Example sentences of "we [vb past] 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 . |