Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [adv] the [det] " in BNC.

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1	Usually we should get much the same results by applying the same load slowly .
2	We 'll meet here , on the same day , in two years ' time , at seven o'clock , and we 'll have exactly the same things to eat , and tell each other quite frankly in what ways we 've changed .
3	We could do exactly the same with sport , like we could do it with art and theatre and music and , and a hell of a lot of other things , but it 's unfortunately a part of our national political tradition that a large number of us feel some reluctance about doing this .
4	We used to get exactly the same rebate , the only thing is we have to wait three months for it .
5	When this legislation is pushed through , we shall face exactly the same as happened with the poll tax .
6	If we were in opposition we would do exactly the same .
7	We can do exactly the same : look around for good ambush spots as you run , places which give you cover so that you can jump out and completely surprise your attacker as he rushes past .
8	I mean it it 's only external speakers that we should er I mean they come to the University for a day , I can set that up I mean we can do exactly the same at university .
9	We can see exactly the same connections being drawn in the case of Frances , Jenny and Ian .
10	Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) .
11	To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey .

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