Example sentences of "we [vb past] [not/n't] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that business about Linda — I know we agreed not to talk about it — but I feel such a shit out here . |
| 2 | ‘ I know , in spite of the fact that we agreed not to discuss it , it was all because of what had happened in the past , was n't it ? ’ |
| 3 | That 's why we agreed not to train her . |
| 4 | We feigned not to grasp the reference , though Durham City readers may understand it very well . |
| 5 | ‘ In fact , I think it might be better if we tried not to have any more contact with each other , do n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | We tried not to alarm our charges . |
| 7 | Or perhaps , for convenience , we pretended not to notice them . |
| 8 | ‘ It much more concerned us , ’ writes Baxter , ‘ to be sure that we deserved not suffering , than that we be delivered from it . ’ |
| 9 | Erm certainly we 'd not anticipated that it would outweigh existing structure plan policies or outweigh existing Policy E two . |
| 10 | If it had been genuine , they 'd have been on the phone quick enough if we 'd not arrived . |
| 11 | We decided not to kill them ; they could begin a new life on the island . |
| 12 | ‘ We decided not to go down this road last September , as we had considerable doubts about the financial arrangements . |
| 13 | And then we decided not to go to the Hanover Fair , so change the specification so that it could be a a versatile sort of display for whatever we wanted to display . |
| 14 | ‘ We decided not to go into debt to take part but it was still hard just to be a spectator , ’ said Steve . |
| 15 | And we decided not to record the meeting because we had objections which is fair enough . |
| 16 | Cooke said : ‘ Ian suffered haematoma and we decided not to risk him . |
| 17 | We decided not to do teas , you may remember . |
| 18 | Luckily for Chris , since we decided not to do this song at all on this tour , Otis disappears from the tour overnight . |
| 19 | It is for this reason that we decided not to input existing historical information to our CPIS ( though historical information would begin to build up from the launch date of the system , so providing an accurate historical background to an individual employee record ) . |
| 20 | We decided not to give more recent figures , for two reasons . |
| 21 | We decided not to wait and to content ourselves instead with the street exhibition that day . |
| 22 | So we decided not to buy the house . |
| 23 | But remember , we swore not to count the days , Isabel . |
| 24 | And this was in the 60s when high rise was so fashionable , but we managed not to have them in Washington . ’ |
| 25 | It was not all my imagination , this something came from her as well as from me — a joint umbilical cord , something we dared not speak of , of course , yet which we both knew was there . |
| 26 | ‘ We dared not come back together . |
| 27 | Yet we dared not leave the carriage for more than a mere leg-stretch just outside the door … |
| 28 | We did n't shout loud enough ; those who came left impressed , but kept quiet in order to preserve their own reputations . |
| 29 | I stood ready with the boat-hook to make sure we did n't bump against the rocks of the mooring . |
| 30 | So we did n't think much of it as a name at first but while Malcolm was away in the States , we somehow came round to it and decided to go with it . |