Example sentences of "i [vb base] we [modal v] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we would n't want to keep traipsing through her house every time |
| 2 | No I mean we would n't ask him if he 's not well . |
| 3 | I mean we may not like heavy lorries thundering along , whereas we do like ambulances , and computer use is precisely the same . |
| 4 | When Dick 's lads are down to seven and a half hours which they are in the erm summertime , I mean we s the lads 'll come in I mean we ca n't pull them off now , but those lads 'll come in and clean up . |
| 5 | It 's as simple as that I mean we ca n't expect her to do it . |
| 6 | If you 're form two they always look to you to , I mean we ca n't do our thing by ourselves but soon as something needs done , doing they look to us . |
| 7 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 8 | I mean it 's , it 's general I suppose I mean if it would be better to switch it on and off which you can do and er , you know , I mean we ca n't sit here continually talking |
| 9 | I mean we ca n't go into the private market and expect them or asking them to provide houses erm affordable houses as I say the question is what 's an affordable house , who 's got the money to buy the house I would presume , but obviously we know the situation is it 's the lower rent of market , the lower income groups and the unemployed that are suffering very much reasonable accommodation at a rent or at a price they can afford and I reckon this is what hopefully the government was after to say whether we 'll put in our policy and hope that we can get things . |
| 10 | I mean we ca n't grumble , I mean Sheila give |
| 11 | I mean we ca n't keep going shopping every week for , erm providing like all the meal or do we ? |
| 12 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 13 | Well when I say Christmas I mean that 's actually decision , I mean we ca n't hurry the meeting that you 've had and we ca n't hurry the meetings one we get |
| 14 | Well , ca n't be helped , I mean we ca n't have water coming through that , that 's down the soil pipe , ca n't have that open for ever |
| 15 | Well that 's the thing with our , I mean we ca n't have one of these erm |
| 16 | So erm the only thing this shaking comes on but er years ago I mean we dare n't go against our parents . |
| 17 | Yeah , well I think that we ought to get them or somebody to put a retraction , I mean we dare n't do it ourselves , but I think in next month 's |
| 18 | Well I mean we need n't buy the expensive things like sweatshirts |
| 19 | well I , I mean we can not leave it lying around , erm do you know what Mr position is on Monday ? |
| 20 | I mean we could n't move from one end of the hub to the other for that , and they are the people who are excellent at doing that sort of business are n't they ? |
| 21 | Your information largely confirms what we already knew , and I trust we shall not need to trouble you again . ’ |
| 22 | which of course is rightly the , the domain of the District Council so I hope we wo n't get too involved in that . |
| 23 | You know , I do , I know we ca n't take that . |
| 24 | I know we ca n't have it . |
| 25 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 26 | Win or lose , I guarantee we will not return with our tails between our legs , but with a hell of a lot of dignity and applause from you blokes . |
| 27 | Er trading standards continue to be under pressure er we ought to agree on that er and we I I believe we may not have difficulty er in achieving the additional value of this type of almost on an annual basis if we are short of the trading standards . |
| 28 | Although they are somewhat late in entering the bids scenario , I believe we should not rule them out since having talked to my partner in Italy , he regards them very much as an niche buyer . |
| 29 | Beyond that I believe we can not go , although there are occasionally tantalizing groups of poems on related themes , either brought together by the editor/printer or composed as deliberate variations on a theme , and perhaps copied out on a ‘ sheet ’ of paper , folio size , folded ( which we know was a unit of composition and occasionally payment in Elizabethan poetry and drama ) . |
| 30 | I guess we ca n't have it all ! |