Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 2 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 3 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , sure , we may have to go back to some places , if the light is wrong or something . |
| 5 | We may have to cut down on holidays and buy cheaper Christmas presents but these refugees have been lucky to escape with their lives . |
| 6 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
| 7 | We may have to follow up with other arrangements in the future . |
| 8 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 9 | We may have slipped back in some fields , but in others ( such as molecular biology or pharmaceutical research ) we remain world leaders . |
| 10 | We should prefer to go along with the European Communitywide scheme so that British industry is not put at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | Now that Jack Kuehler has persuaded Louis Gerstner to let him go in August — we should have pointed out in yesterday 's issue that he reached retirement age last year and only stayed on because he was pressed to stick around awhiles longer by John Akers , returnee and vice-chairman Paul Rizzo gets additional powers , at least temporarily : four parts of IBM that had reported to Kuehler — its semiconductor , software , AS/400 and personal systems operations — will report to Rizzo . |
| 12 | Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be . |
| 13 | So that 's great but we started off with three there and we should have started off with E. So through imme a this this is intensely repetitive so that you can you 're building it up , you 're sort of doing it with numbers and then you 're doing it more |
| 14 | ‘ We should have won out of the park , ’ commented McLean . |
| 15 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 16 | What I think we 'll do to start off with is to just put you on one inhaler and see how well you respond and if you only need it ev every now and again we do n't need to do anything else . |
| 17 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 18 | We 'll have to go back into the bushes , then take the tradesman 's path . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll have to go back at once . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Could n't we have a second chair ? ’ ventured John Gould , inciting the first major row : ‘ We 'll have to re-think the whole thing ’ says James ‘ we 'll have to go back to the very beginning and re-block it ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll have to go back to London , ’ Keith says . |
| 22 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 23 | Of course , we 'll have to watch out for les flics . " |
| 24 | It 's like the same issue we talked about the three year plan projects if necessary we 'll have to slow down on some of the projects , certainly to get through this budget year intact . |
| 25 | But I suppose we 'll have to hang on to them now until the owner gets back . ’ |
| 26 | We 'll have to hang on to that . |
| 27 | ‘ Knocking Leeds United is n't exactly new , and now that we 're champions I suppose we 'll have to put up with it all the more . ’ |
| 28 | If we do n't specify the objectives we want , we 'll have to put up with those we get . " |
| 29 | Right so we 'll have to come back to keyboard and you can change it , I think . |
| 30 | ‘ We wanted to play Dublin but all the venues were booked out months ago , so we 'll have to come back in the New Year and do somewhere like the SFX or the Stadium . |