Example sentences of "we [adv] do [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they want two extra extensions you see in a certain area , we obviously do n't know that |
| 2 | Well , even if I were qualified , I would be very , very sceptical , because I think we just do n't know enough about that yet . |
| 3 | We just do n't know those . |
| 4 | ‘ We just do n't have that kind of liturgy , ’ is the excuse that is often heard . |
| 5 | ‘ We just do n't have enough food to go round , ’ says Phoebe . |
| 6 | On losing to a late goal he added : ‘ We just did n't get that bit of fortune you need — perhaps we 'll have it in May at Wembley instead . ’ |
| 7 | we just did n't get any |
| 8 | One of our major industrial problems is that we usually do not ask enough of our people . |
| 9 | But we deliberately do n't have much food in the fridge — that way , we keep temptation at bay ! ’ |
| 10 | But of course , we still did n't have all the machines we wanted . ’ |
| 11 | But we still do n't know much about the man himself apart from his age ( 59 ) , and that he went to Shrewsbury School at the same time as Michael Heseltine . |
| 12 | ‘ We now have a very healthy nationwide membership that 's growing all the time , but I 'm afraid we still do n't have many members from Newquay , supposedly the country 's surf capital . |
| 13 | ‘ We still do n't see any sign of an upturn at all , ’ said a Peugeot executive . |
| 14 | During the first year we probably did n't give enough time to training . |
| 15 | Indeed , people begin to talk about under-developed Britain , or under-developing Britain , so that we now do n't see this sharp division between British problems as a developed country , and developing countries ' problems in Zambia , or Chile , or wherever , or India . |
| 16 | We have some facilities , but they 're not extensive and we often do n't have enough room . |
| 17 | We talk a lot about those thermal plumes but we really do n't know much about them . |
| 18 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 19 | We 've done a review of the service , we did a review of field centres , we really do not accept that one area , no matter how worthwhile and I 've talked to you |
| 20 | We simply do not have any clear conception of what form a transition from capitalism to socialism would take , above all because there is no convincing historical experience of such a transition . |
| 21 | ‘ We simply do not have enough money . ’ |
| 22 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 23 | In accounting , we simply do not know enough to be able to measure this . |
| 24 | One honest booklet on food and health explains , ‘ The main reason why there are conflicting views about the effect of food on health is that we simply do n't know all the answers yet . |
| 25 | The more detailed and precise analyses on which these conclusions are based are taken from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ' 1976 Family Formation Survey ( Dunnell , 1979 ) , the latest available major national survey on this topic which includes detailed housing and fertility histories , but we simply do n't have more up-to-date evidence on which to make judgements . |
| 26 | We simply do n't have enough officers . |
| 27 | But we surely do not know these on the basis of experience . |
| 28 | We surely do n't want any more Tories in |
| 29 | We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements . |
| 30 | Oh we definitely do n't want that cos all the money will go |