Example sentences of "we [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We failed because we did not raise people 's hopes sufficiently . |
| 2 | Says Bartle : ‘ We demonstrated that you do n't need to spend a vast amount of money for advertising to work and be successful . |
| 3 | That was the method that we used and I did n't I never heard I did n't hear of dermatitis or anything until well twenty five years afterwards . |
| 4 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 5 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 6 | He folded the paper away as we approached but he did n't stand up . |
| 7 | She was happy because we believed that she had not killed William . |
| 8 | Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely . |
| 9 | In the unchanging landscape we drove but we did n't get anywhere . |
| 10 | We heard that it does not intend to cap any local authority . |
| 11 | Because we decided that they did n't have a , a strong enough military base er w w w what erm gave the peasants the incentive to , to join ? |
| 12 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 13 | we decided that we did n't need to change the application I suggested that . |
| 14 | If we knew that we do n't need them . |
| 15 | There appeared to be some problem with our papers regarding the tonnage we were hauling until a 20DM note was produced and we insisted that we did not require a receipt . |
| 16 | But w as I said we did because we did n't have a pig . |
| 17 | I think it would be better 'cos in fact , sub-contractors to an outside person , to you sub-contracting meant absolutely everything that we bought that we did n't er , provide ourselves , did n't it . |
| 18 | We hoped that we did n't have no we had electric valve er central heating but we have very old central heating . |
| 19 | And they said erm if you would like to see the designs write and ask for a sample so we wrote and I have n't actually received any samples yet . |
| 20 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 21 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |