Example sentences of "[noun] we did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all of that time on the continent we did not encounter one set of road works , one traffic jam or one police car . |
| 2 | But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays . |
| 3 | In our list of authors we did not include Enid Blyton or Captain W. E. Johns , author of the Biggles stories . |
| 4 | proper returns adequate for our audit have been received from all branches we did not visit ; |
| 5 | There were other voices we did not recognize . |
| 6 | Since in connection with this American libel we did not employ Mr Quintin Hogg , I wrote him a short letter and received a courteous reply : The third occasion when we instituted proceedings was several years later , in 1971 , when Harold Wilson was back in opposition , and related to the activities of the BBC , which produced a thoroughly incompetent piece of television called Yesterday 's Men . |
| 7 | Erm in response to er Miss Whittaker 's question we did not hear of anything special in this county that justifies the policy in excess of that exceeds should I say erm national guidance . |
| 8 | We did not look at the histological correlate of the inflammatory mediators as for ethical reasons we did not perform sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy . |
| 9 | Secondly , for historical reasons we did not hold records of National Insurance numbers on the payroll file ( and could not easily add them ) . |
| 10 | And of course we did not possess a fire-extinguisher . |
| 11 | In his skeleton argument , although of course we did not hear it developed , the Attorney-General contended that it is a mixed question of law and fact . |
| 12 | We gave them two addresses to which they could write in case we did not return and told them where our more precious belongings were . |
| 13 | In this case we did not take sufficient care . |
| 14 | As the train stood on the platform we did not know if we would ever board it . |
| 15 | Unlike in other studies we did not find any perceptible effect due to sex . |
| 16 | Now we know differently , having opened our door after dark to persons we did not know or recognise . |
| 17 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 18 | That was one of the things we did not know . |
| 19 | Is not it a pity that when we had the chance we did not finish the job ? |
| 20 | One night we did not sleep at all . |
| 21 | We did not speak in the corridors there , indeed after nine o'clock at night we did not speak at all . |
| 22 | I was much too frightened to do so , having been told that the unbaptised would be consigned to hell , and — what was even worse — that in the eyes of God we did not exist . |
| 23 | The one subject we did not talk about was why the senator had flown to Straker 's Cay to meet me . |
| 24 | In Casualty we did not report for duty , we came aboard ; we worked watches , not shifts ; when we went off duty we went ashore ; on our days off we took the liberty boat . |
| 25 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 26 | For this reason we did not work with families who had lost an infant : instead we investigated the ordinary patterns of beliefs about infants and their care in two different populations , mothers of Welsh and Bangladeshi infants in Cardiff . |
| 27 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 28 | Before its commencement we did not know how the ENP would be received in the department or indeed whether the proposed scheme would turn out to be a workable one . |
| 29 | Having five instead of six bolts on some of the wheels was a risk we did not like taking . |
| 30 | To our pleasant surprise we did not have long to wait before hearing that my application for transfer to Felixstowe had been successful . |