Example sentences of "we [modal v] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why we may go walks together , and not go to his house where there is all his family I simply can not imagine . |
| 2 | Christ , in some mysterious way , takes upon himself our folly and failure and makes it his own , so that we may go free . |
| 3 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , we may go back to the situation in 1072 , and begin with some words of Lanfranc which provide the main evidence for the documents which existed at this date . |
| 5 | We may go so far as to suggest that each reader has a " stylistic competence " , analogous to and additional to the " linguistic competence " shared ( according to Chomsky ) by all native speakers of a language . |
| 6 | - We may go further , and affirm that a negative is used , generally speaking , when there is need to deny some expectation ( in the mind of author , reader , character ) that the positive is true . |
| 7 | Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right . |
| 8 | We ask and for the younger nations help to grow to maturity Help us that wherever we may go we may amen |
| 9 | We may go further and specify confidence limits such as 95 per cent . |
| 10 | To what extent if if you accept the County Council 's proposed housing provision for Selby , and I appreciate that 's hypothetical but I er I think it would help me to get this element isolated from our discussion , otherwise we may go round in ever decreasing circles . |
| 11 | ‘ But if they do , we should go with them . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe we should go to one of the hotels for tea or icecream ? ’ he asked fretfully , as if somehow sensing her withdrawal . |
| 13 | ‘ I think we should go home . |
| 14 | What , however , caused almost universal consternation was my suggestion that we should go a stage further and see whether it was possible to introduce ‘ portable ’ pensions — pensions which you could take from one job to another . |
| 15 | ‘ We should go , ’ said Philip . |
| 16 | ‘ perhaps we should go home . |
| 17 | I remember how her country beginnings showed themselves then : she made no fuss about seeming to be lost , nor did she work herself up into a state as the aunts would have done , just stood there patiently and quietly while I untangled her and found the way ; and did not even grumble , although after that I let her decide where we should go , which was usually across a field near the sewage plant , and along a road near the gasworks . |
| 18 | I do n't see why we should go to war for our fucking post code . ’ |
| 19 | We believe strongly that we should go on working together in full partnership in a Union that has served every part of the United Kingdom well . |
| 20 | ‘ I think perhaps we should go through to Mr Andrew 's office . ’ |
| 21 | Hospital thinks we should go in . |
| 22 | ‘ I think we should go at once and see Patrick . ’ |
| 23 | I think we should go back down now and show these to Joan . |
| 24 | ‘ Ooh , I do n't think we should go in there , dear . |
| 25 | But that 's all the more reason why we should go off this time with a car well filled , eh ? |
| 26 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 27 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps , with typical English reserve , we should go along with Alice and Stephen Lawhead 's Pilgrim 's Guide to the New Age ( Lion Publishing ) . |
| 29 | After all , would you like to have the fat cats who make Exocets and Harrierjets tell us when and where we should go to war ? |
| 30 | I think we should go back by the paths . |