Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They were opposed by Anthony Cary , Lord Falkland , a Tory , who argued that the throne should not be filled until Parliament had decided what powers to give the Crown , so that " we may secure ourselves from Arbitrary Government " , although in this he was supported by radical Whigs such as Wildman .
2 Let's face it , we live with our negative parts and generally we may beat ourselves in public .
3 I 've a feeling we may need them before this is over . ’
4 We may learn something from this recession . ’
5 So I think we ought to congratulate him on that .
6 We should mean something to each other , something more than animated objects , walking .
7 That is , it is unclear whether what is being maintained is that our conception of effects is of unnecessitated events or that we should change it to that .
8 do you think we should stand it on some gravel in the saucer there 's plenty of gravel
9 We should leave it until next year and make certain .
10 That 's why I 'm saying to everyone that we should build it with two lanes and no more and so restricting the chance of it ever being a motorway .
11 JAMES EDE , chief display assistant , East Filton : ‘ We should make something of all the hype around the release of the Jurassic Park film and have dinosaur shaped foods . ’
12 We should make it in three or four days , if we 're lucky , if we leave tomorrow , ’ Travis finished , recalling her to the here and now with a start .
13 We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that .
14 We should address ourselves to those faculties in a child 's mind , which are first awakened by nature , and consequently first admit of cultivation , that is to say , the memory and the imagination . ’
15 Even with nice Mr Major as Prime Minister I feel we should resist it with all our energy .
16 Right , now that 's what a decimal is a decimal is , that 's what a decimal is , and there are some people think we should write them like this , or you could n't , you could n't do this .
17 In commending it to God , we should couple it with all the workplaces in our land .
18 The social charter has an enormous role to play and we should concern ourselves with that , because it is relevant to us all , wherever we live and whatever part of the country we represent .
19 We were , on the whole , comparatively fortunate people but , like everyone else , we had our anxieties and sorrows ; and , friends as we were , it was natural that we should communicate them to one another although , like well mannered people , we wrote letters mainly intended to give pleasure .
20 ‘ I 'm in two minds whether we should have him at all .
21 We must consecrate it to each other and to the gods . ’
22 We must do something about this exhibition , ’ Jay said , with the very English concentration of one commenting on the vagaries of the weather .
23 We must do something about those birds , ’ said Paul .
24 So we must leave it to some other group of His Majesty 's loyal subjects , such as yourselves , to carry out the task .
25 We must represent it by some simplified analogue .
26 We must tell him about this one .
27 In The Cloud of Unknowing he did not present the whole complexity of the Greek mystic 's vision , but dwelt upon his central belief that God is ultimately and essentially incomprehensible to the human mind and that if we want to ‘ know ’ God in this life , we must divest ourselves of all our ideas about the reality that we call ‘ God ’ .
28 ‘ Of course , this villa has no right to be here , ’ Nigel told them , ‘ but since it is we must save it for future generations to enjoy . ’
29 ‘ So we must have something in common . ’
30 We must have something in common ! ’
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