Example sentences of "we [verb] not [adv] [verb] " 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 | But it 's all we do we do n't even sell cake decorations or equipment . |
| 4 | So we ca n't we do n't usually talk about ligand gated channels being sodium channels , they 'll normally pass more than one type of cation fairly non-selectively , they do n't really mind . |
| 5 | But you see we do n't really need a chainsaw do we ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We export not only form and content but western economics-based theories of media regulation that serve the interests of transnationals rather than those of peoples . |
| 8 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 9 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 10 | Because there are plenty of other areas that this will we have n't even started on hotels yet . |
| 11 | he may be eligible to be on a training course , for what we do n't know , but er after you 've been unemployed six months you are either required to or you have the opportunity to , or you can go on a state training course but what they train you for or to do we , we have n't actually got defined yet . |
| 12 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |
| 13 | We did n't exactly get the bird but they just could n't handle it — they did n't know what sort of music we were playing . |
| 14 | We did n't exactly hit it off . ’ |
| 15 | We did n't even mention the stitches ! |
| 16 | I mean then we did n't even go into Fulford , we stopped there . |
| 17 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 18 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 19 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 20 | For the second question and answer we did n't even bother to load the camera , though as a matter of courtesy , we let him carry on bawling . |
| 21 | We must confess we did n't even bother calling Intel Corp last issue so it could confirm or deny our story of severe allocations of Pentiums throughout all of 1993 ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 22 | We did n't even think about it . |
| 23 | April/May they were in , taking rock samples out and at that time we did n't even think they were looking for gold … |
| 24 | You mean go back on them , cos we did n't finish them cos there was three pallets and we did n't even do two . |
| 25 | ‘ We did n't even contemplate anything else . |
| 26 | We did n't even finish the last table . |
| 27 | And he was gone , we did n't even answer , and Caroline was looking after him , and shrugging and looking at me and saying , well , really . |
| 28 | So , then , then we got into it he said I 'm sorry I thought you made yourselves homeless , cos you just wanted to come home , I said no , way , I said we did n't even want to come home , I said we were very professional people |
| 29 | ‘ We were so fed up we did n't even push the beds together for our wedding night . |
| 30 | We did n't even realize that they organized their labour collectively , until Panic Buying ( a great '70s pastime , Panic Buying — of salt , sugar and so on ) set in at the beginning of November . |