Example sentences of "we be do " in BNC.

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1 I mean , what have we been doing ? ’
2 What have we been doing this past week at Inveraray , eh ?
3 What had we been doing all these years if not promoting fitness , well-being , stamina , strength , and mobility ?
4 Erm , what we 'd like to know for for all of our sake 's really , is who we are , and where we 're from , what we 're doing here , how long have we been doing whatever it is that we 're doing here , erm where we come from , a little bit abo about our history , and any details , usual points , that you just Er , my name 's David .
5 What have we been doing all this time ?
6 For most of us , however , a comfortable dwelling house is an absolute necessity if we are to do our work happily and efficiently .
7 If we are to do better in 1996 , we must avoid the trap of appearing to set one group against the other .
8 And , put simply , followers of Christ exist for Christ , to please him , as he ‘ looks on ’ ; for whatever we do in word or deed , we are to do for the honour of Jesus Christ the Lord .
9 If we are to do this we must be clear what such skills include , and an advantage in having the librarian working in consultation with the planning team is that such questions can be asked and their proper inclusion sensibly planned .
10 I know that Steven 's parents understand how glad we are to do whatever we can for our daughter , and their son .
11 If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests , then major land reform is essential .
12 I apologise for the length of this letter but I do believe that it is essential that you have a clear understanding of what it is we are to do .
13 ‘ You have been a help to us and now we are done with you , ’ said the first man , smiling up at him .
14 The o one thing that w we have to have in mind though is that the this particular criminal that we are does n't want to get caught .
15 ‘ Once they are frightened of their own servants , then we will know we are doing well , ’ said Cameron .
16 Similarly , to look at our activity in the self-reflective consciousness provided by ‘ theory ’ can be salutary ; it is a good thing to know what we are doing , and , if possible , why .
17 Trevor Phillips , the council 's director of environmental services , said : ‘ We have to demonstrate to the public that we are doing something about this problem .
18 So we 've had to do a lot of work ourselves , including researching carefully that we are doing something worthwhile . ’
19 They still do not concede that we are doing nothing to force any GP to spend less time with his patients .
20 It was , he said , a ‘ good time for us as Conservatives to think afresh about the direction of British politics ; about where we have come from , what we are doing , and where the future is taking our nation and our party . ’
21 ‘ There are informal networks through which we let one another know what we are doing and we meet and talk .
22 In our defence programmes generally we are doing too much to guard against the least likely risk , viz. the risk of a major war ; and we are spending too much on forces of types which are no longer of primary importance .
23 He wrote : ‘ It is like a vast supermarket in which absentmindedly , yet intent on what we are doing , we push our shopping trolleys up one aisle and down the other , while death and alienation have the run of the place . ’
24 ‘ Of course we are trying to recruit new people to Flockplan , but we are doing so in the knowledge that having a detailed analysis of flock performance and an independent adviser standing at his shoulder , can help a sheep producer improve efficiency and profit enough to recoup the cost many times over . ’
25 Mrs Daniel , whose school has 1,000 boys and girls , added : ‘ If parents see a boy and a girl even holding hands in the park , they are in next day , to ask what we are doing about it . ’
26 SIR Ron Brierley yesterday reassured shareholders in GPG , the investment vehicle where he is chairman , that ‘ we are doing everything in our power ’ to solve the impasse which has frozen London trading in the shares for 15 months .
27 ‘ The business case for what we are doing is obvious , ’ says Hume , calculating that it costs an average of between £10,000 and £15,000 to recruit and train a replacement for every female member of staff who leaves .
28 Wealth can make life easier , but the things that really make us happy , like friendship , love and the feeling that we are doing something worthwhile , are things that money can not buy .
29 ‘ It shows the hypocrisy of our society that we work hard for the born handicapped … yet before their birth we are doing everything we can to seek them out and kill them .
30 We are doing a review of the evidence ; you know , fresh minds … ’
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