Example sentences of "we [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We did n't mean to be bad , Mother , ’ cried Bobbie . |
| 2 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 3 | When the Manchester thing was happening we did ‘ The Beast Inside ’ because we did n't want to be part of what was going on . |
| 4 | ‘ We did n't want to be another Surrey , where Rudi Bryson has been a disaster . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We did n't want to be press barons ’ , observes Miles . |
| 6 | Er the work that I 've referred to earlier in terms of the through traffic , was assessed before the southern bypass was open er and so we did put in place er a traffic automatic traffic counters on a number of key routes er to see whether on opening of the southern bypass , the actual effects er where the same as we were modelling cos clearly we were concerned that we did n't want to be er basing our assessments of of of of further relief roads on a false premise . |
| 7 | We did n't want to be too specific at the moment . |
| 8 | well that 's what I said to you , but we did n't want to er visit again this weekend did we ? , with last weekend |
| 9 | er because er her children but erm say that we we did n't want to sort of upset her by erm you know |
| 10 | we did n't go to school after all , is n't it ? |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | Oh we did n't go to bingo . |
| 13 | this guy got absolutely marvellous but they were full of it and they said we just learned it we did n't , we did n't go to school or anything like that , we |
| 14 | Well we erm we did n't go to bed till did we ? |
| 15 | We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft . |
| 16 | ‘ But I told them if we could n't beat them without a boom , we did n't deserve to be in the finals . ’ |
| 17 | He did n't he did n't approve of it , so you , we did n't talk to your husband about it . |
| 18 | But I think we do as a council , support that Sports Centre very well at the moment , which we did n't expect to be doing . |
| 19 | Yeah but did n't , we did n't write to our MPs though . |
| 20 | For instance , after that dreadful murder on Wimbledon Common , we did n't say to women that they should n't go there but that they should stick to main paths , with other people rather than alone . ’ |
| 21 | But we did n't say to each other , to each other , it was n't like , now we 're both buying these mugs , jointly , sort of thing . |
| 22 | ‘ Team spirit reached an all time low on this one , but at least we did n't come to blows , ’ added Chris . |
| 23 | No , we did n't come to the , oh yes we did , sorry , yes ! |
| 24 | We did n't object to the buses going down Station Lane before . |
| 25 | We knew he was sick but we did n't know to what extent and he did n't want any sympathy . |
| 26 | But we did n't have to , what I mean the point is that we did n't have to tell , have to tell them , they already knew . |
| 27 | You said , we did n't have to be exact . |
| 28 | And if we did n't get to the very top , well , it was near enough , was n't it ? |
| 29 | On the first attempt we did n't get to the top . |
| 30 | Compared to this little middle-aged lot , we did n't get to first base ! |