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 .
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