Example sentences of "[noun sg] we did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the other side we did n't have one at all , we did , it were just the path down . |
| 2 | In all of that time on the continent we did not encounter one set of road works , one traffic jam or one police car . |
| 3 | As we had already linked Imlil-Toubkal with the Nfis we did n't need to repeat that half to complete our explorations . |
| 4 | ‘ I must admit , when he came to the club we did n't hit it off . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the first attempt we did n't get to the top . |
| 7 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 8 | No wonder we did n't bomb them . |
| 9 | It 's a pity we did n't go yesterday |
| 10 | Over Jan 's , pity we did n't nick that were n't it ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Good job we did n't meet it coming the other way , then , ’ said Masklin . |
| 14 | Good job we did n't go to school after all , cos you 'd of run round in the playground , you 'd of been shattered ! oops , too late ! |
| 15 | But in the final analysis I thought it was such a shame we did n't hang on . |
| 16 | Its a shame we did n't have the slides , I think we 'd see more |
| 17 | Thank goodness we did n't put Michael with them . |
| 18 | ‘ There is a brilliant atmosphere at the club now and when I was at Forest we did n't have this sort of camaraderie . ’ |
| 19 | And er of course during the war we did n't have the freedom for making the stock that we we done prior to the war . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course we did n't open the doors , ’ said Grimma , as the digger began to go faster . |
| 21 | Of course we did n't leave it . ’ |
| 22 | And they er locked us out until we 'd go back for ten and thruppence a day , so of course we did n't go back . |
| 23 | but of course we did n't go |
| 24 | Of course we did n't realize that these would be erm students from from schools . |
| 25 | Well , well I do n't know , I think , well the men u of course we did n't use the French letters did we ? |
| 26 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 27 | Of course we did n't have servants , but my first bedroom was a little L-shaped room that must have been a maid 's room . |
| 28 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |
| 29 | Certainly , but then De Gaulle was only the most recent of a line of French national leaders , going back at least as far as Joan of Arc , who have seen in the English , through most of the centuries , their main enemy , whereas of course we did n't come across Germany internationally at all until within the last ninety years . |
| 30 | It was their first major flight away from the barn , and of course we did n't know then it was to be their last . |