Example sentences of "we do [not/n't] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't see a lot of Father that year because he was in the Government . |
| 2 | We did n't see a single soldier or vehicle and assumed that the US army was blocking off La Boca from the Panama Defence Force , whose local headquarters is only about 300 yards from our house . |
| 3 | ‘ She insisted we did n't see the show before the first night , ’ explained Waterman . |
| 4 | But we did n't see any of that ; we did n't notice that , as O later put it , his eyes were n't just dark that night but almost blinded , blinded with grief . |
| 5 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
| 6 | We did n't see anything . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We did n't see anything at all . ’ |
| 8 | No , we did n't see it , but we were on the scene soon afterwards . |
| 9 | Christie , who has already signed money-spinning deals with Lucozade and clothing firm High and Mighty since Barcelona , said : ‘ We did n't see why we should pay for a visa when we were prepared to take part in races for nothing . |
| 10 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure we did n't see her again though . |
| 12 | Perhaps they are pests to a lot of people , but we did n't see too many flies around our estate during the hot summer , so they had their uses . |
| 13 | Rattlesnakes are supposed to be common , though they are generally shy and silent and we did n't see any trace of them . |
| 14 | We did n't see the Seychelles scops owl , which is nocturnal and usually only seen if a tape-recording is played at night , nor did we get the little Seychelles white-eye , but I am not concerned . |
| 15 | ‘ We did n't see any point in hanging around . |
| 16 | We did n't see these worksheets as just to be doled out , but as positive steps to increasing children 's awareness of the library and how to use it . |
| 17 | And we did n't see the warning signs and then when we had this serious situation it er it it nearly it nearly swamped us . |
| 18 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 19 | He said , ‘ We did n't see a great deal of one another , it 's true ; but I was fond of Jay . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We did n't see any point in hanging around . |
| 21 | Oh well to be quite truthful we did n't see the police around very often . |
| 22 | Fortunately we did n't see any . |
| 23 | There are tigers there , and there 's leopards and things called sloth bears , a sort of bear , but they 're actually quite rare so er we did n't see any of those , apart from the rhinos , we went very very quietly crawled under the undergrowth and we saw them in a water hole and they were just bathing there . |
| 24 | But he was laid up after that and we did n't see him for days . |
| 25 | We did n't see any orchids but we did see some beautiful foxgloves and were lucky enough to catch sight of birds high above . |
| 26 | Every road junction has a multitude of signposts in a variety of languages , but we did n't see on that would have directed us to the Roman site . |
| 27 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 28 | We did n't see the scale of the thing . |
| 29 | Do n't think we did n't see you around when Claude Rains made with the Lindbergh act , by the way . |
| 30 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |