Example sentences of "we [modal v] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , in the end , unless we challenge our assumptions , we may end up with little more than a large collection of inwardlooking occupational ethnographies between which the connections still remained to be demonstrated . |
| 2 | Unless some of those cripples get well we may end up in midtable anonymity by May . |
| 3 | In passing from one parish to another , in simply crossing a nameless brook or road , we may step back into fields that were created , not by the commissioners of Georgian times , but by the Tudor squire or perhaps even by his monastic predecessors in the fifteenth century . |
| 4 | ‘ … it will be a great thing not to have to depend on the fickle wind for making a passage , and still more to know that we may pounce down upon those rascally fast-sailing dhows whenever we can sight them in a calm , and be sure of overtaking them … ’ |
| 5 | His studies of more than 10,000 executives in the past three decades persuade him that , unless our line of work calls fundamentally on our buzzgiving skills , we are unlikely to shine at it — even though we may muddle through on quasi-automatic dexterity alone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Provocation creates an unstable idea so that we may move on from it to a new idea . |
| 9 | The kindest thing one can say of this is that , one day , we may come round to liking it . |
| 10 | Very good er we may come back to that in a moment . |
| 11 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 12 | We must continue to make it clear to potential aggressors , however , that we should strike back with all the means that we judge appropriate , conventional or nuclear . |
| 13 | Yesterday , the shadow Chancellor said on the early morning news that Britain should fall into line with its partners — in other words , that we should give in to them without bothering to do anything to secure the best deal for this country . |
| 14 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 15 | I think we should check in with him . |
| 16 | ‘ America has a lot of assets , ’ he claimed in his last speech to congress , ‘ we should cash in on them . ’ |
| 17 | I am hoping to return through Malta via Bali and we should arrive back at Ayr on Tuesday . |
| 18 | I reckon we should head up to actually . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps we should pass on to the home-made cakes , ’ said Mervyn . |
| 20 | On the surface , the Conservative victory of 1979 seemed to blunt the case for change and in a 1981 Commons debate on the British constitution the minister of state at the Home Office boldly put the case for no change , arguing that " this is a time when we should stand up for our great tradition of parliamentary democracy … |
| 21 | We 've made some progress towards establishing the criteria which we should set out in our policy , and the mechanisms needed to control that policy . |
| 22 | ‘ I think perhaps we should go through to Mr Andrew 's office . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think we should go through to the dining-room now . |
| 24 | ‘ Well then , if we want to say goodbye to the old country , we should go up on deck , ’ Ernest suggested . |
| 25 | Someone pointed out that perhaps we should go on to Camden Town or we 'd end up back in the diversion . |
| 26 | we should go out with , with everybody , us and the boys |
| 27 | There should be no preconceptions whatever , no areas of intellectual abstinence , and we should go out of our way to build common cause with other parties around the world in searching out the way forward . |
| 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 | We are democrats and accept that until we have convinced people by the force of our argument , we should go along with the view of the majority of the organisations of which we are a member . |
| 30 | I think we should go in for 10,000 of these ones … " |