Example sentences of "[adv] we [modal v] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then suddenly we 'd have to laugh , you know ? |
| 2 | We all know that , however much we may try to deter it , death is the only certainty . |
| 3 | In spite of her own feminism and socialism her films are not propagandist or didactic , as she was very well aware that : ‘ We were not engaged to indulge our own politics or socialism , however much we would have found satisfaction in doing so ’ . |
| 4 | It shows how much we could do to address the threat of climate change if we were really serious about saving energy . " |
| 5 | ‘ Naturally we shall expect to hold these . |
| 6 | Who knows how long we shall have to wait ? |
| 7 | The question for us , whatever the situation about Labour Party links , is how long we can continue to argue for our members to support the Labour Party locally and nationally , to pay the political levy to a Party that treats this union and treats union members with utter and absolute contempt . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps we ought to get married now there 's a baby , ’ said Wendy . |
| 9 | I ought to perhaps we ought to start closing them in again then that 'll keep |
| 10 | Unless they 're very very careful the supporters of one member , one vote so called will create a narrow and exclusive Party , limited to those lucky people who can stump up an eighteen pounds membership fee without thinking too hard , and in the Britain of nineteen ninety three there are n't quite as many of those as perhaps we would like to see . |
| 11 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 12 | On that basis , then , we have a reason to be glad that Clive Lloyd adapted his strategy of all-out pace , for had he not done so perhaps we would have seen less of one of the most watchable of all bowlers . |
| 13 | Perhaps we shall return to slave cultures like the Greeks of Athena . |
| 14 | So perhaps we might need to do might want to until I return , which I should n't think will take too long . |
| 15 | Perhaps we might try to think of an ideal university tutorial in an Arts subject as though it were a little world in isolation from everything else . |
| 16 | Well that 's right , it 's , it 's more than we 've had before and if it 's a success , perhaps we 'll manage to have a twenty-four hour line . |
| 17 | Let's forget about the name for a moment , and perhaps we 'll get to hear what happened last Tuesday . " |
| 18 | Perhaps we 'll have to do that in the new year |
| 19 | Perhaps we could arrange to go as a foursome ; we 'd have no trouble getting a table if I make the arrangements . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ In fact , I 've half a mind to join you two girls tomorrow in Sherwood Forest , and perhaps we could arrange to lose Anna somewhere in the bosky glades . ’ |
| 21 | Wh what I 'd like to suggest , without going through it all again , is that perhaps we could agree to ask the Town Clerk to write to Planning Department and voice our concern at the way this matter is being handled . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps we could have won in the end but I am sure we can finish the job this week . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps we should stop castigating individual managers , coaches and players and take a long , hard look at the structure of our sporting institutions . |
| 24 | wonder as well , whether some of us should be putting as much energy into training teachers , and perhaps we should stop doing that and just concentrate on our own staff . |
| 25 | Very very erm suggestive metaphor although I do n't know exactly what it 's extraordinary one , erm erm erm , the , perhaps we should begin to step back a second here , to think about how we normally individuate things . |
| 26 | Enclosure made things more difficult , or perhaps we should say necessitated new and exciting skills , but at least there were no close ranks of trees to make the fences impossible . |
| 27 | Perhaps we should try showing a little tolerance towards each other . |
| 28 | Perhaps we should consider publishing details of the many failures in Conservative councils throughout the country , and not least in the borough in which this House is situated which , while exporting its homeless to other authorities , appears to be guilty of the illegal sale of houses that were not its to sell in the first place . |
| 29 | Perhaps we should consider giving widespread publicity to the Audit Commission 's account of the Government 's failings . |
| 30 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |