Example sentences of "we [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 2 | We did we 've just completed we 've done three or four others . |
| 3 | They ca n't they wo n't we 've already |
| 4 | No but we do W we we 've always er celebrated Guy Fawkes for some strange reason , which seems |
| 5 | See we 've twice as divisional quality manager half an hour each week looking at . |
| 6 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 7 | You ca n't we 've only got two lights here |
| 8 | As you can see we 've so far spent just under 500 dollars ! ’ |
| 9 | No I do n't w we 've never attempted to define development in those terms . |
| 10 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 11 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
| 12 | ‘ Why must we tread carefully , Miss Honey ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ May we stay here for a little , until we find a place of our own ? ’ |
| 14 | And erm they walk into the , the hotel and they say can we stay here and he goes yeah , you can stay here on one condition . |
| 15 | I mean do we want to go and stay with the children at camp or shall we stay home ? |
| 16 | What would we think today of a Lewis Carroll whose passion was to photograph little girls naked ? |
| 17 | So what do we think now ? |
| 18 | ‘ Can we wait just a minute ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Sir … growing concern … today more than ever … the need for a sense of urgency … there are many of us who feel … protest in the strongest possible terms … how long must we wait before … ? which I for one believe … make our voices heard … ’ |
| 20 | How many man hours do we need altogether ? |
| 21 | Where do we need here ? |
| 22 | You can just shout out any ideas you have so why do we need well trained people ? |
| 23 | Take the long view : did we need so many Wolf Cubs ? |
| 24 | Er one last thing er , do we need so many as eight non-executive directors which also to be paid ? |
| 25 | I know some people listening to this in this area might say well do we need so many tourists . |
| 26 | Do we need highly qualified graduates for all these jobs ? |
| 27 | Er , what do we need now ? |
| 28 | Regardless of our commitment to joint decision-making most of us will find that there are many decisions where we feel we lack either sufficient interest or qualification and are perfectly happy to leave those decisions to our partner , eg many men would feel primarily responsible for choosing a car but would prefer their wives to pick out the furniture , decorations and plan the kitchen . |
| 29 | Mr Lamont has already given some clues about what will replace his former failed policy , but only when we hear Thursday 's statement will we know exactly what he intends to do . |
| 30 | Do we know exactly when Anne is leaving ? |