Example sentences of "[verb] we [vb mod] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mm I expect we could do another one could n't we Dad ?
2 I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’
3 How the fuck does he know we can see red and green ?
4 That 's what they 're doing now , they 're just waiting till April and say we 'll have ten thousand quid .
5 Say we could do ten each or something like that .
6 Er five , say we can have five here , you can have twenty five , over here somewhere ,
7 Thirdly , they say we must put this in all our newspapers .
8 As Christmas approached we would become affectionate about the brew and go and raise the lid and listen to it working quietly away in its comer .
9 ‘ But you promised we 'd see red grouse , ’ wailed an insatiable lad .
10 We found we could detect 12.5 fg M tuberculosis DNA with the IS 6110 primers , but only 36 fg with the 65 kilodalton based primers .
11 Then the set unc is non-empty and so [ since we are assuming W holds we can conclude that ] T has a least element t , say .
12 It seems likely that whatever happens we will miss one year whilst these discussions take place .
13 The Springbok skipper leads an unchanged team for the historic Test against England on Saturday , warning : ‘ Some people believed we would lose all four matches here but they are already three times wrong .
14 And I saw Mrs Chamberlin 's hens and they were splendid and Aunt Emily says we may keep some and I shall make sure it is me who looks after them , not Murphy . ’
15 She says we 'll get some old bikes so we can bike to the baths instead of walking .
16 He says we must find some way of coming closer with the poor .
17 ‘ Mother Francis says we should have enquiring minds , that everyone should ask . ’
18 ‘ Well , yeah , ’ said a nome , ‘ but , well , Nisodemus says we can stop this thing just by believing we can .
19 So from your income , that we must have , says we can do all those things , and have our standard of living .
20 Dean Patterson says the use of solar energy is important to all people around the world … and he says we will say electric cars on the road within five years but even with the sun shining … they 're are breakdowns … punctures and problems … a driver says they 've had a stone fly up and brake the chain but they 'll get going again
21 The committee is critical of our subsequent supervision , once having decided we should admit those companies .
22 ‘ So I imagine we can eliminate that possibility .
23 When we are writing we must unlearn this disembodiedness if our work is to achieve the depth and richness we desire : we must learn to speak with our whole body and not just through our mind 's eye .
24 But Moore assumes we can ascribe inherent value to smaller units of reality and indeed this may be a necessary presupposition for the kind of calculations on the basis of which he thinks we should decide what is most worth doing .
25 When a deviation from expected behaviour occurs we can detect definite phases of the control process .
26 When this occurs we can say that " hand A is perpendicular to hand B' , or that " hand B is perpendicular to hand A " .
27 When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm .
28 Yet , like the rest , this is a persuasive performance , and I only hope we shall have more Arnold from American players .
29 ‘ Now schools have their own budgets I hope we shall see growing diversity , ’ he said .
30 what , what I hope we 'll do next week is to , is to take that idea up and to see maybe why this policy came through erm and we 'll look at the , like the arithmetic of that as to , as to how much money there was , how much land there was in fact .
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