Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb past] not [verb] [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 | ‘ On a couple of occasions we just did not get the bounce of the ball . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We simply had not evolved a theory and practice of teacher-training that works . |
| 6 | We simply did not know the extent to which English people are taught to despise us . |