Example sentences of "what we did [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we did not know , he said , was the effect of strenuous exercise combined with the wrong kind of stress . |
| 2 | What we did not see were any examples of pupil-centred enquiry methods being employed by teachers and using materials specifically purchased for this purpose with project funds , as predicted in the proposal documents . |
| 3 | Not all of us have had those good experiences , but we can recapture in later life what we did not find in childhood . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've always known what we did n't want our music to sound like , but we never realised that out of all that chaos we 'd sound so laid back . ’ |
| 5 | What we did n't eat ourselves , we shared ; the most needy receiving the most , then a descending scale for everybody else . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What we did n't relish was queuing up again in the gloom of the stairwell to get it . |
| 8 | So I would be best to lay lay down the law straight away , what we needed , and what we did n't need . |
| 9 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
| 10 | You could borrow there stock , is that what you 're thinking and then take back what we did n't sell . |
| 11 | They learn , as Elizabeth said earlier , you know , we 're models and children learn more by what we do more than what we preach , so you know we do have to repair what we did n't learn maybe earlier on . |