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Example sentences of "we do not " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	cos we done not a lot this morning like I just sort of be zombies , I 'm sure we could do play with
2	We did not venture near the fields again until a friend with children came to spend a weekend .
3	We did not agree to this on accession in 1972 , nor again in 1975 in the Referendum , nor in the acceptance of the Single European Act in 1986 .
4	‘ We did not wish to create conditions which led to possible violence . ’
5	‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said .
6	‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French .
7	Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education .
8	We did not accept that .
9	We did not talk about ‘ Robin Hood ’ schemes , not at all .
10	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 .
11	Jimmy McGregor , a member of the legislative council , said , ‘ If we did not have to depend on China we would be looking at a most marvellous future . ’
12	‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East .
13	‘ We did not want the war , he continued , his voice getting weaker .
14	Unless my recollection is at fault , it seems to be that two generations ago it was accepted in our society that we did not use firearms .
15	All this spare passion between us , which we did not know how to show .
16	We did not even have our own lavatories ; our employees had to go outside our part of the building to use communal facilities .
17	Hepworth was to speak wistfully of ‘ a pressure in the air which we did not understand ’ , saying that ‘ we worked on as best we could in spite of it . ’
18	‘ We did not talk about art or social significance . ’
19	We may have our worries about the different future we see opening up before us — it would be odd if we did not — but surely we must see what is happening at the Brandenburg Gate as a European as well as a German triumph .
20	We may have our worries about the different future we see opening up before us — it would be odd if we did not — but surely we must see what is happening at the Brandenburg Gate as a European as well as a German triumph .
21	‘ We would not be living up to our responsibilities if we did not listen to ordinary party members . ’
22	We were the second crew on the scene and we did not leave the crash site all day . ’
23	It is precisely because he had many titles that we did not see agree , he and I. Voila . ’
24	‘ If we did not feel 100 per cent positive about our ability to fly the plane safely , we would not put it in the air . ’
25	We did not have a definite identification until late yesterday afternoon , in any case . ’
26	We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) .
27	There was not a poet 's emotion which we did not heartily believe ourselves to share , evoked by the poem but not imitated from it .
28	We did not go in search of miracles , we invited them to come to us .
29	Even in the ‘ poll-tax ’ dominated months of 1990 we did not quite reach that point .
30	At the Cabinet meeting on 9 September , we did not discuss the CPRS paper in any detail .