Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] we [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Looks like we wo n't be trying to buy a centre-half for a while . |
| 2 | But the lawyer said that earlier one of them told ten-year-old Christopher : ‘ It looks like we 'll not be seeing our children at Christmas but you 're going to have your daddy after all . ’ |
| 3 | Because to me Danny Blanchflower , we lost England 's number one , now we 've lost Ireland 's number one , and it looks like we could even lose John , before long , of a similar type of er illness . |
| 4 | Having described what the Chart qua graph looks like we must now consider its properties as a process . |
| 5 | As the train stood on the platform we did not know if we would ever board it . |
| 6 | We did n't know if we would ever see each other again . |
| 7 | and yeah we 'd like to keep ours till September , I do n't know if we 'll ever get , we will get a free new one ever ? |
| 8 | And this selectivity is of course justified by my immediate aim , which is phonological rather than sociolinguistic — to discover whether we can reasonably speak of a meat/mate merger in Belfast English . |
| 9 | hence she questions whether we can any longer construe a notion of ‘ outer space ’ , the space beyond the frame within which images or ideas are traditionally secured . |
| 10 | Perhaps the time has come when we should humbly admit our limitations and seek solutions in co-operation with the Master Plan . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd been evicted when we could n't pay the rent because the potatoes failed . |
| 12 | You 've ticked the wrong things but it does n't matter cos we can probably use those anyway . |
| 13 | My mother says if we ca n't live inside the Fort at least we should live in its suburbs . ’ |
| 14 | In Book I , Chapter 3 , Section 3 of his A System of Logic ( written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation ) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality , a distinction which , he feels , may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution , for example , by reference to the quality , as when we call a sensation ‘ the sensation of white ’ . |
| 15 | The film crew and myself were left scratching our heads , accepting that we had a long wait before we could even contemplate some kind of interview . |
| 16 | Two questions must be answered before we can logically determine how we are going to handle any of our assets . |
| 17 | They came when we could n't possibly have expected them . ’ |
| 18 | We 'll have to look into it to see if we ca n't manage it . |
| 19 | The rest of us put our heads together to see if we could n't all manage to get to it at Staines in Middlesex . |
| 20 | We 're going to see if we can actually do all of that work for two thousand pounds rather than the three thousand pounds which we we 're |
| 21 | Perry reluctantly recedes until we can no longer hear either of them , though we watch Henry gesticulate , wiping sweat from his mouth and brow , pausing only to sniffle . |
| 22 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 23 | And if we can afford to send him to Bishop Challener or wherever then I mean if we ca n't , thing is at Bishop Challener we wanted to ge- reserve a place now and just pay fifty pounds . |
| 24 | If , I mean if we can only , if we can only invite the , the people that are he I mean the , they allow us release for this type of meeting mind you . |
| 25 | It 's just that two people asked if we could just print the form relating to what is in the master job file and it on the same colour paper or card as the erm , job files . |
| 26 | But we 'll see if we ca n't lend you one before too long . ’ |
| 27 | Come on now , chaps , once again , and let's see if we ca n't break thirty seconds . ’ |
| 28 | We 'll see if we ca n't catch sight of Mullach and Lionan as they head back north . |
| 29 | He said too : ‘ I shall see if we may not go back to Nice in the autumn , or Austria or Switzerland . |
| 30 | Let's see if we can all do better . |