Example sentences of "we [verb] not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse than this , we tend not only to limit ourselves to looking at faces , but also to be preoccupied with whether they smile or not . |
| 2 | She also conceded , however , ‘ We tend not routinely to inform GPs . |
| 3 | How hopeless and ludicrous everything was : the seas of incomprehension , the misunderstandings that could never be cleared up because we seemed not only to speak different languages but to inhabit different countries . |
| 4 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 5 | This was to pay dividends , and we had not long to wait . |
| 6 | To understand the specific nature of the abnormality experienced by disabled people we have not only to document a general failure to provide for needs . |
| 7 | We learn not only to give and receive love , but to become Love . |