Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Baker , the secretary of state , told Congress recently that his review of Middle East policy convinced him long before the invasion of Kuwait that the ‘ old view that we somehow did not want the Soviets involved is a mistake ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , we just do n't have a lot of choice here . |
| 3 | I do n't want to survive only on donations , but we just do n't have the resources to buy much . |
| 4 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |
| 5 | We just do not have the information to go on . ’ |
| 6 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 7 | We just do not know the natures we are supposed to know , or how various properties follow from them . |
| 8 | Torquay boss Paul Compton said : ‘ This was another typical Yeovil giant-killing act and we just did n't have an answer . ’ |
| 9 | as if we just did n't have the words for them . |
| 10 | PUB regulars admitted today : ‘ We just did n't have the heart to burn Johnny the Guy . ’ |
| 11 | And , like , we left him there for about five minutes and we just did n't hear a thing |
| 12 | ‘ On a couple of occasions we just did not get the bounce of the ball . |
| 13 | The year began with cold clammy fogs , and although some industry had come to a standstill because of workers called to the colours , and factories bombed by the enemy , we still did not have the Clean Air Act , and there was still quite a lot of smoke from domestic fires , and from the slack coal burnt by factories making munitions . |
| 14 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 15 | We still do n't give a damn that X died last Sunday . |
| 16 | We still do n't get no respect . |
| 17 | That shows how much energy is available , and it is very attractive to try and harness this , but since the turn of the century there have been over a hundred patented devices to extract energy from the waves , but we still do n't have a single commercial one operating . |
| 18 | I hardly like to point out , sir , that we still do n't have the names and addresses of those banks . ’ |
| 19 | We still do not have a proper address for Nanking , but I 'll try to sent it to you soon , as I understand a comrade from Nanking is coming to see us here to make arrangements for our visit there . |
| 20 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 21 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 22 | We still do not know the full story of Brixton ; therefore , we do not know the truth . |
| 23 | We nearly did n't have a season at all until we got Aschmann . ’ |
| 24 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 25 | If to be in crisis means that the whole system is on the brink of total collapse or explosion , then we probably do not have a crisis . |
| 26 | does , , he came in one day and I said that we really do n't travel a lot you know |
| 27 | seventy five per cent way up , now there 's something in the human spirit that actually says I would like to change that , but we really do n't want the children to die in Somalia do we ? |
| 28 | Then your then your feelings perhaps do n't matter in the overall picture of the education , but bearing in , looking at the teachers in our school , we , we really do n't have a weak teacher except perhaps Mr , who 's obviously not been well these last three years , erm |
| 29 | I have become convinced that our whole approach is hopelessly unscientific , in fact wrong , and particularly that my own reconstruction is so fundamentally flawed that we really do n't have the right to be displaying it anywhere except in a Disneyland type of amusement park . ’ |
| 30 | Ruth Batsford , of the council 's electoral registration office , said : ‘ We really do n't have an explanation why people are n't sending the forms back . |