Example sentences of "not [verb] we were " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had been privy to a re-enactment of the movements of a former working on the old harbour branch , and although not frightened we were all very puzzled by the strange sequence of events . |
| 2 | Oh yes , pick anything up in the room I think , you know , that 's reasonable loud , not to worry we were talking , talking about Shetland 's Lowe were n't we ? |
| 3 | Did you not know we were here ? ’ |
| 4 | The postal service was rather vague in these remote villages , and perhaps a letter had gone astray , for when we arrived at what we thought would be our host 's house , we found that the old perpetua did not know we were coming . |
| 5 | if you may or may not remember we were able to buy the D U S from Holland on it |
| 6 | I 'm not saying we were the first , bloody hell , it sounded dated when we did it . |
| 7 | Once we had sat together in that ‘ condemned ’ gallery until evening , and the sacristan , not knowing we were there , had nearly locked us in for the night . |
| 8 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 9 | ‘ Did I not say we were old enemies , he and I ? |
| 10 | ‘ I had n't realised we were so high up . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think we were wrong , ’ he said slowly . |
| 12 | ‘ At a time when political parties could n't get twenty people in a room , we had to hold overflow meetings everywhere we went , ’ recalls Priestley , ‘ I do n't think we were ineffectual . |
| 13 | Yes , do n't think we were n't watching you … measurable weight loss needs to be at least in the region of 2 lb a week in order to provide that reward so essential to sustained effort . |
| 14 | We were hard , but I do n't think we were dirty . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We had to make sure they did n't think we were a bunch of supermen and that they were aware that things could go wrong , ’ said a source . |
| 16 | Erm We have n't I do n't think got minutes of the previous , I do n't think we were keeping minutes of these meetings . |
| 17 | But I do n't think we were understanding each other . ’ |
| 18 | I did n't think we were doing that because that that that |
| 19 | I do n't think we were , I think it was about three years ago |
| 20 | We 're always fucking late I did n't think we were late this morning . |
| 21 | ‘ You did n't know we were old mates , did you ? ’ said Gazzer . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't know we were on first-name terms . ’ |
| 23 | No , no , no none of that , union did n't know we were paying . |
| 24 | No , I mean he did n't know we were an elected body , did he ? |
| 25 | Well I did n't know we were going today . |
| 26 | Oh yeah we did n't know we were doing interviews at this stage |
| 27 | Like you could n't remember we were going . |
| 28 | They had n't known we were in NZ and we had n't known they were . |
| 29 | But we were so hopelessly naïve we did n't realise we were buying at retail prices . |
| 30 | ‘ When you start the season hoping to make sure of a place in the Premier League you have to be satisfied with our present position , ’ he said , ‘ but I did n't realise we were only six points behind Leeds with a game in hand . ’ |