Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [vb infin] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 2 | Their preference for cleanliness extends to a marked dislike of the chemicals that we may choose to chuck in . |
| 3 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 4 | We may have to go around . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Well , sure , we may have to go back to some places , if the light is wrong or something . |
| 6 | We may have to cut down on holidays and buy cheaper Christmas presents but these refugees have been lucky to escape with their lives . |
| 7 | We may have to follow up with other arrangements in the future . |
| 8 | We may have to bring in assistance from outside to deal with specific problems , and Mr Whittaker 's network of contacts could be used for this purpose . |
| 9 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 10 | When searching , we may know where to look or we may have to scan around to find out where to direct our search more intensely . |
| 11 | In a year 's time we may have to work out fresh deals for them but , whatever happens , they wo n't be leaving . |
| 12 | His conversion to Islam , his rejection of that faith and the subsequent , troubled period , when the disease had made him all but unrecognizable to any but a few close friends , are things we may wish to pass over today , but — ’ |
| 13 | We should prefer to go along with the European Communitywide scheme so that British industry is not put at a disadvantage . |
| 14 | But I think we should try to find out the reason for your attitude . |
| 15 | Fertility conditions play a part then , and as hard pruning provokes the greater growth response , we should judge to ease back a little on poor , dry soils compared with more fertile conditions . |
| 16 | Very very erm suggestive metaphor although I do n't know exactly what it 's extraordinary one , erm erm erm , the , perhaps we should begin to step back a second here , to think about how we normally individuate things . |
| 17 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 18 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 19 | Well , in that case I think it 's fine as long as it 's our equipment , but I think the problems always arise from it being lent out , and that 's where I you know , I do n't think we should have to sort out other people 's problems . |
| 20 | We must continue to keep down inflation and watch our monetary policy . |
| 21 | We must start to fight back now and the G M B should be at the for forefront . |
| 22 | We must try to find out . |
| 23 | In addition to this external divergence , however , communities like Belfast also exhibit massive internal linguistic divergence , and we must attempt to find out what are the internal social functions of this divergence . |
| 24 | We must help to clear up the confusion , dismantle — where appropriate — the weapons and assist in the disposal of the fissile material . |
| 25 | What I think we 'll do to start off with is to just put you on one inhaler and see how well you respond and if you only need it ev every now and again we do n't need to do anything else . |
| 26 | We 'll time to find out what 's coming up on the six thirty edition of the show . |
| 27 | Obviously then we need to pick up the appraisal system , and I think what I 'll have to do with that , is as the targets kep co start coming in , erm we 'll have to set up some sort of system , preferably I suspect computerized . |
| 28 | While chatting with Allan in the Admin Block corridor about a snag which had emerged , one of the senior managers said ‘ We 'll have to set up an Improvement Team to solve it ’ . |
| 29 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 30 | So we 'll have to carry on |