Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that perhaps we had better hear the Home Secretary explain it . |
| 2 | Apparently , that we only live once , that nothing lasts for ever , that the hours and days and years are rolling inexorably round , that soon we will all be in Hades with yesterday 's worthies , and nobody 's family connections or talent or good deserts will get them out : so we had better make the most of life while we have it . |
| 3 | So we 'd better make a note of that . |
| 4 | ‘ Neither of us believed in God so we did n't want a religious ceremony , ’ says Marie , a 60-year-old radiographer from Ipswich . |
| 5 | When the United Trade Union Committee ( CUTS ) was formed , they established the post of Secretary of Women 's Affairs and so we did n't continue the work of AMPES . |
| 6 | So we did n't buy a rabbit cutter . |
| 7 | We 're going over to Michael three months of the year and there was air fare to find and there was holiday money , cos we used to go away with Michael and er so we did n't have a car of our own . |
| 8 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 9 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
| 10 | But now she 's gone on holiday for a whole month and so we do n't have a drier . |
| 11 | On Thursday , no , on Thursday we get the last period off , then we come home , home early on Thursday , Monday 's Bank holiday so we do n't have the school any school and erm , one day in May you 're back with |
| 12 | Even so we do not have the full picture . |
| 13 | unc It is apparent from the first that the vector elements are changing sign ; so we do not reduce a homologous element to unity ( though in general we might periodically remove a power of 10 ) . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , such people have not had their daily rhythms studied in detail and so we do not know the time-cues that are important to them . |
| 15 | The body clock has been studied very little in older volunteers and so we do not know the answer to this . |
| 16 | The rest of us , without the cred and the bad dress sense , have to work for a living and generally we do n't regard the politics of envy as espoused by your paper as anything other than the ethics of the under-achiever and failure . |
| 17 | Normally we do n't keep a record of the results but now we have some hard facts . |
| 18 | Still we do n't hav nu constitution |
| 19 | I suppose once we did n't need the coal so badly they closed the mine down , then the railway . |
| 20 | Mercifully we do n't see the presumably nasty outcome . |
| 21 | Beware the patrician whose natural argument is that ‘ we are educated and able to make an informed decision , but not so most people , hence we had better protect the masses from their own folly ’ . |
| 22 | Add to that the new guidelines that suggest that all er plans for major developments must go through the hands of an A L O and really we do n't have an answer for it , and if we are going to be getting 9 new civilian C P O's they 're gon na have their work cut out learning their basic craft before they even develop their A L O skills . |
| 23 | ‘ Now we 'd better have a formal interview with you , which I will allege took place in your flat . ’ |
| 24 | Now we did n't have a voice , remember we were never even informed before or until two years later after the event that it had happened . |
| 25 | Because we forgot to do , we forgot to do the spelling test last Friday , so we had to do it on Monday so we did n't get any spelling this week , so right now we did n't have a spelling test , this is brilliant , guess what we do now ? |
| 26 | Right now we do not know the extent of that problem . |
| 27 | I think there will be many differences in our education system now , we do n't know what er system we take from West Germany as you know , we have to overtake nearly everything and we have to lose many things which were quite good in our old system and now we do n't have the chance to er to bring it into the connection between East and West Germany , so that is one problem . |
| 28 | Now we do n't know the long term effect of that , but the experience with the protocol violators suggests that they wo n't come to any great harm , but obviously the number is small . |
| 29 | now we do n't learn a lot about , we do n't know much about this army officer except what we 've just read , and even though the , we , we know of quite a few people in the bible , he says in Israel there 's no one with greater faith than this army officer , so he 's quite some man is n't he ? |
| 30 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |