Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 2 | have n't got it right actually , I mean basically we can go up the top shop and buy what we like ca n't we ? |
| 3 | Wondering how long we can hold out . |
| 4 | ‘ I think perhaps we might go down now , ’ said de Sousa . |
| 5 | Perhaps we 'll end up paying out in it . |
| 6 | Perhaps we 'll keel over in a moment . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps we 'll catch up . |
| 8 | And perhaps we could open up the pest house |
| 9 | It looks as if there 's a path over from your cottage , so perhaps we could walk round there and then come back to you for tea ? ’ |
| 10 | Well , perhaps we could move on . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps we could meet up later , over coffee . |
| 12 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 13 | Perhaps we could go back still further , to the event of her own birth , and even into an intra-uterine existence , for it is at this time that the ovaries and all the eggs are formed in the female . |
| 14 | Yes … well , perhaps we could go back to the study . |
| 15 | That 's that 's the sort of thing cos we 've we 've got erm erm perhaps we could put up some of the I mean the ones that you 've got out in behind your desk at the moment . |
| 16 | ‘ As you are , perhaps we could come in . ’ |
| 17 | Tt with the aid of the good general the er United Nations army and the South Koreans pushed the North Koreans back into North Korea and er MacArthur 's view was well while we 're winning why do n't we keep going , you know , perhaps we could take over China as well |
| 18 | Someone pointed out that perhaps we should go on to Camden Town or we 'd end up back in the diversion . |
| 19 | ‘ I think perhaps we should go through to Mr Andrew 's office . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps we should pass on to the home-made cakes , ’ said Mervyn . |
| 21 | Thorfinn said , ‘ Now that we all know one another , perhaps we should sit down ? ’ and pulled out a stool at one end of the table for Earl Siward , as a host might , before taking the other end himself . |
| 22 | Perhaps we should fence off all the roads , down to a depth of several feet and a height of many yards . |
| 23 | Maybe , yes , we have , we have approved school or er student group officer so we should perhaps let him you know , perhaps we should , perhaps we should come back to him or Michael could . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps we should cheer up too , paloma . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps we should get on , ’ says Robyn frostily . |
| 26 | When she hesitated , hardly knowing what to say , he tipped the scales by proposing briskly , ‘ Perhaps we should get down to business . |
| 27 | For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ . |
| 28 | Right , well we 'll get it all sorted for then and we 'll try and arrange a programme whereby we tie it up with Loretta or whoever that erm mom and I and Beth coming up to you and perhaps we can go out for lunch , yeah ? |
| 29 | The key area in terms of waiting , I 've referred to later in the report , perhaps we can move on to that . |
| 30 | If you could discover that , then perhaps we can find out who Raphael is . ’ |