Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm also very anxious that we receive a full percentage whack of those profits and as you can see I , over the years , I 've been very assiduous in ensuring that we do move towards that position . |
| 2 | But the talks themselves may mean that some leading blacks and some powerful whites in Africa know that we do depend upon each other . |
| 3 | It is , however , right and proper that we do report to this sub- committee on the activities of the staff commission , and that I do in the paper before you . |
| 4 | If we do think in this unilinear way , we will be inclined to dismiss or devalue evidence that is important for our understanding of language history , just as some of our predecessors have done . |
| 5 | Basically what if we do increase to that price . |
| 6 | The last-night party , a hallowed Easter Course tradition , was studded with starts of the highest calibre ; we were richly entertained throughout the evening by acts that were all professional to the core , even if we did see through some of the flimsy disguises . |
| 7 | Erm if we actually look erm and I do n't know if we did introduce to all members Bryony who is my assistant and who works very largely on the programme with me and on the educational and events side , and is acting minute secretary while Judith is on maternity leave . |
| 8 | We were at great pains to explain that we were novices and aware that diving in Barbados was unlike diving in the UK and were told that ‘ courses taken on holiday mean nothing at all ’ and that we should be prepared to snorkel around a pool for six months should he deem it necessary , and that even if we did dive to any standard we would be taken on a dive ( presumably in a pool ) , and ‘ ripped down ’ until we eventually failed a test . |
| 9 | But we do go through those kind of phases . |
| 10 | But we did look at that as er as an option . |
| 11 | I , I , maybe before we start that , on the point of reductions , and I 'll ask both er , George and , and er , Jean and Mike to , to speak for the different political groups , as part of the P A G , erm , when we did go through this process , I , I mean it was very difficult for us as a P A G. |