Example sentences of "shall we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Sir Vivien had reached the fifteenth green at the time of his abduction and Bonzo arrived in the clubhouse at ten o'clock , we can assume that Sir Vivien himself must have begun his round at , shall we say , about half past eight . ’ |
| 2 | Cameron began to wonder if Mr Menzies was identifying himself with Job , and when he ended ringingly on ‘ Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil ? ’ , the suspicion was confirmed . |
| 3 | Cameron began to wonder if Mr Menzies was identifying himself with Job , and when he ended ringingly on ‘ Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil ? ’ , the suspicion was confirmed . |
| 4 | Shall we — ‘ But James had mentally worded his speech a dozen times and would not be forestalled . |
| 5 | What shall we do tonight ? |
| 6 | Shall we go out ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll press on , shall we ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Shall we try to reach the food again ? ’ |
| 9 | It looks sadly as though only too much of England — or shall we say the English populace — is what it seems . |
| 10 | Oh yes , and what shall we call him , Marie ? ’ |
| 11 | But I feel sure that only by going to St Bertrand de Comminges ( another name that crops up in the Cantos ) , and from there to Mont Ségur , shall we see the point of : ‘ at Mont Ségur the chief 's cell / you can enter it sideways only ’ ( 101:725:77 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Slowness is beauty ’ , which struck me as very odd in 1908 ( when I certainly did not believe it ) and has stayed with me ever since — shall we say as proof that you violated British habit ; and thought of it . |
| 13 | How then shall we try men who have examined us more than we have ourselves ? |
| 14 | What country shall we conquer , what fair land |
| 15 | Top managers enjoyed an average increase in earnings of 17.8 per cent last year , according to the latest , from Charterhouse ; like P-E Inbucon 's , its results suggest that Lord King of British Airways was , shall we say , a bit ahead of the pack . |
| 16 | In the opinion of Tim Lucas , a director of the wholesale company Simson : ‘ Billingsgate is , shall we say , a little tired . |
| 17 | But the roads on which he drives it also go through most of the art produced in the last half century — shall we say for the sake of convenience , since the death of Trotsky ; or in a more apt frame of reference , since Guernica ? |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll take it as said , then , shall we ? ’ said Charlie . |
| 19 | Let's have a bit of a sing-song then , shall we ? ’ |
| 20 | Shall we try it ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Shall we re-cap on what we know about Charlie Hatton ? ’ |
| 22 | I 've no more patients until after lunch , so shall we go into the house ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Let's check the other room now , shall we ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Shall we go in ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Shall we ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Shall we have coffee ? |
| 27 | ‘ Shall we saunter on ? ’ |
| 28 | Shall we go ? ’ |
| 29 | When bad weather threatened an American Airlines flight from Chicago to New York the pilot , it emerges , offered his passengers the choice : shall we turn back or go on ? |
| 30 | ‘ I always knew something , shall we say , peculiar was going to happen . |