Example sentences of "we [verb] [not/n't] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was in the 60s when high rise was so fashionable , but we managed not to have them in Washington . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 'll say this , ’ said one elderly notable : ‘ We did n't think owt to that Machin when he were alive , and I doubt we 'll change our minds thirty years after he 's gone . ’ |
| 3 | We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already . |
| 4 | We did n't watch it at the cinema . |
| 5 | ‘ We did n't make it to the Bazaar last night . |
| 6 | We did n't tell them about the Germans because we did n't want them to be more worried than they were already . |
| 7 | He went on flatly : ‘ So I fixed things for him — he was posted to Germany ; we did n't want him in London having to ride the cocktail circuit . ’ |
| 8 | Well on the other hand we did n't want one between us er |
| 9 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 10 | are we to say that we did n't want it to be Prince |
| 11 | We did n't want there to be any confusion so that people would automatically put us all into public services , because the majority of our members should n't be in that section . |
| 12 | Mind you , I think we 've managed to avoid that self-conscious ‘ world beat ’ kind of feel , because we did n't do it on purpose — it was all an accident ! |
| 13 | Oh we did n't do it in the morning , I was going to do it tomorrow night when you from school . |
| 14 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year because nothing was built , ’ she says . |
| 15 | ‘ We did n't do anything for a year to see what would come up , and we had constant , wonderful surprises . |
| 16 | I was frantically doing this and I showed up at rehearsal thinking they were going to do all the songs , but we did n't do anything until two or three days later ! |
| 17 | we did n't do anything in that erm bob sleigh , four man bob sleigh |
| 18 | Dixons refused to exchange it because we did n't return it in the original packaging . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's lucky we did n't leave him in the car . ’ |
| 20 | Q When we built a conservatory this summer we did n't link it into our central heating system as our boiler was n't big enough . |
| 21 | Certainly when I was setting up my studio in the country , the nice thing was that we did n't do anything standard ; we did n't take anything for granted , whether it was mics , positions of drums or anything . |
| 22 | We did n't take anything for granted . |
| 23 | According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony . |
| 24 | ‘ But we did n't buy it from some grave-robber , you know . |
| 25 | But we did n't , we did n't buy anything from so |
| 26 | We did n't say anything for a while , I was leaning beside him against his bench watching him clean off the rust . |
| 27 | It was hard because we did n't know anything for sure . |
| 28 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 29 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 30 | ‘ We did n't know anything about America , but it felt right . |