Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] [adv] we " in BNC.
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1 | I do not understand why we should be dealing with local government finance in Scotland in a Bill that covers the United Kingdom . |
2 | ( At a meeting I attended recently about Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses someone said , ‘ You do not understand how we have been insulted ; it is as though someone had raped my daughter . ’ |
3 | I do not understand how we are supposed to have a system which deals best with the most difficult parts of the Community but which makes matters worse in Scotland and Wales , but that is what the scheme does . |
4 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
5 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
6 | An adviser said : ‘ We do not see why we should allow foreign lotteries to take the money when it can be used for the benefit of Britain . ’ |
7 | We do not see why we should pay the environmental price for manifest improvements for the people of north-west England . |
8 | In nineteen eighty nine , Mrs Margaret Thatcher said , I do not see why we should pay for the education of conflict . |
9 | As we have no continuous contemporary account of the persecution of Antiochus IV and of the Maccabean reaction , I do not see how we can decide whether any Psalm may be labelled as Maccabean . |
10 | I do not see how we can separate principle from practice , policy from implementation . |
11 | ‘ It is one of the fastest growing sports in Europe , but if we do not act now we will see the same kind of draconian measures becoming necessary in Britain as are already being undertaken in Europe . |
12 | ‘ I allowed sixty seconds for us to get in the cart from the train and if we do n't leave now we 'll be late . ’ |
13 | But if we do n't go soon we will go nowhere but into ice . ’ |
14 | certainly do n't think where we going is suitable for a puddy tat , hours and hours on end and not being allowed to go outside and even when we 're there , I say , we ca n't be running up and down them bloody staircases letting cats out , I could n't , I could n't bear the thought of it never going out . |
15 | I do n't think even we realise the level of fear that some of them live with ’ . |
16 | I do n't think though we should give the impression that most of the behaviour we 're calling sexual harassment takes the form of behaviour that |
17 | I thought I heard him say that there was some discretion in this matter , if the French do n't go ahead there is some discretion on the part of the British government , I thought it was automatic that if the French do n't ratify then we wo n't be able to ratify . |
18 | No do n't forget again all the things that you recognize from somebody who was suffering from shock right do n't forget how we treat them okay and we 'll run a film for you now erm , no perhaps we wo n't we 'll deal with the severe bleeding on the palm of the hand and get that out of the way |
19 | Now , cos I mean do n't forget originally we used to take milk out twice a day , morning and night , because you had to fetch it from the farm . |
20 | You do n't know when we 'll get a day like this again . |
21 | But I do n't know when we could do that . |
22 | I just do n't know when we could get it all together though — that 's the only problem . ’ |
23 | * The Shah had said , " We do n't know when we will return and you need to be with your families . |
24 | I do n't know when we 're starting back , I 'm not sure . |
25 | Erm they 'll be I do n't know when we getting them I think it 's maybe next spring or sometime yeah . |
26 | I do n't know when we went on the coach to Mannock Farm Camp Site erm you know , and it 's a long old haul ! |
27 | I do n't know when we 'll get them . |
28 | I do n't know why we drink so much and come up smelling of roses . |
29 | I do n't know why we drink so much . |
30 | I do n't know why we drink . |