Example sentences of "we do [not/n't] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do n't find something soon that 's it ! ’ |
| 2 | We have a network of contacts across the country , and if we do n't find the bands , we 'll follow up on someone who has . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I hope we do n't find those poor men , Joe , ’ I whispered . |
| 4 | ‘ If you mean we do n't know much about being alone because we do n't find it difficult , that 's true . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But they will die in eight minutes and twenty-two seconds — if we do n't find the machine that cleans air quickly . ’ |
| 6 | But if we do n't find each other , do n't worry , come home straight after the fireworks . |
| 7 | But we do n't find , if you like at the top end of the corporate finance market , that they are yet as significant a competitor as are er rivals among the leading firms . |
| 8 | Sadly , you see , there 's quite a lot about the Trust which we do n't find particularly sympathetic . |
| 9 | I doubt very much whether we 'll have a score on that because it tends to be that we do n't find out what happens in Italy until er the following morning . |
| 10 | The Fourth Gospel , for example , does not lie when it puts into the mouth of Christ words , and whole patterns of speech , which we do not find on His lips in the first three gospels . |
| 11 | There are times when we do not find each other attractive and even feel like we are not in love . |
| 12 | ‘ In Candide it says , ‘ If we do not find anything pleasant , at least we shall find something new . ’ |
| 13 | But in either case , in studies using light microscopy , scanning electron microscopy ( which reveals surface details ) , or transmission electron microscopy ( which lets us see the basal epidermal layer ) , we do not find lamellipodia at the epidermal wound front in either the basal or the peridermal layer . |
| 14 | We do not find such an explanation satisfactory . |
| 15 | We do not find in scenes like this the sudden fissures which , hinting at the Catholic underworld of sin , turn Sutherland 's landscapes into battlegrounds . |
| 16 | We do not find that any other authority clashes with our present judgement , which must be in favour of the defendant . |
| 17 | We do not find this to be the case . |
| 18 | We do not find this to be the case . |
| 19 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 20 | We do not find after or , , so that for example ‘ sullen ’ must be pronounced , ‘ Christian ’ as ( though this word may be pronounced with plus or instead of ) and ‘ pigeon ’ as . |