Example sentences of "we [vb past] [not/n't] find " in BNC.

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1 With little or no bubbles to speak of , we did n't find this sweet and flowery wine easy to drink .
2 And housing boss Donald Gledson stressed : ‘ We did n't find it very funny , especially as his argument is with the planning department .
3 Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing .
4 We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door .
5 We did n't find it at Ward 's house . ’
6 ‘ No , Alex , we did n't find Ace or Christine .
7 Of course I asked him to look carefully at the locked room , but we did n't find anything important . ’
8 I 'd be surprised at the end of the day if er we did n't find a solution that would enable John Macgregor to go forward .
9 We did not find scientific justification in our report to the Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance for Peter O Behan and B A G Haniffah 's statement about the immunogenicity of gangliosides .
10 We did not find an association between smoking and the grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , and so our data do not support the hypothesis that cigarette smoke has a direct mutagenic effect on the cervical epithelium .
11 Unlike in other studies we did not find any perceptible effect due to sex .
12 Platelet mRNA was used as a negative control , since we did not find any expression of this gene by RT-PCR or CE .
13 Not all of us have had those good experiences , but we can recapture in later life what we did not find in childhood .
14 But we did not find any sign of Stapleton .
15 We did not find a correlation between disturbed gastric emptying , impaired gall bladder contraction , and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy ; also , there was no correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or longstanding history of diabetes .
16 Unlike Appleton et al , we did not find complete linkage between CCPR and tumour yield .
17 We did not find it feasible , however , because of potential ethical problems , to collect bile from such a patient group .
18 We did not find a significant association between laminin concentrations and portal hypertension in our patients with cirrhosis , and laminin concentration had insufficient sensitivity , specificity , efficiency , and predictability to be clinically relable in the detection of portal hypertension .
19 Although the application of NIPPV on a general ward has been described as a difficult and time-consuming procedure for nurses we did not find this to be the case .
20 If we did not find it , we would have to lay more water pipes .
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