Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] we [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interesting as Luxemburg 's ideas are , they need not detain us here seeing that what I am concerned with is Bukharin 's response to them and the results of that response . |
| 2 | Tragically , I have to wish that that was the case because today 's figures do not give us much ground for comfort , but , as long as the Minister continues his present style of trying to hype up and to trivialise every issue , that is what will happen to our agriculture . |
| 3 | You 'd just give us dirty looks probably would n't go |
| 4 | However , the feminist critique should not encourage us only to look at girls . |
| 5 | In Miliutin 's words , " serfdom does not permit us either to reduce the term of service or to increase the number of unlimited leaves so as to diminish the present number of troops " . |
| 6 | ‘ But when the dedicated thousands leave , the club may finally realise we still mean business . ’ |
| 7 | And although my department and British Rail had produced a joint report , this did not mean we automatically accepted BR 's views . |
| 8 | Being a lesbian requires some shifting away from sexual conformity , but this does not mean we necessarily question other ‘ sexual norms ’ . |
| 9 | Erm I ca n't honestly see us ever getting that . |
| 10 | Well I was working in the quarry , and er it 's last March turned round and said he wanted a new implemented with a new miracle saw that he had bought and he did n't really give us much warning about what he was gon na do but all he said was that er he was gon na scrap our old bonus contract and implement a new one no matter what , and from various figures that were bandied about we all realized we were gon na back quite a lot worse off because of it . |
| 11 | I do n't think we even knew what the O stood for ; perhaps he lied about it . |
| 12 | Something I do n't think we particularly do . |
| 13 | I do n't think we normally do that . |
| 14 | Like you , I could n't interpret the paintings in any particular way , and I do n't think we really need to . |
| 15 | I do n't think we really need that do we now ? |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think we ever thought , though , that the bank would not support us . |
| 17 | I do n't think we ever thought the bank would not support us . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think we ever had one . |
| 19 | Oh I was in repudiation of my contract well I du n no what what it means to repude some things , you know I jumped to get a dictionary and found out , but I really do n't know what my contract was because I do n't think we ever had any . |
| 20 | A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that . |
| 21 | Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth . |
| 22 | They were together for four years , but Bailey recalls : ‘ I do n't think we ever saw each other . |
| 23 | Well right-oh we er I do n't think we ever do expect that much . |
| 24 | Yes definitely I mean I do n't think we ever dreamt in our wildest dreams I think really it was maybe chance thing f fate or whatever you know . |
| 25 | I do n't think we actually said who was going to inform the member authorities . |
| 26 | Lack of money is holding them back — new sounds have to come from fresh effects pedals rather than a sampling machine — but the ambitions are burning : ‘ I do n't think we actually achieve the crossover , ’ admits Sam , with a who-gives-a-flying- f— -shrug , ‘ but that 's certainly what we want to do . ’ |
| 27 | So are y I do n't think we actually established , are , are you erm are you unemployed ? |
| 28 | I do n't think we actually used any of them in the end but it has got that cinematic imagery to it . ’ |
| 29 | I 've got to do that twice a day which I did n't know we actually had to do when I started it . |
| 30 | ca n't see us ever having a compact disc player . |