Example sentences of "we [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , but how were we to know about the crash ? |
| 2 | Are we to look within the Church for those kind of murderous emotions ? ’ |
| 3 | Are we to account for the behaviour of the state in terms of the behaviour of its constituent bureaucracies ( and other agencies ) , or vice versa ? |
| 4 | Are we to account for the behaviour of a bureaucracy in terms of the behaviour of the human individuals comprising it , or vice versa ? |
| 5 | First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ? |
| 6 | But what are we to make of the evidence which suggests that working class wives rarely knew what their husbands earned , or enjoyed sex , or of the probably greater incidence of violence between spouses ? |
| 7 | The question arises : What are we to make of the equality |
| 8 | And what are we to make of the claim that the twentieth century has seen no philosophical achievements on the scale of Locke and Descartes ? |
| 9 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 10 | The men did n't like us to sit on the platform . |
| 11 | It was just warm enough for us to sit at the table outside and drink cool wine in the fading sun . |
| 12 | He told us to sit by the fire . |
| 13 | Eadred invited us to sit round the table . |
| 14 | This was Madge , who made costumes for the rest of us to wear at the party nights . |
| 15 | He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water . |
| 16 | In the words of his 1906 paper , ‘ the seismograph enables us to see into the earth and to determine its nature … as if we could drive a tunnel through it . ’ |
| 17 | Cos she showed up , a lot of them show tendency at home or er say some of the ones she 's just asked us to see in the office anyway . |
| 18 | There was , however , no necessity for us to go down the hill for water , for if we continued a little further we should find a good spring on the road . |
| 19 | It 's been a godsend for us to go down the street shopping , if you 've got a load of shopping you just stop right outside the gate . |
| 20 | We went to bed — she was going to catch a plane and Dad said it was too late for us to go to the airport . |
| 21 | ‘ No-one wanted us to go to the spot where he died it 's right in the middle of what they call ‘ bandit ’ territory . |
| 22 | Do you want us to go to the store ? |
| 23 | It was rare for us to go into the city together . |
| 24 | Then he told us to go into the hospital where the nurse would show us what to do . |
| 25 | As for the connection between his father 's lauded status as an artist and the activities of the Fundació , Miquel Tàpies is also committed to establishing a distinct identity : ‘ It 's important for us to go beyond the name ’ . |
| 26 | Thank you , Father , for the fellowship that you want us to enjoy in the church . |
| 27 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 28 | O God our Father , help us to nail to the Cross of |
| 29 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 30 | And some allow us to indulge in the fantasy of living in an expensive house with lots of servants . |