Example sentences of "[verb] we [vb base] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
2 | I says , oh sorry you 've come we do n't drink whisky . |
3 | I mean , you can even get a situation Chairman , where you 'll get some of the big multiples will tell a , will agree specifications with a food manufacturer , but they 're not going to be able to check on the ingredients , so even though the , the , the Sainsburys and the Marks and Spencers of this world say we do n't want any er , gen genetically modified ingredients going into anything that we 're going to buy , there 's no way that they can guarantee that before we 've even bought any . |
4 | Here are all my colleagues rushing upstairs with great enthusiasm , diving into the committee room , anxious to get on to curb the ever growing number of rules and regulations and whilst they 're upstairs merrily getting on with it , here we are downstairs passing more things which we say we do n't want to do . |
5 | Ken commented earlier that er er prior to the Financial Services Act coming into force which I think was some time in nineteen eighty-eight , the er D T I was responsible and there come back to the D T I if these sort of things had applied and er compensation effectively by the D T I for mal-administration or whatever so that er say we do n't pretend to be pension experts , so any retrospection that I would suggest might well be appropriate as at the date of the Financial Services Act becoming into force . |
6 | So if anyone 's interested in going on that , get in touch with me or Dave , we 'll erm , say we do n't need to many but I think we can take a few and we will take our petition with us on that one , the animal petition . |
7 | They say we need more rain because most of the downpour will run down the rivers to the sea . |
8 | She says we do n't want to destroy children 's innocence on the other hand we want to alert them to the dangers . |
9 | The WHO report says we do n't need sugar and sets an upper limit of 10 per cent of total calorie intake from added sugar . |
10 | She says we do n't need another power station . |
11 | He says we do n't see this as a victory . |
12 | WHO SAYS WE DO N'T LIKE MONDAYS ? … |
13 | of course we do n't know what , as your Lordship says we do n't know as a matter of fact what the , the height of the |
14 | no he 'd , he 's got to do as he 's told and he knows that and that 's it and at the moment she says we do n't know so we do n't know , but we know that sooner or later it 's |
15 | I 'm forever on at my father to get more phones put in , but he says we do n't get called often enough to warrant extensions . |
16 | ‘ Well , the Thing says we do n't have to get on it , we just have to put the Thing on it . ’ |
17 | ‘ This is ‘ gesture legislation ’ — a statute that says we do not approve — but without any real means of enforcement , ’ he says . |
18 | You imagine we do n't know who they are ? |
19 | Listen we do n't swear it 's Betty in n it ? |
20 | Er I was very conscious that we must be careful , say do nothing and certainly to accept no resolution which might even appear we do n't have a on planning application and this is . |
21 | ‘ I hope we do not interrupt you ? ’ he said with mock formality . |
22 | No you had two like that , er I hope we do n't break down going home Phillip so I 'll feel a twat walking around with your work socks |
23 | Though I hope we do n't go on having family Christmases . |
24 | Kinnear said : ‘ I just hope we do n't have to suffer the brunt of it . ’ |
25 | I mean it has been referred to that we might have to do them again , I sincerely hope we do n't have to go through this process again . |
26 | they said oh hope we do n't have a |
27 | But we were brought up to read good literature , to be great readers and I hope we do n't lose our traditions . ’ |
28 | ‘ We hope we do n't need one , ’ said organiser Cindy Keen . |
29 | ‘ I hope we do n't find those poor men , Joe , ’ I whispered . |
30 | I only hope we do nt have to share a league with Hillsboro . |