Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] a [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Better that Aretha Franklin had not been born than that we should endure a drop more of this acid rain of spittle ! |
2 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
3 | ‘ We 'll have a bit more sea , kick up some spray . ’ |
4 | we 'll have to , we 'll look we 'll have a story this afternoon , if we do n't get out this morning it could be pouring down |
5 | destroyed all mine and put it all in the , I mean lipsticks ten quid a time or whatever , seven quid a time , so I went through and Mary had a she got this moisture , oh I thought what does this mean , she said it 's for removing lines , I thought right we 'll have a sample this |
6 | And I will an' all ; we 'll have a competition some day when you start readin' the grown-up stuff . ’ |
7 | Oh we 'll have a pound each then . |
8 | ‘ I hope we 'll see a bit more of you , Miss Mitchell , ’ said Lucy Haynes , it seemed to Meredith a trifle wistfully . |
9 | Then we 'll get out five minutes early and we 'll see a bit more of Eastenders . |
10 | Rovers entertain Sheffield United today and a confident Dalglish said : ‘ With a performance like last Sunday at Liverpool , we 'll win a lot more than we lose . ’ |
11 | And we have branches , but we could have a lot more because the amount of branches we have , although we have a lot of branches of Scottish Old Age Pensions we are not old age pensioners are not united , they 're not united , the only way they can be united , if it 's a national organization , join your national organization and fight the government . |
12 | She says the way the world 's going we could use a bit less individualism and a bit more collective responsibility . ’ |
13 | Erm so she said , she 'd rather just have fifteen or sixteen of us and just do an hour cos we 'd learn a lot more which is very true . |
14 | As a matter of fact , I was talking to him briefly this afternoon and we agreed we 'd have a chat some time . |
15 | We used to have a week that 's all . |
16 | This year , I am being told that the test was not whether we could deliver our unprecedented number of detailed commitments , as I had thought , but whether we would do a lot more than we said we would do just a year ago . |
17 | However , I do not expect the full effect to be felt until next year , when I am sure we can expect a megaseller each month . |
18 | Gentlemen , I I do want to make a point because I know we 're not ready for elected Mayors or cabinet governments but I do think we c we can do a lot more to er improve our own internal workings here . |
19 | ‘ Perhaps we can have a talk some time ? ’ |