Example sentences of "we do [not/n't] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't , we did n't think to take down all the different places we went to you know |
| 2 | ‘ We did n't think to look for you , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Having been given the opportunity to come together , we did n't intend to let it go . |
| 4 | We did n't intend to have a five-piece group so we played with Craig and , in the meantime , Andy returned and we 'd gotten on so well with him that we decided to continue as a five-piece … |
| 5 | well he knew we did n't mean to sell it better do some of the ship tomorrow , where 's the , look you had one of the masts out , where is it ? |
| 6 | In We Did n't Mean to Go To Sea , the Swallows return to the centre of the stage . |
| 7 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 8 | ‘ We did n't mean to do anything wrong , ’ said Peter , following her . |
| 9 | ‘ And we did n't want to see a team of scriptwriters messing around with our characters . |
| 10 | ‘ Royal Gait ran with the injury in the Champion Hurdle and we did n't want to take any chances with him after that , ’ said Fanshawe . |
| 11 | It meant we did n't want to take life with a pinch of salt in the same way any more . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We did n't want to take the obvious Beatles quotes which most serious Beatles collectors will have , ’ explains Jim . |
| 13 | ‘ But we did n't want to go in with a heavy commitment at first ; we took a PC and wrote our own very simple software to deal with incoming orders . ’ |
| 14 | We did n't want to go to England to study because their painting did n't appeal , they had no sense of colour , their drawings were often so tight and lifeless , no flair . ’ |
| 15 | Because we are er developers of a core accounting package which we hope will have many many hundreds of users before the end of this decade , we did n't want to rely on the vendor of a particular Four G L , so we 've written our product in C to retain that independence within there . |
| 16 | She was in a vulnerable position and we did n't want to abandon her . |
| 17 | We did n't want to sell the house , but we 're both in our sixties and by the time the work is completed we 'll be in our seventies so we just have to bail out now . |
| 18 | Oh well we did n't want to sell them anyway . |
| 19 | We would n't have chosen to move back into town at this time , but having been offered such a good space , we did n't want to turn it down . |
| 20 | We did n't want to kill them full , you see , they 're , that was a waste of food and it was n't so good for them . |
| 21 | We buried it in our garden as we did n't want to upset you . ’ |
| 22 | We did n't want to pop in else your father would be saying that we 're after selling you a new hat again , knowing your weakness for hats . ’ |
| 23 | But the idea was never to defeat the other ; we did n't want to score points . |
| 24 | We spent the most exciting six weeks of our lives without a fucking camera because we did n't want to spend eighty dollars . |
| 25 | We did n't want to leave her to go home alone . |
| 26 | We 've played there before and there 's no stage , no PA , no nothing , so we said we did n't want to do it again . |
| 27 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 28 | We did n't want to do that . ’ |
| 29 | We did n't want to do that . |
| 30 | We tried a very softly-softly approach originally because we did n't want to push them too hard . |