Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] we [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 2 | And although my department and British Rail had produced a joint report , this did not mean we automatically accepted BR 's views . |
| 3 | But they ( the French ) did not beat us physically but because we lost our cool … and there were worse problems , especially the lack of a leader . |
| 4 | Madame Butterfly at the Teatro Regio in Parma did not offer us much in the way of solid information . |
| 5 | ‘ Terry did not string us along and was very open . |
| 6 | ‘ The Police generally support us on this , but I have to say the problem does not seem quite as serious now as it used to be , and they did not mind us frequently playing Saturday games last season . ’ |
| 7 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |
| 8 | They do not tell us why the level is set at its current average rather than some much higher or lower figure . |
| 9 | Conversely , the school tests for explicitness do not tell us very much about the exercise of multiple points of view . |
| 10 | Thus , not only are there ambiguities in practice in terms of the organisational design of public sector organisations but they do not tell us very much about the power and status that attach to particular departments . |
| 11 | But they do not tell us much about how more complex cognitive processes take place . |
| 12 | While examination results alone do not tell us much about the nature of the educational crisis , they are useful indicators of the extent of the problem : undoubtedly school conditions and the situation of teachers have affected their outcomes . |
| 13 | But these caricatures do not tell us much about what is going on with real , complex individuals behind the scenes . |
| 14 | These correlations , while of interest , do not tell us much about the political substance of the ‘ class'/party link , but Butler and Stokes pursued this further by soliciting ‘ free ’ responses concerning the reasons for identification with one or other party . |
| 15 | Notice , though , that while flow figures are useful in telling us the directions in which companies channel the funds they received , they do not tell us how active intermediaries are in any particular market . |
| 16 | The People 's machines do not threaten us then . |
| 17 | Tragically , I have to wish that that was the case because today 's figures do not give us much ground for comfort , but , as long as the Minister continues his present style of trying to hype up and to trivialise every issue , that is what will happen to our agriculture . |
| 18 | Details of the experiments themselves do not concern us here , but some of the ideas that have emerged from them are of interest because they add further to our understanding of how , looked at from a biological perspective , creativity can be connected to psychosis . |
| 19 | This is not to deny that questions of income distribution are important , but they do not concern us here , and so we restrict ourselves to " baking the biggest cake " . |
| 20 | Such matters do not concern us now . ’ |
| 21 | Those do not get us much further . |
| 22 | If , however , we take The Politics ofthe Developing Areas as a classic of functionalist politics , we find that the statements on bureaucracy in the area studies presented there do not take us as far forward as the theoretical scheme promises . |
| 23 | But although by themselves they do not take us this far , they do at least point the way . |
| 24 | Such categories , however , do not take us very deeply into the study of style . |
| 25 | But they do not take us sufficiently deeply into the complexity of the concept . |
| 26 | I do not presume to argue with these , but our modern parallels do not help us overmuch . |
| 27 | They did n't throw us out entirely . |
| 28 | That 's one of the reasons we did n't bother we just painted it , you know ? |
| 29 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 30 | Well they did n't tell us why . |