Example sentences of "we [verb] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we emphasized not the choices made but the social rules followed by social actors , then a more collective account of social action would have emerged . |
| 2 | ‘ Fourth after trinity : ‘ passing through things temporal that we lose not things eternal ’ , I seem to remember . ’ |
| 3 | That 's why we agreed not to train her . |
| 4 | All that business about Linda — I know we agreed not to talk about it — but I feel such a shit out here . |
| 5 | ‘ I know , in spite of the fact that we agreed not to discuss it , it was all because of what had happened in the past , was n't it ? ’ |
| 6 | I think , you know , it it it 's er something we made not all that |
| 7 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 8 | If we are very angry or excited , we tend not to listen to what other people are saying . |
| 9 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 10 | Worse than this , we tend not only to limit ourselves to looking at faces , but also to be preoccupied with whether they smile or not . |
| 11 | So we tend not to understand horses very well . |
| 12 | We tend not to appreciate pleasures like that unless we have had to manage without them . |
| 13 | We tend not to change unless we have to . |
| 14 | Nevertheless to make it really easy to reach your daily dietary fibre target of 30g plus , it is an excellent idea to have one regular , constant daily meal breakfast is ideal because we tend not to vary our breakfasts — to supply about half the requirement . |
| 15 | We tend not to notice this because in TNC the curriculum proposals came before the discussion of testing and assessment . |
| 16 | She also conceded , however , ‘ We tend not routinely to inform GPs . |
| 17 | Well we tend not to what you 've just said , pull them in . |
| 18 | Unlike the Labour party and the Militant Tendency we tend not to have card-carrying women , but I can tell the hon. Lady , although I was not asked this question , that precisely 50 per cent . |
| 19 | ‘ We tend not to use the word ‘ game ’ , sir . |
| 20 | Perhaps we tend not to see this year 's household survey as an historical datum because it is the human condition to flatter ourselves that our own lives are outside time , and therefore outside history . |
| 21 | yes , we tend not to use P C Us as much as well a few years ago . |
| 22 | We feigned not to grasp the reference , though Durham City readers may understand it very well . |
| 23 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 24 | By ‘ real labour costs ’ we mean not just the real wage , but the total cost of employing labour , including the employers ' National Insurance contributions , deflated by an appropriate price index , and with an allowance being made for changes in labour productivity . |
| 25 | By this we mean not that it is chaotic but simply that there is no government above the states which comprise it . |
| 26 | We delight not just in surfaces , |
| 27 | If we chronicle not how Eliot 's reputation was advanced , but how Eliot 's poetry ( and all modern poetry ) came to be understood , the part played by Allen Tate bulks very large and honourably . |
| 28 | It is salutary to learn how we appear not simply through our own eyes , but through the eyes of an objective assessor . |
| 29 | In their language : ’ Then xehna me ’ — ’ we forget not . ’ |
| 30 | This is what may be called " event stratigraphy " in which we correlate not the rocks themselves , on their intrinsic petrological characters , nor the fossils , but the events such as the Triassic transgressions just discussed . |