Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regret we can not accept special requests on late offer holidays . |
| 2 | When it was being drawn up ‘ we agreed we could n't have a cash limit and we never said there would be a cash limit ’ . |
| 3 | I thought we agreed you would n't see him till this was over . ’ |
| 4 | However , elation at the beauty of the surroundings meant tandooried legs were far from my thoughts , and as we continued to the shapely Sgurr an Lochain , towering as it does over a tiny dark blue lochan , we agreed it could n't get much better . |
| 5 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 6 | Halfway through rehearsals , we realized he could n't cut it . |
| 7 | How do we know we ca n't do something unless we try ? |
| 8 | But if we give you information , how do we know you wo n't distort it ? ’ |
| 9 | How do we know he wo n't discharge himself again after a week ? |
| 10 | But almost as soon as our church team was formed , with the desire of being a marvellous example of love in action , we found we could not get on together , let alone with the world ! |
| 11 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 12 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 13 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 14 | If we say we can not afford it , the reply is that we pay out more and more millions of pounds in unemployment benefit . |
| 15 | I think the general concept that we is that we do not want to erm envisage we hope we will not envisage proposals which generate a scale of development erm which is quite clearly not related erm to the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 16 | We hope she wo n't need a bone-marrow transplant . |
| 17 | In the contract that we negotiated we could not alter the content of the service provided by Devon social services but we could influence the nature and speed of delivery and of communication . |
| 18 | When we arrived I could n't come into the house because I knew … thought I knew what was coming . |
| 19 | Then it is likely that when we recover we will not slip back again into that same pit . ’ |
| 20 | My relationship with Isobel started going wrong when we discovered she could n't have children and started having infertility treatment . |
| 21 | But we know we ca n't get into Spain because of the 1992 Olympics . " |
| 22 | Very often we conform because we know we dare not risk the consequences of non-conformity . |
| 23 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |
| 24 | ‘ They say , we know you ca n't continue in the old way , ’ he says , but until now there has been no alternative . |
| 25 | We know he ca n't deal with crosses so we need a centre-half who can . |
| 26 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 27 | Unless we talk we wo n't reach conclusions that are acceptable to the majority . |
| 28 | Though it is very disconcerting when we find we ca n't drop off or that we wake early , we must remember that we can not do ourselves any physical harm by having difficulty sleeping . |
| 29 | If we find we ca n't get an increase in salary |
| 30 | However , each time we called she would n't answer the door although we could see the curtain move so we knew she was at home . |