n't going to get any money . |
| 13 | I prayed that we would n't crack up in laughter . |
| 14 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |
| 15 | I wonder who first decided that we should n't eat mustard with lamb ? |
| 16 | With all the previous intermediaries we looked at , we warned that we can not judge the volume of buying and selling of assets which an intermediary carries out just from looking at the inflow of new funds . |
| 17 | It was difficult not knowing if we 'd be able to give Eleanor everything we wanted to give her and knowing there were things she needed that we could n't afford . |
| 18 | As ever , time constraints meant that we could n't try absolutely everything , and so the Bass Centre 's manager Martin Gravestock agreed to guide us through the popular models within our categories , and we chose random examples from there . |
| 19 | ‘ I simply meant that we should not have fish so unfailingly , on a regular day of the week , in future . ’ |
| 20 | This was a sort of Blue Peter for the gastronomically challenged for the clumsy truth is , of course , that either Mr Mayle or the adaptor of his book feared that WE would n't recognise a truffle if it crawled up our trouser leg . |
| 21 | ‘ We summoned the sorcerers , and we sat long nights in Council , for we knew that we dare not wait until it was time for the Ritual of the Beastline to take place ; we had to know long before that if the birth of twins into the Royal House had truly damaged the Enchantment . |
| 22 | Before this season he always knew that we could n't survive without him , but now we can , now we have another star . |
| 23 | Tim and Lynne Littler caught up with us at this point and with little resistance from our party , insisted that we could n't leave Paris without a light lunch . |
| 24 | But when the issue came before the Cabinet it decided in favour of the oil company : " The Foreign Office , the Commonwealth Office , the Ministry of Power , the D.E.A. ( Department of Economic Affairs ) and the Treasury all insisted that we could n't afford to upset a foreign oil company . " |
| 25 | When we looked at the figures we proved that we would n't get any more business because of where people lived and when we tried to push them to Detroit over Amsterdam they would n't have it , people would prefer to drive to Gatwick . |
| 26 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 27 | ‘ She , with great dignity , accepted my invitation and she said that we wo n't wait for too long before she comes to Russia on an official visit , ’ he said later at London 's Hyde Park Hotel . |
| 28 | ‘ But the policewoman said that we ca n't leave , ’ said Zanya . |
| 29 | The new philosophy said that we should not make value judgements : you ca n't think in an Aristotelian way ; no value judgements , no good and bad . |
| 30 | On check-off , the hon. Gentleman said that we could not have that now unless individual trade unionists gave their consent . |