Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ordered so much we could n't eat the last dish they brought us , could n't even touch it . |
| 2 | He would come and stay often at Seaford and we laughed so much we could n't eat . |
| 3 | We was laughing so much we could n't get no sound out . |
| 4 | Well apparently we ca n't find anywhere to make coffee yeah . |
| 5 | I father that he does not sell very well in this country ( nor does Brahms for that matter ! ) , yet apparently we can not get enough of the ‘ Four Seasons ’ , and second-rate opera arias ! |
| 6 | Besides , ’ added Penry with cunning strategy , ‘ if you turn me down we sha n't see each other for quite a while . |
| 7 | ‘ If they are trying to grind us down we will not give way . |
| 8 | Er of tory council and policy perhaps we would not have to be saying to our tenants that we must raise you rents by nine point four percent this year and let's not forget seventeen nine , I think seventeen point six percent last year that were government guidelines . |
| 9 | And perhaps we would n't see an orange for a fortnight , three weeks perhaps . |
| 10 | But perhaps we might not go there again — for a while anyway . ’ |
| 11 | In order to reduce our losses perhaps we should not renew our BMA subscriptions ? |
| 12 | I think perhaps we should not speculate beforehand . |
| 13 | The results of the survey are still controversial , so perhaps we should not allow them too much weight . |
| 14 | Perhaps we should not look for too deep a political explanation : ostracism was for the man whose leadership had been rejected — which might happen for reasons of style rather than content — and whose disapproving presence was an obstruction and a reproach . |
| 15 | So long as we do n't confuse faction with history , perhaps we should n't agonise too much over such matters . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps we should n't talk like this , ’ she said primly . |
| 17 | Living happily ever after may not be so common these days , but as we have a much greater life expectancy , perhaps we should n't expect too much of only one marriage . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps we should n't wait too much longer , sir ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 20 | Perhaps we should n't have left her on her own . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps we should n't say anything to Poppa yet . |
| 22 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , yes , maybe , ’ said the same boy , ‘ but perhaps we need not have a teacher — perhaps we could have a proper person . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps we need n't bother him at all . |
| 25 | And erm , on the er , item twenty five , might there be an opportunity , with the agreement that we 're going to deal with in item D are n't we , er , with the social serv with the er , health authority , are under suspicion that a lot of the er , personal care we offer through that system ought really to be offered by district nurses , erm , and I wonder whether that 's erm , can we , perhaps we can not establish that . |
| 26 | ‘ Obviously we ca n't wear rubber and safety-pins and all . |
| 27 | obviously we ca n't count it twice it 's only one institution . |
| 28 | Because obviously we ca n't close it just like that . |
| 29 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 30 | Obviously we can not choose our parents but we can do a great deal to improve the shape , form and texture of these problem areas . |