Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] we [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If that is the way they want it we will just talk to City . ’ |
| 2 | To begin with , how can we possibly know what we would really need if stricken by serious illness or accident perhaps many years later ? |
| 3 | As a church do we put ourselves with Jesus on the side of people in need or do we allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear or the temptations of wealth and forget what we would rather not know ? |
| 4 | inflammatory pain killers we can actually give you We can actually make the fluid on the lungs worse . |
| 5 | Could our bodies glow red when we only have a day left so we could all sit down and wait comfortably and then when we snuff it we could just disappear . |
| 6 | If we are listening to a story and somebody says So I ate it we may well know the meaning of it from somewhere earlier in the story . |
| 7 | It may be that work since the mid-seventies , valuable as much of it is , has in fact done no more than to clarify how much more we need to investigate and to highlight what we should always have known — that writing and the teaching of writing are immensely complex activities . |
| 8 | Anyway , we 'll do what we can without going too far . |
| 9 | But i if while we 've got them we will still be there we will still be called to put them out and one of these days we 'll be dealing with bonfires when somebody 's house is on fire and we need to be there instead . |
| 10 | We are already two-thirds of the way through our stay in Peking , and by the time this letter reaches you we may well be getting ready to leave for Sian . |
| 11 | The same will apply in deciding what we may legitimately say that animals , in the absence of language , see , hear , or smell . |
| 12 | From the end of William 's reign , when contemporaries talked of a struggle between Court and Country , they were describing what we would more readily recognise as a clash between Whigs and Tories . |
| 13 | Well just just to reiterate , I mean we we would still like to have that letter from you confirming that . |
| 14 | Tell me we can still win more than we lose . ’ |
| 15 | Even if the deadline were to fall tomorrow without our succeeding in buying them we can still go on until July the 27th . |
| 16 | Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’ |
| 17 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 18 | No-one should underestimate the enormous gain in freedom for millions who had been trapped in the oppression of communist dictatorships , but the speed with which the liberation of eastern Europe occurred was so stunning that it raised what we can now see to have been unrealistic expectations of the transition to peace , democracy , and prosperity . |
| 19 | This activity is an affirmation of existence despite insistent illustrations all around us which portray what we will never be ! |
| 20 | County cricket in its early days appealed to both middle and working classes , many of whom enjoyed what we would now call ‘ flexi-time ’ . |
| 21 | Or they have to do what we will never do and that is take the quality out of it . |
| 22 | To state the relevant causal circumstance , would we not have to do what we can hardly hope to do , which is to enumerate parts of much of the whole state of the universe at or during a time ? |
| 23 | The USSR and the People 's Republic of China had recognised what we may now call North Vietnam since 1950 . |
| 24 | And now they tell us we might even have to go to some barn that has n't even got proper floorboards for us to live under as Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) intended . |
| 25 | If we did n't have them we would probably have dictatorship which would be even worse ! |
| 26 | I believe in wearing what you feel comfortable , you work better and er like the block , well you 'd , right after we 'd cut anything we 'd just |
| 27 | A crash in the direction of the Town Hall warned us we would soon be needed . |
| 28 | Right , we wo n't bother counting them we 'll just |
| 29 | As as I said we 're we 're not very formal but er you know that also has its especially if people that er maybe erm , how can I put it , are not used t taking everything back to a meeting and you know they maybe make a decision and go ahead with it and then it gets shouted at a bit but I think we we can all take being shouted at a bit as well . |
| 30 | Presume we we should also write to Peter and ask him if he 's got any spare safety money to er |