Example sentences of "we [vb mod] n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things should be made easier ; after all actors come from all walks of life and we should n't keep them out . |
| 2 | Anyway if you 're feeling like this maybe we should n't watch the match — you might start attacking me . ’ |
| 3 | It would be good for the Hong Kong citizens , and it would be inconsistent for Thatcher not to do this , since she has said , for the Falklands , that a people should be able to choose their own government , and we should n't give in to dictatorships . |
| 4 | We should n't pick on these people . |
| 5 | I wonder who first decided that we should n't eat mustard with lamb ? |
| 6 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ We should n't fight it . |
| 8 | I was very upset by your note saying we should n't write to each other any more . |
| 9 | I know I do n't need to tell you , but for the record , I will have to clear all this in Oxford and so we should n't get too far down the line . |
| 10 | ‘ We should n't — cut — ’ said Maud . |
| 11 | We should n't intervene . ’ |
| 12 | Gilda : ‘ If we were ordinary , moral , high-thinking citizens we should n't have had an affair at all . ’ |
| 13 | Living happily ever after may not be so common these days , but as we have a much greater life expectancy , perhaps we should n't expect too much of only one marriage . |
| 14 | I 'm not suggesting that we should n't care about these little games and trifling details of life , for God wants us to practise on them in this world ; but I would like to see us not so strained and frantic in our concern about them . |
| 15 | We feel guilty about sins of commission and sins of omission — when we have done something we should n't or when we have not done something we should . |
| 16 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |
| 17 | ‘ But — but would that mean we should n't have our Pack Meetings each week , Trusty ? ’ she asked in a tone that meant she just could n't believe in such an awful thing happening . |
| 18 | She even claims to be the government 's science policy coordinator — a role we should n't attach too much weight too , according to Mrs Thatcher , who once told New Scientist off for inflating this part of her job beyond what she really had in mind . |
| 19 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 20 | In turn , we should n't try to take anything away from Allan for that night ; he ran really well , a true champion 's performance . |
| 21 | ‘ We should n't have took umbrage this morning , only — what with the people down here being so stand-offish , like , we got sort of sensitive about sausages . |
| 22 | The group had had numerous discussions about whether or not they should have a rotating chairperson , some people arguing fiercely that we should n't imitate male structures , that we were developing genuinely new ways of relating , conducting political discussions ; we must all learn to be more sensitive , not interrupt each other , not talk for too long . |
| 23 | We should n't be doing this ! |
| 24 | We should n't be doing it — we 're walking into danger ! |
| 25 | We should n't keep up ? |
| 26 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
| 27 | While it is true that we should n't ‘ show off ’ our new slim figure , there 's nothing wrong in making the most of it . |
| 28 | As children , we learn that we should n't daydream . |
| 29 | Guilt is not a true emotion ; it is a cover-up for other feelings which we feel we should n't have . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps we should n't talk like this , ’ she said primly . |