Example sentences of "we [verb] n't [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 2 | In a clear reference to last June 's revelations by Royal writer Andrew Morton in his best-seller Diana : Her True Story , the spokesman added : ‘ We did n't in the summer and we do n't intend to now . ’ |
| 3 | We do n't on the whole mind the isolation until something happens to rock the applecart — a death , a loss , a crisis . |
| 4 | You may say we 've robbed Peter to pay Paul , and there 's some truth in that , but we have n't at the end of the day gone further than that . |
| 5 | ‘ We have n't as a rule the problems of the petrochemical industry , where some parts of the industry in the past put in huge new additional capacity and got gross over-production . |