Example sentences of "we [verb] we [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regret we can not accept special requests on late offer holidays . |
| 2 | We have discussed her infatuation , which we agreed we would best handle by ignoring it . ’ |
| 3 | When it was being drawn up ‘ we agreed we could n't have a cash limit and we never said there would be a cash limit ’ . |
| 4 | We can feel anger , even rage , at our position but can not express our feelings because we fear we will not be accepted ; we will be further rejected . |
| 5 | How do we know we ca n't do something unless we try ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But almost as soon as our church team was formed , with the desire of being a marvellous example of love in action , we found we could not get on together , let alone with the world ! |
| 8 | ‘ We say we ca n't keep an eye on them all the time , but the girls are under strict control . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Oh , we say we wo n't , but we will . |
| 12 | If we say we can not afford it , the reply is that we pay out more and more millions of pounds in unemployment benefit . |
| 13 | Being intelligent , we hope we wo n't be cruel to animals , but you ca n't say that we are , animals are just as important as humans . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the contract that we negotiated we could not alter the content of the service provided by Devon social services but we could influence the nature and speed of delivery and of communication . |
| 16 | Then it is likely that when we recover we will not slip back again into that same pit . ’ |
| 17 | However , by carefully working our way up in the quality of cars we drive we can usually afford to wait until we can pay cash in the price range that suits us . |
| 18 | But we know we ca n't get into Spain because of the 1992 Olympics . " |
| 19 | Very often we conform because we know we dare not risk the consequences of non-conformity . |
| 20 | Yorath said yesterday : ‘ We know we wo n't be going to Italy . |
| 21 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 22 | When we need to forgive someone else we know we can not just forget it right away , but we can certainly say it is not on file against them any more . |
| 23 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |
| 24 | When we read Eliot 's The Wasteland , we know we can never hope to speak it aloud satisfactorily . |
| 25 | He 'll p , all he , all the money we get we 'll just put into the building society and pay the bills from the building society . |
| 26 | Unless we talk we wo n't reach conclusions that are acceptable to the majority . |
| 27 | Though it is very disconcerting when we find we ca n't drop off or that we wake early , we must remember that we can not do ourselves any physical harm by having difficulty sleeping . |
| 28 | If we find we ca n't get an increase in salary |
| 29 | Here we have to work around not only a collection of possessions which have become part of our lives , but also carpets or curtains or wall coverings we feel we ca n't afford to replace . |
| 30 | Guilt is not a true emotion ; it is a cover-up for other feelings which we feel we should n't have . |