Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 2 | With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging . |
| 3 | Mark , if you think that Strach was looking that far ahead then we should snap him up immediately , as if he is that much of a thinker then he could make a great manager . |
| 4 | We used to stick ours up and if we see any fresh blue ones we should pull them down . |
| 5 | Whether we should send him off with a shove in his rear and a pair of boxed ears does not matter . |
| 6 | Well the procedure is anything , that 's if there 's an accident which does require treatment from the first-aiders , I mean then I think we should send it off do n't you ? |
| 7 | I think it is as much that the word is a philosophy , but I do n't think we should throw it out of the window altogether , like I say , it 's a foundation , it 's our our foundation stone . |
| 8 | Well I 'm sorry I 'm still I still think we should throw it out because , simply because I do n't think you 're putting forward , I do n't think that the motion er proposes the right solution to the problem . |
| 9 | Could you please let me know where you would like the cheque sent , and to whom we should make it out ? |
| 10 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 11 | Unfortunately it would appear , or perhaps fortunately , depending on , on one 's views , erm , the policy has always been quite clear , that we should treat them in exactly the same way as we treat the independent sector , and that there would be an arm 's length independent inspection , that has now been made explicitly clear that that is the requirement , and therefore you would have to withdraw that and say that if there is a requirement to find a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of savings , we will have to go and identify another area rather than that . |
| 12 | I mean , we should get them back . |
| 13 | we should get you down there . |
| 14 | Driving instructors will tell us that if a cat or dog strays into our path , and we are unable to stop or otherwise avoid it in an orderly fashion , then we should run it down . |
| 15 | I do n't think we should put them through . |
| 16 | Maybe we should take them up on it . ’ |
| 17 | I think we should tie her in , but Madeleine wo n't hear of it . |
| 18 | Equally , if we conclude that other presuppositions are not true , we can be sure that in the long run they will not prove satisfactory either , and we should root them out . |
| 19 | ‘ When the British have finished interviewing him , I believe we should have him back over here , ’ said Kelly . |
| 20 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the RECHAR money has been paid by Britain into the European Community and that we should have it back . |
| 21 | A lot of old folk are getting caught and we must stamp it out |
| 22 | ‘ We must drive out Medoc , we must send him back to the Dark Ireland , and we must seal up the terrible Gateway that he opened before the creatures and the monsters of that Realm flood through it . |
| 23 | ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’ |
| 24 | We must burn them out ! " and Dong and Hoc joined a party of two-dozen coolies in a headlong dash to the tractor sheds to fetch drums of oil . |
| 25 | ‘ And since the only one who can cage a Mortal soul and carry it to the Prison of Hostages is the Lad of the Skins , we must call him up . ’ |
| 26 | But we must let them through . |
| 27 | ‘ We must let him in , ’ said Toby , although none of them wanted to see him . |
| 28 | ‘ Today it is 40pc-plus and we must cut it down if we are to improve survival rates of colon , rectal , breast and other cancers as well as cardio-vascular disease . ’ |
| 29 | We must cut it out , before it spreads . ’ |
| 30 | Establishing and sustaining relationships — ‘ We must have you over for dinner before we leave . ’ |