Example sentences of "we [vb past] [not/n't] make " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He ca n't say that we did n't make an attempt . ’ |
2 | We did n't make Abisko , chickening out as the weather worsened and the forecasts began to sound even more dire . |
3 | Wayne wrote : ‘ There are now and there were then ( in the early Forties ) a tight group of Communist conspirators in our midst … we did n't make ‘ Hollywood ’ and ‘ Red ’ synonymous . |
4 | We did n't make enough chances . |
5 | On our first day we headed for that beautiful beach … but we did n't make it the temptation was too great to lounge by probably the largest and most stunning freshwater pool in the Canaries . |
6 | We did n't make a sale , though we did make contacts that would n't have been available to us otherwise . |
7 | We did n't make many runs despite Ward 's gallantry and lost easily . |
8 | ‘ We did n't make it to the Bazaar last night . |
9 | But party organiser Ossie Tortoishell , 78 , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't even 10 o'clock and we did n't make that much noise . ’ |
10 | I got married twenty three years ago in China , well , we just invite er , invited er our friends , and er former school mates to ma , to my home and we did n't make any vow , er we just gave a banquet to the friends , and er , in China people now can get married in many ways and er some foreigners have come to China to get married in a traditional Chinese way , and they have to er , carry their bride in a sedan chair . |
11 | And we did n't make them up . |
12 | I thi I mean there were quite a number of people , I would say on the flats that we did n't make contact with at all . |
13 | I assume we did n't make a loss on it . |
14 | Er and as John said , one or two of them were probably relevant and we did n't make er notes on those . |
15 | I did n't go because I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming passion for him , we did n't make love on the tiger-skin rug in that little box of a room you gave him , his pear-shaped body pressed against my ageing but still voluptuous frame . ’ |
16 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
17 | We did n't make enough of the opportunity that we had er in the attacking third . |
18 | We did n't make a move without approval of the Buying Room at Ipswich , this was the power base of the Company , the team was led by ( Mr Jim ) , ( Pop ) and . |
19 | ‘ Well , we did n't make it too apparent immediately . ’ |
20 | The worst , the worst possible scenario , would be a need to reduce I think two investigative , if we did n't make any appointments now , a need to reduce er by up to two investigators , should be also including one next year . |
21 | ‘ We did n't make a wager , ’ she said quickly . |
22 | Last season we did n't make the play offs . |
23 | We did n't make the decision to find out , look I 've got a complimentary ticket , and perhaps I do n't have to queue here , perhaps I might have to , but I 'll go and find out . |
24 | We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) . |
25 | ‘ Looking back , I 'm glad we did not make any records because we were rubbish . |
26 | We did not make a direct trip for we took the train to London , then I made my first underground journey to Finsbury Park , the most northerly point on the tube at that time . |
27 | Graham Frater , our HMI Observer , continually reminded us of the hordes of textbook publishers who might reduce our recommendations to a series of useless exercises if we did not make our rationale abundantly clear . |
28 | Unfortunately we did not make this clear and we would like to apologise for any embarrassment caused . |
29 | The epistemological importance of such an exercise is evident , as is the fact that care would have to be taken to avoid circularity , to ensure that we did not make the credibility of a claim to knowledge depend upon beliefs that were not in the foundation . |
30 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |