Example sentences of "but we [verb] n't [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but we do n't mention that , we just have cos she was pissed . |
| 2 | And Akram admitted last night : ‘ This might start further accusations of ball-tampering but we do n't care any more . |
| 3 | We 're resistant to it not for any dogmatic reason but we do n't feel that local democracy is necessarily improved by the County Council d d ducking it 's decision . |
| 4 | ‘ But we do n't attach much store to who is the biggest . |
| 5 | But we do n't do much beyond that , maybe we should . |
| 6 | But we do n't do that . |
| 7 | I like them , they 've brought us central heating an' that , but we do n't want all these roads cutting into the green belt ; and you ca n't sneak up on anybody now when they can hear you coming a mile off . |
| 8 | Just routine , Peter , but we do n't want that drunken fool getting into mischief . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll walk the course before racing , but we do n't want much more rain , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Your pardon , my lady , ’ apologised Ellen , ‘ but we do n't want those dreadful creatures following us all the way down the street . ’ |
| 11 | But we do n't want any accidents . ’ |
| 12 | The replies were versions of , ‘ He is a brave man for talking out about corruption , but he is too unstable to make a leader , ’ and ‘ We village people are all stupid , we know that , but we do n't want another war . ’ |
| 13 | The message is : we want instant gratification , but we do n't think any of you can deliver it . |
| 14 | ‘ The German news said it had fallen , but we do n't believe that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ People come to us and say , ‘ Tone down the message and we 'll talk to you ’ , but we do n't accept that . |
| 16 | ‘ But we do n't fling half bricks into the water because that is as likely to endanger fish as it is anybody else . ’ |
| 17 | One , two , three , four , five , six but we do n't need seven |
| 18 | My amp 's a Marshall JCM900 top and a 4x12 , but we do n't use artificial , like , electronic distortions . |
| 19 | ‘ Probably not but we do n't take any risks . ’ |
| 20 | But we do n't hear many people , on a road like that . |
| 21 | But we do n't know any details yet . |
| 22 | But we do n't get that now , they get South African 's now do n't they and they get Italians and French and there 's all sorts of things but they 're not as nice as the Californian fruit . |
| 23 | and that sort of thing , you know re-programming and upgrade , but we do n't get that now because the er , the dealers are filtering all that sort of work off |
| 24 | But we do n't get sick the way you are now . |
| 25 | I mean okay so we 're here , but so are elephants and fruit flies and centipedes and tape worms and things erm nothing special about us. erm we 're rather successful right now , but we do n't play any very special role . |
| 26 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |
| 27 | They 're not something we can do without Secretary of State authorization , that will take time , and as Mr just mentioned , the budget , and we are still proceeding with that budget , but we do n't have extra money to do this within that budget at the moment , so , yes , we have n't ignored the problem . |
| 28 | ‘ But we do n't have many holiday houses lying empty for the better part of the year , ’ said one local , proudly . |
| 29 | But we do n't have any privacy . |
| 30 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |