Example sentences of "but we [vb past] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also found that peripheral oedema was more common among our female patients , but we did not identify the cause of this effect . |
| 2 | But we did not stop at the café . |
| 3 | But we did not create much poetry : we held each other tenderly , and he comforted me with kisses . |
| 4 | We discussed how to identify the full costs of courses , and the mechanisms by which funding could flow , which could include funds through students , but we did not rule out all of this being government money . |
| 5 | Jim Oulton , GMB branch secretary , said : ‘ We knew the company was in difficulty but we did not think things were this bad or the cuts would be of this magnitude . ’ |
| 6 | Storms blew down the trees , fires ravaged the plantation , dry years killed our saplings — but we did not give up , we laboured on ! " |
| 7 | At that time , thanks in particular to the work of Morgan and his colleagues on Drosophila , we had an abstract model of how genes are arranged on chromosomes , and of how they are transmitted from generation to generation , but we did not understand the chemistry of genes , or their replication , or their role in protein synthesis . |
| 8 | ‘ We had plenty of the ball but we did not look as if we could do anything from our set plays and we did not look likely to score from them . ’ |
| 9 | We had blown a gasket and told them of our problem , but we did not declare an emergency . |
| 10 | We realised , however , that the hard-pressed Billeting Office would be unwilling to countenance a move unless we went ‘ two into one , ; but we did not mind at all the prospect of sharing . |
| 11 | Gentle encouragement is given and the children are expected to do their best , but we did not hear a raised voice or see any need for discipline . |
| 12 | This may have always been the case with anthropology but we did not have to live with the results if our field was in Africa or Asia . |
| 13 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 14 | we know he must have had a father , from our knowledge of the world , but we did not know what he was . |
| 15 | Within the inner-city study , we believed that the language might show patterns of differentiation between older and younger speakers and between the sexes , but we did not know that it would , or if it did , what the precise differences would be . |
| 16 | But we did not find any sign of Stapleton . |