Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] not [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they want two extra extensions you see in a certain area , we obviously do n't know that |
| 2 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 3 | Well well we 're gon na do it anyway cos we just have n't got enough room |
| 4 | We 've got enough mop heads brush heads rather , we just have n't got any , not connected to the brushes . |
| 5 | erm It keeps it going that way because you know , six games unbeaten , it 's nice , it 's nice to be unbeaten , but we just have n't won enough have we ? |
| 6 | Well , even if I were qualified , I would be very , very sceptical , because I think we just do n't know enough about that yet . |
| 7 | We just do n't know those . |
| 8 | ‘ We just do n't have that kind of liturgy , ’ is the excuse that is often heard . |
| 9 | ‘ We just do n't have enough food to go round , ’ says Phoebe . |
| 10 | On losing to a late goal he added : ‘ We just did n't get that bit of fortune you need — perhaps we 'll have it in May at Wembley instead . ’ |
| 11 | we just did n't get any |
| 12 | One of our major industrial problems is that we usually do not ask enough of our people . |
| 13 | But we deliberately do n't have much food in the fridge — that way , we keep temptation at bay ! ’ |
| 14 | But of course , we still did n't have all the machines we wanted . ’ |
| 15 | But we still do n't know much about the man himself apart from his age ( 59 ) , and that he went to Shrewsbury School at the same time as Michael Heseltine . |
| 16 | ‘ We now have a very healthy nationwide membership that 's growing all the time , but I 'm afraid we still do n't have many members from Newquay , supposedly the country 's surf capital . |
| 17 | ‘ We still do n't see any sign of an upturn at all , ’ said a Peugeot executive . |
| 18 | Although we still have not had any snow , storms are expected . |
| 19 | During the first year we probably did n't give enough time to training . |
| 20 | Indeed , people begin to talk about under-developed Britain , or under-developing Britain , so that we now do n't see this sharp division between British problems as a developed country , and developing countries ' problems in Zambia , or Chile , or wherever , or India . |
| 21 | We have some facilities , but they 're not extensive and we often do n't have enough room . |
| 22 | We talk a lot about those thermal plumes but we really do n't know much about them . |
| 23 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 24 | We 've done a review of the service , we did a review of field centres , we really do not accept that one area , no matter how worthwhile and I 've talked to you |
| 25 | ‘ I enjoy playing with Gala because they seek to spin the ball where possible but we really have n't played all that well this season , mainly because we have n't been able to win enough quality ball . |
| 26 | We really have n't discussed these things , have we ? ’ |
| 27 | We simply do not have any clear conception of what form a transition from capitalism to socialism would take , above all because there is no convincing historical experience of such a transition . |
| 28 | ‘ We simply do not have enough money . ’ |
| 29 | We simply do not have enough evidence yet to back up the claim that ‘ people are almost certainly ill , dead , or dying because of these sloppy waste disposal activities ’ ( Openshaw et al. 1989 : 12 ) . |
| 30 | In accounting , we simply do not know enough to be able to measure this . |