Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did not realise we had guests . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ British soldiers are the best in the world , ’ a schoolmaster told his class , adding , for the benefit of the Kindertransporte pupils , ‘ You people did not think we had it in us . ’ |
| 3 | We thus engage in cultural confrontations in which we suddenly perceive how our vision is clouded and distorted by hidden assumptions that we did not know we entertained . |
| 4 | If we do not evolve we stagnate and rot . |
| 5 | As Cohen ( 1984 : 227 ) points out : ‘ by detachment I do not mean we have to distance ourselves emotionally ; that I think would be perverse . |
| 6 | In a sense , we do not feel we have any direct competitor in Paris . |
| 7 | ‘ Given a level playing field , I do not feel we have much to fear , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I do not think we get much further by supposing that Jesus gave two insufflations of his Holy Spirit , one in John 's upper room , and one at Luke 's Pentecost . |
| 9 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever our mistakes — and we made some — I truly do not think we deserved this . ’ |
| 11 | Personally , I do not think we need an alternative god to look up to . |
| 12 | For myself , I do not think we need to be quite so pessimistic . |
| 13 | I repeat , however : I do not think we face war . |
| 14 | I do not think we have enough police living locally . |
| 15 | I do not think we do this . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps there are even some who do not realize we have a magazine , and all those who do know and have supported it in the past , do you really want the magazine to die and be no more ? |
| 17 | We did n't think we had a right to judge . |
| 18 | I did n't think we had been . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't think we had any chance of catching him but I just kept shoving and shouting and he got there in the end , ’ said Antoinette . |
| 20 | No I did n't think we had . |
| 21 | ‘ If we did n't think we had a chance of winning the election we could have produced a manifesto that promised the earth , ’ said party chairman Kees Maxey . |
| 22 | I did n't think we played poorly . |
| 23 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 24 | I did n't think we 'd done anything about that this year . |
| 25 | I did n't think we 'd started . |
| 26 | if Brian did n't think we needed it then it did n't even get a lookout let alone er er resources allocated to it . |
| 27 | Cos he did n't think we wanted one . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't think we helped much on Jimmy Shine , ’ said Yates . |
| 29 | Did n't realise we got the shafts again now . |
| 30 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |