Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 2 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 3 | I do not think we get much further by supposing that Jesus gave two insufflations of his Holy Spirit , one in John 's upper room , and one at Luke 's Pentecost . |
| 4 | ‘ Whatever our mistakes — and we made some — I truly do not think we deserved this . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 6 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 7 | I repeat , however : I do not think we face war . |
| 8 | Personally , I do not think we need an alternative god to look up to . |
| 9 | For myself , I do not think we need to be quite so pessimistic . |
| 10 | I do not think we have enough police living locally . |
| 11 | I do not think we do this . ’ |
| 12 | The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment . |
| 13 | If we do not evolve we stagnate and rot . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't look so shocked , I 'm not suggesting we try and revive whatever kind of relationship we once had . |
| 15 | I am not suggesting we abandon it : the fact that we have not found ways to extract the information does not deny the existence of the factors or traits . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're not suggesting we steal a plane ? ’ said Gurder , by this time totally horrified . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not suggesting we do n't have problems , ’ he said . |
| 18 | We thus engage in cultural confrontations in which we suddenly perceive how our vision is clouded and distorted by hidden assumptions that we did not know we entertained . |
| 19 | In a sense , we do not feel we have any direct competitor in Paris . |
| 20 | ‘ Given a level playing field , I do not feel we have much to fear , ’ he said . |
| 21 | If we take a knife to the Bible and cut out the bits which the modern world can not understand we compromise the message which Christianity has to give to society . |
| 22 | Perhaps there are even some who do not realize we have a magazine , and all those who do know and have supported it in the past , do you really want the magazine to die and be no more ? |
| 23 | can I suggest and I du n no , it might not work we have a lot of children who find it difficult to wo to work at home could we hold a detention in the resource centre for the hour so if other children want to use it , I do n't know , is it open after school ? |
| 24 | I do n't know when he goes , I have n't heard the story properly , cos I was upstairs and , er well Ron was half way upstairs and Eileen come on to the landing and I was in the bathroom , so I says I 'll come down , no she says you need n't bother cos we 're not staying we 've only just er come to see how you are |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not saying we became best buddies because we never did , ’ says Penny . |
| 26 | I 'm not saying we want loads of 15-year-olds sitting in their bedrooms being morose over Techno songs instead of Morrissey songs , just that you can have soul in this type of dance music . |
| 27 | I 'm not saying we have done this in an ad hoc way up to now but what we want is to try and develop a programme for this and I think that should be a very useful and , and frankly I would expect it to grow er over the years as the need develops . |
| 28 | And we 've educated them to go onto next day , and if we 're not performing we lose them . |
| 29 | If that does not happen we ensure the continuation of the social and physical ills so prevalent in society today . ’ |
| 30 | As Cohen ( 1984 : 227 ) points out : ‘ by detachment I do not mean we have to distance ourselves emotionally ; that I think would be perverse . |