Example sentences of "we do not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood ready with the boat-hook to make sure we did n't bump against the rocks of the mooring . |
| 2 | We did n't think about the fact that the ups and downs of running a business could mean an end to a friendship — in fact , we 're probably better friends for it . ’ |
| 3 | Well we did n't think about now . |
| 4 | But we did n't think about it because it was so Well I was so excited . |
| 5 | ‘ We did n't think of it before … and it 's not something John likes to talk about . |
| 6 | We did n't think of that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Pity we did n't think of it ourselves , ’ he continued wryly . |
| 8 | ‘ You have to realise , ’ he said , ‘ that we did n't think in terms of a Jewish state and an Arab state . |
| 9 | We did n't care about the magazine we just wanted to trace back the gold chain see who handled it . |
| 10 | We did n't fit in the last one . |
| 11 | ‘ We did n't mean to be bad , Mother , ’ cried Bobbie . |
| 12 | We started with a clean sheet of paper , we did n't start with one of our earlier proprietary products and try and convert that to Unix , try to move that into the open systems world . |
| 13 | We did n't start at the top in those days . |
| 14 | We did n't start as stars , struggling to overcome an excess of charm and good looks . |
| 15 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We did n't want to be another Surrey , where Rudi Bryson has been a disaster . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We did n't want to be press barons ’ , observes Miles . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We did n't want to be too specific at the moment . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | er because er her children but erm say that we we did n't want to sort of upset her by erm you know |
| 23 | We did six tracks with Chris , but we did n't gel with him at all , we needed someone who could offer more inspiration . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't compete in the first half and if we miss tackles like that we 're not going to beat anybody . |
| 25 | The wa the river water 's very very polluted there , so a lot of people got tummy bugs and we slept er on the side of the river in little tents and erm we did n't discover till afterwards , two things , one thing was that the little holes that we saw in the sand were actually scorpion holes |
| 26 | ‘ We did n't speak for ages as there were so many complications with debt and the record company . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that we did n't check on Elsie , as much as we could … ’ |
| 28 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 29 | We did n't arrive on the scene until that deal had fallen down . |
| 30 | Although we did n't arrive until nearly midnight , it was still an early call next morning for breakfast , after which came the tricky task of packing our saddle-bags . |