Example sentences of "[vb base] we [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect we 'll now see trade unionists and others appointed where appropriate . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been doing one acquisition a month and I expect we will still do one acquisition a month , ’ Sadler said . |
| 3 | ‘ They realise we ca n't afford to pay contract money , ’ Lowe said . |
| 4 | Once we have achieved the result we want we can then decide whether laser printed output is suitable or use the services of a bureau to get the same file photoset on the higher resolution equipment . |
| 5 | ‘ If you can hit your killer 's face before you croak we can probably get him , ’ SOCO said helpfully , as he examined a gory piece of Sellotape before slipping it into one of his brown paper bags and carefully labelling it . |
| 6 | Certainly say we would n't want |
| 7 | We never say we would n't bring him back . ’ |
| 8 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 9 | I think for me , one of the main questions is how we enter into joint activity with the British Labour Movement , or do we just turn our backs on it and say we ca n't do it , they are too racist , they are too imperialist . |
| 10 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 11 | Yeah , but the trouble with it there is that very often you get , you get half of them say we ca n't come Tuesday , but we can come Wednesday |
| 12 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 13 | Well a cooker you definitely , a fridge say we could perhaps borrow that one of mum 's until we could afford one . |
| 14 | ‘ But I ca n't agree with the prophets of doom who say we will never qualify for the World Cup finals again . |
| 15 | If we say we can not afford it , the reply is that we pay out more and more millions of pounds in unemployment benefit . |
| 16 | Are you going to , when you do your care packages say we can only award so much , we 'll have to reduce it , arbitrarily ? |
| 17 | The football authorities say we can now concentrate on what happens on the field rather than the terrace , because hooliganism is being forced out of the game . |
| 18 | Cos it 's very wet , and if you jump in this puddle and get your trousers wet we 'll never get out if we 've got to stop to change you . |
| 19 | ‘ Shame we could n't get anyone else for the delivery , these watches are murder . ’ |
| 20 | If you already receive Housing Benefit we will automatically work out your Poll Tax Benefit from the information you gave us on the ‘ Review ’ form we recently sent . |
| 21 | Senior hospital caterer Jimmy Kikozi said : ‘ I have nothing to say about their food , but I imagine we will now see people wearing happy hats around the place . |
| 22 | But as you can not see me at present with any advantage to yourself , I leave for Tunbridge , my dear , and hope we shall better understand one another on my return . |
| 23 | John has found much to do which will not require to be again done in N.S.W. I still hope we may not exceed two years in our absence and I think John is as anxious as myself on the subject . |
| 24 | which of course is rightly the , the domain of the District Council so I hope we wo n't get too involved in that . |
| 25 | O K , I just hope we wo n't run out of space here . |
| 26 | Looking serious , he told his audience : ‘ I hope we can comfortably challenge each other ’ . |
| 27 | Home advantage will be a big factor next week , and I hope we can now finish off the job . |
| 28 | I think the general concept that we is that we do not want to erm envisage we hope we will not envisage proposals which generate a scale of development erm which is quite clearly not related erm to the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope we will still have a very competitive car next year . |
| 30 | Cllr Eddie McEvilly , Labour , said : ‘ It is really quite disgraceful for chief officers to show our hand like this and reveal we would not have a strong case . ’ |