Example sentences of "we [vb past] [not/n't] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She insisted we did n't see the show before the first night , ’ explained Waterman . |
| 2 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
| 3 | We did n't see the Seychelles scops owl , which is nocturnal and usually only seen if a tape-recording is played at night , nor did we get the little Seychelles white-eye , but I am not concerned . |
| 4 | And we did n't see the warning signs and then when we had this serious situation it er it it nearly it nearly swamped us . |
| 5 | Oh well to be quite truthful we did n't see the police around very often . |
| 6 | We did n't see the scale of the thing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I do n't think we have the copy here did we , we did n't see the letter . |
| 9 | We did not see the signal as it was fast approaching time for our departure from York , but just before we left Mr Hopkin he informed us that there were also tickets , buttons , maybe som small brass fittings , an 1864 rail chair and possibly the original chimney of Carlisle from before her 1924 heavy overhaul . |
| 10 | We will be asked why we did not see the importance of the emerging European bloc on our doorstep . |
| 11 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 12 | There was no level-crossing gate and we had not seen the rails , which were sunk deep into the tarmac , nor a red light winking on top of a very high pole . |
| 13 | We had not seen the Nile proper since Aswan , only the lake . |
| 14 | It happened at the time of the National Junior Championships in Nottingham and we had n't seen the television that morning . |
| 15 | We had n't seen the National Guard yet . |
| 16 | I thought we had n't seen the last of her . ’ |