Example sentences of "[subord] we [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were interested in everything they saw and were told , and obviously identified many areas where we can provide them with advice and help , ’ said Hunterston Station Chemist Peter Young who was one of their hosts . |
| 2 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 3 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 4 | Jonathan Fry , director of Yorkshire and Humberside Low Pay Unit : ‘ We welcome the new tax rate of 20p in the £ for the first £2,000 of taxable income although we would prefer it to be even lower . |
| 5 | Although we will clarify it in the course of this study , multimedia is hard to pin down to a rigid definition . |
| 6 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 7 | It is one thing to realize that our faith will always be weaker than we would like it to be , but it is quite another to insist that our faith must be weaker than it can afford to be . |
| 8 | In words , the EQ of a given species such as a rhino or a cat , is a measure of how much bigger ( or smaller ) the animal 's brain is than we should expect it to be , given the animal 's body size . |
| 9 | MacDowell 's got a load to deliver and he wants a hand so we 'll do it in the lunch hour ; new headquarters of the respected firm of MacDowell and Co : ye esteemed Eagle and Child public house to be found ( if it be not removed by ye demolition men ) at the corner of — you feel like coming then ? |
| 10 | That 's the Coke that nan bought you , but we bought you some more did n't we , so we 'll save them for tomorrow |
| 11 | Five right so we 'll put them in five groups of five lots of one pound on the table . |
| 12 | who had taken our side , rented some lands to FECCAS so we could work them in cooperatives . |
| 13 | A Dunkirk he waited for us so we could tail him through Lille and Mons into Belgium . |
| 14 | My wife asked me to dismantle an island breakfast bar , and retain the units so we could incorporate them into the existing kitchen later . |
| 15 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 16 | ‘ We really want to get our hands on the person who is responsible so we can bring him before the court and have him dealt with properly . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We really want to get our hands on the person who is responsible so we can bring him before the court and have him dealt with properly . ’ |
| 18 | Traditional methods seem to have failed , so we are interested in identifying good practice so we can spread it throughout Tayside , ’ he said . |
| 19 | They will remain there for up to ten weeks , before being brought into a warm greenhouse so we can force them into flower . |
| 20 | Like Arsenal , they are in form at the moment , so we must treat them with respect — but not too much . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah , well we will do once we 'll get them to the height we want we 'll start trimming them and they 'll bush out a bit more , that 's not bad they 're about four , four or five foot now are n't they ? |
| 22 | Do n't worry cos we 'll help you with it . |
| 23 | We shall need some more singers to do , are you ready to sing cos we might need you for something else up there , you 'll never know . |
| 24 | Yeah , right on the sole and cos we used to take them off the iron and put a bit of leather on and grease the uppers with neat's-foot oil and they were really lovely and warm in the winter . |
| 25 | I think cos we used to have them on a trolley , yeah mm , I wonder if that |
| 26 | Oh yes , she she knew what cos we could see it by her face . |
| 27 | Cos we could put it into lots of ten . |
| 28 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |
| 29 | If we can recognize it for what it is , then we are well on the road to dealing with it , and being able to put it behind us . |
| 30 | Well you see we 're a bit further from home now and if we can do it for five days , great , we have n't |