Example sentences of "[verb] we [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suggest we just let them suffer , ’ Ben said cheerfully . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , to let Blackbeard know we only charged him fifty per cent for returning it . ’ |
| 3 | A lot of chemical reactions are actually reversible , but the tend to be mainly going very much in one direction , so we just say we just write it as though it only went in one direction . |
| 4 | Instead I concluded he was about as frightened of death as I am so why , in the good Lord 's name , did he get up and bore us stiff telling us different ? |
| 5 | Thanks also for opting for Portsmouth , I hope we never see him playing for the opposition in a ‘ real ’ match as it might spoil memories … bit like Shez and the Frog … |
| 6 | yeah we ate we right enjoyed it |
| 7 | ‘ They have got rid of the Christian God , and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Christian morality : that is english consistency , let us not blame it on little blue-stockings à la Eliot . |
| 8 | Let us not leave it to others to fight for our goals . ’ |
| 9 | Therefore , if we are to exalt the work of Georgia O'Keeffe , let us not exalt it because it seems to be a rare psychic perception of the world peculiar to a woman , but because it is good painting . ’ |
| 10 | Let us not take it for granted . |
| 11 | Let us now consider it in action with some real examples . |
| 12 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 13 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 14 | She left a letter for me , and she did include the Purdeys in her Wall , and told us where to boil I looked , yesterday , and found the trunk empty . |
| 15 | Well , they told us not to wet it . |
| 16 | They told us not to wet it . |
| 17 | You told us not to tell you . |
| 18 | Well , hippies — they told us never to trust them , did n't they ? |
| 19 | Son told us how to do it once , so he got the book out and he said , oh , then he gave up in the end ! |
| 20 | A young man from the publishers told us how moved we were . |
| 21 | The fishermen showed us how to hold them safely and we invariably went home with a few , to watch , shocked , as Mother plunged them , alive , into boiling water . |
| 22 | His light shows us where to take it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I remember a major who begged us not to kill him , my lord . |
| 24 | So we either , in terms of number of institutions I would think we probably count it as an F E institution , because this the A level is , is much smaller than the other F E. But in terms of F E students and sixth form students , what I would want to do is count the A level students as sixth form students . |
| 25 | You know , I mean we just got them cheap erm lampshades from now on er cos it 's not worth it cos th the expensive ones are just getting damaged all the time . |
| 26 | Ah , but it 's y you still see it , I mean we still see it about once or twice every week . |
| 27 | I know we never used it . |
| 28 | But he was grinning and called us over to join him . |
| 29 | Since receiving this , he has contacted us again saying he would like a change . |
| 30 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |