Example sentences of "we [verb] n't [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No we did n't that 's ten , that 's eleven , six , ten and then ten and then twelve and they |
| 2 | ‘ Oh do go on , ’ Harriet hovers above , laughing , ‘ it 's not as if we did n't all know how virtuous you feel . ’ |
| 3 | We did n't all fully follow the metaphor , but the gist of it was unmistakable . |
| 4 | ‘ If we did n't all turn into disgusting lumps of decaying meat , men would be even more arrogant than they are . |
| 5 | Before the start — we did n't all look as fresh at the finish ! |
| 6 | But we did n't all get inside , Father . |
| 7 | We did n't half get up to some mischief , I 'll tell you . |
| 8 | We did n't half cheer him on . |
| 9 | Ca n't say we did n't half expect it , I suppose , by this time . |
| 10 | We do n't all need to be in working class inner city areas . |
| 11 | We do n't all work in the same way to spread the good News . |
| 12 | We do n't all have Watkins ' advantages : a lifetime 's familiarity and sympathy with his native countryside ; the photographer 's eye for detail , for the unusual and for the properly framed view ; and the advantage of access to the countryside as part of his daily work . |
| 13 | Hamish should remember that we do n't all live on the doorstep . |
| 14 | We do n't all treat deadlines with — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We do n't all wait around any more , like wallflowers at a dance , hoping that the man we fancy will deign to notice us . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't all have demonic powers . |
| 17 | We do n't all stay in bed all day , you know . ’ |
| 18 | I think I think this war in particular is an example of how complex situations are and it 's an opportunity in a way for us to show to our children that there are different views involved here and different positions will be reflected , perhaps , amongst the children and the community in which they live , that we do n't all in this country hold perhaps the same view , and even those that have one particular stance have very mixed feelings about it . |
| 19 | She could be bluffing we do n't that do we for certain erm yes we have got one who will accept the salary yes we could take one from outside the field that 's why I wanted this deadline so if we do n't get the increase in salary by this date we can then start planning and take on board the second tier level |
| 20 | It alters the pages , we do n't that |
| 21 | I said , well , I said , If we do n't those bombers in and , and Spain we 're gon na get them over here . |
| 22 | They come up with excuses when they 're accused of misogyny — like ‘ We do n't dis women , just some women — just bitches and ho 's ’ . |
| 23 | we , you know , we do n't this is the best one . |
| 24 | Christ knows , as if we had n't enough problems with the bloody Germans without Peter Young stirring them up. , The Sergeant marched off muttering loudly to himself , something about ‘ fucking bagpipes ' ’ and ‘ ‘ crazy colonels ' ’ . |
| 25 | as if we had n't enough troubles , now I read that the International Monetary Fund is worried that the world is running short of money ! |
| 26 | We started gambling with scraps of papers because we had n't any real money and matchsticks were forbidden . |
| 27 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 28 | ‘ Until you can bring yourself to do the rounds of the whore-houses , and find out who she was , we have n't much option , have we ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We have n't much left — and very little water . ’ |
| 30 | We have n't much time . ’ |