Example sentences of "not [verb] how we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the Houses of Parliament , or even a debate in the Chamber , does not explain how we are governed . |
| 2 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 3 | I do not know how we can make that judgment until we have seen the texture of the decision that we are being asked to make . |
| 4 | ( At a meeting I attended recently about Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses someone said , ‘ You do not understand how we have been insulted ; it is as though someone had raped my daughter . ’ |
| 5 | After a short while the new way of moving begins to feel less strange and sometimes we can not understand how we could have moved so clumsily for so many years without realizing it . |
| 6 | I do not understand how we are supposed to have a system which deals best with the most difficult parts of the Community but which makes matters worse in Scotland and Wales , but that is what the scheme does . |
| 7 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 8 | As we have no continuous contemporary account of the persecution of Antiochus IV and of the Maccabean reaction , I do not see how we can decide whether any Psalm may be labelled as Maccabean . |
| 9 | I do not see how we can separate principle from practice , policy from implementation . |
| 10 | I du n no what role Wilko has in this , but I can not see how we need money . |
| 11 | I do not have a copy of the previous Readyguide to hand and can not remember how we introduced this . |
| 12 | The trouble with this formulation is that it does not suggest how we can be sure as to just what is the constitutional set-up , and this is a particular problem once we recognise that the power of particular institutions is subject to change and that there are disputes as to what are ( and should be ) the fundamental practices and rules . |
| 13 | Astronomers in Tokyo took a picture but reported nothing visible , although they now say there was a bright object and ‘ we can not imagine how we missed it ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said Jack , ‘ I ca n't think how we ever got it up . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If ever we had to move , ’ said Edward to Joan one sunny afternoon , ‘ I ca n't think how we 'd begin to sort out this lot . ’ |
| 16 | We were waiting for Alfred to drop he gun , I do n't know how we knew he had one but we knew , and slowly he took it out of his waist and dropped it . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know how we did it . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know how we never heard them , ’ Phillis said . |
| 19 | I do n't know how we 're going to arrange it , ’ she said lightly . |
| 20 | I do n't know how we will manage Tom and Oliver , Kit has her difficult days , you know , but we will do our best . |
| 21 | For the next few weeks they went out one late night after another — ‘ I do n't know how we survived , ’ says Robert . |
| 22 | Whatever you think about sliced bread ( for myself , I detest it ) , we all know the expression meant we did n't know how we managed before it existed . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't know how we people of World 's End live , ’ she said quietly , ‘ so perhaps you would do well to stay indoors out of the way of any trouble . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't know how we 're going to do it , even if we work flat out every day . ’ |
| 25 | But , in all honesty , I do n't know how we got through those early days and I certainly would n't like to do so again . ’ |
| 26 | But I do n't know how we 'd go about that other than just writing to town councils . |
| 27 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |
| 28 | I do n't know how we shall get them out , because they are exhausted and probably they will find it difficult to walk . |
| 29 | I was oblivious to it all , but I do n't know how we managed , as agriculture suffered along with every other industry . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know how we 'll survive without him , I really do n't . ’ |