Example sentences of "we do n't " in BNC.
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| 31 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 32 | It got to the stage where we did n't bother to ask what happened to it . |
| 33 | We did n't even think about it . |
| 34 | But we were so hopelessly naïve we did n't realise we were buying at retail prices . |
| 35 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 36 | We did n't need fifty-eight blast furnaces . |
| 37 | You 've got to ask yourself what they had that we did n't have . |
| 38 | It was n't because we did n't have the talent . |
| 39 | What I tried to teach people was that if we did n't increase the added value , but took more of it and put it in our pockets , the only place we could take it from was the glass marked reinvestment and that makes people unemployed quicker than anything — and permanently . |
| 40 | They have many more management techniques , which we did n't have — which we 've given them — and of course they 've got new ideas coming along as well. , Pearce 's own progression within Esso was a series of the grasped opportunities he talks about enthusiastically . |
| 41 | We did n't have time to play on the beach or in the streets with the other kids . |
| 42 | We did n't know what the risk factors were . |
| 43 | We did n't have any understanding of the business colleges . |
| 44 | We did n't shoot at women and children like the Tans but we were a bunch of killers . |
| 45 | ‘ We did n't have to split up that day . |
| 46 | ‘ He ca n't say that we did n't make an attempt . ’ |
| 47 | The nun thinks we did n't do too bad . ’ |
| 48 | It probably was , but we did n't get up ; we are n't completely stupid . |
| 49 | We did n't make Abisko , chickening out as the weather worsened and the forecasts began to sound even more dire . |
| 50 | Anyway , we did n't complain about that . |
| 51 | We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be . |
| 52 | And , no , we did n't succumb to the gateau . |
| 53 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 54 | We did n't tell no one about it , just went off to church quietly by ourselves . |
| 55 | There was a boy at school who was deaf , but he could read lips so we did n't have to shout . |
| 56 | Normally we 'd buy our meals from the downstairs kitchen , but for breakfast we had our own food so we did n't have to get up till late . |
| 57 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ IF WE DID N'T SHOOT FOXES , WITHIN TWO OR THREE YEARS , WE 'D HAVE TO GIVE UP SHEEP FARMING . ’ |
| 59 | I did little bits to help , like picking up sticks for firewood and fetching water from the well , as we did n't have any electricity or running water . |
| 60 | Sometimes we did well , sometimes we did n't ; the prices were not up to much . |