Example sentences of "we [verb] [conj] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we , well at least we , we give that some thought , we do n't just accept it because she said it |
| 2 | We do not know just how much cohesion is necessary for a society to exist , but we know that some cohesion is necessary . |
| 3 | Vincent-Jones continues : ‘ We decided that some sort of celebration would not be out of order on the occasion of this remarkable escape . |
| 4 | The police catch theyselves and rush us shouting and some start to shoot , straight into we . |
| 5 | No doubt some will stay on to summer in Shetland and encourage us to hope that some day it too may be found nesting . |
| 6 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |