Example sentences of "[Wh adv] we [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they went to sleep , Marian whispered , ‘ You will think of us when you are his wife , Tess , and how we did not hate you , because we did not expect to be chosen by him . ’ |
| 2 | Now Vinnie will realise why we did not sit down in the pub . |
| 3 | Given the history of European developments in the past 20 years , those people will also want to know why we did not learn from Britain 's earlier mistake . |
| 4 | They will want to know why we did not join the Community at its inception and fashion the very fabric of it to our advantage . |
| 5 | They will want to know why we did not appreciate the inconvenience and stupidity of having to change currency constantly as one moved from country to country in the Community . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , all the Government have done is to ask why we did not support the purchase of council houses or the provisions for grant-maintained schools . |
| 7 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before . |
| 9 | It is possible that the PCR signal in testis was due to blood contamination , however we did not detect Oct-11 expression in well-vascularised tissues such as kidney and liver . |