Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 2 | France and Spain , okay , if you only got one of those countries right we could n't give you the point , it has to be both , question eighteen , in which book would you find the character Long John Silver ? |
| 3 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |
| 4 | ‘ We ca n't light anything the now , ’ urged Jim . |
| 5 | Now we have n't got X in it yet so we ca n't give them the answer in that form cos they |
| 6 | Like physical ailments and er our , our , our physical body does n't work like it used to , and as you do get older there is a tendency to more to , to need more rest , we ca n't do what the young ones er do , and we would love to do that and that goes along with what the council and the |
| 7 | So , we ca n't tell what the final deadline date will be because there are so many pro processes , to go through . |
| 8 | We ca n't say what the scale is . |
| 9 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 10 | It is hardly surprising that a tiny minority of the signatories are now beginning to say , ’ We will not do what the treaty calls upon us to do ; we will do what the United Kingdom does . ’ |
| 11 | Oh jolly good , we wo n't ask what the fee was . |
| 12 | But he said we wo n't charge you the daily rate , we 'll just charge you for the job . |
| 13 | Due to the constraints of the Trove system we can not show you the policies as they are actually printed . |
| 14 | We can not tell who the members of such a union might be . |
| 15 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
| 16 | Perhaps by contemplating you will find something that is wrong in your proposition … dig the gold and look at the country , but we can not give you the country you ask for . |
| 17 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 18 | We can not say what the outcome of a meeting of the Defence Committee might have been , or whether the course of events would have been altered if it had met in September 1981 ; but , in our view , it could have been advantageous , and fully in line with Whitehall practice , for Ministers to have reviewed collectively at that time , or in the months immediately ahead , the current negotiating position ; the implications of the conflict between the attitudes of the Islanders and the aims of the Junta ; and the longer-term policy options in relation to the dispute . |
| 19 | We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular . |
| 20 | We can not say what the occupation of Germany will involve at the moment , or what will be our obligations in the East and at home . |
| 21 | We can not allow ourselves the empty luxury of doubt . ’ |
| 22 | If we take such a " bat-detector " out to a clearing where a bat is feeding , we shall hear when each bat pulse is emitted , although we can not hear what the pulses really " sound " like . |