Example sentences of "we can [not/n't] do without " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And except for ministers , of course — we can not do without them ; or schoolmasters — the Lord Lieutenants will need them to draw up more lists and sign away more lives when the six thousand have bled and died in France , or Spain , or India . ’ |
| 2 | We can not do without his cunning , or his tinker friends . |
| 3 | But we have already seen above that we can not do without an intensification of growth , the development of this petty-bourgeois farm . |
| 4 | These are obvious , though complicated-sounding , examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without . |
| 5 | The Captain 's name is I. McKeller and the mates Murray so you see we can not do without your countrymen and candidly I shall place my life in their hands with the utmost confidence . |
| 6 | In the end you have to become part of the establishment , Gareth , but never let them remove or circumscribe your right of free speech ; you use it too well and the rest of us can not do without it . |