Example sentences of "do we [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You next time you come to do it you 'll be doing you 'll remember nearly as much as we 're doing today but perhaps some odd little bits you 'll think , ooh now how did we do that I ca n't quite work out . |
| 2 | The other thing is with employer legislation update , did we decide to do some training on that or did we decide that we would produce a handout ? |
| 3 | Only next day did we discover that he had no part whatever in the plot — to Mr Wrong of Colchester , our apologies ! |
| 4 | Only after the event was over did we discover that he had in fact contributed to a booklet produced just before the 1987 general election by the Society of Conservative Lawyers . |
| 5 | did we go when we went up |
| 6 | Little did we know that it would result in one of the most amazing periods of any of our lives — including David 's I 'm sure . |
| 7 | Little did we know that around Suva it 's second nature . ’ |
| 8 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 9 | Only later , when we saw the photographs , did we appreciate that Donnelly must have been magicked out of the car at the precise millisecond when the car exploded on impact . |
| 10 | How many did we have when we bought it ? |
| 11 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 12 | So , what forms did we say that Elizabeth was collecting ? |
| 13 | ( Only later did we learn that Peking had considered it fashionable to support small countries , struggling against ‘ hegemony ’ . |
| 14 | Do we , do we think that generally speaking , our judges are in touch with public opinion , generally . |
| 15 | If this had n't happened … how many times do we think and feel and say those immortal words , a strange mantra that underscores the mystery of who and what and where we are in this mysterious world . |
| 16 | Where , he asked , do we discover that there is some kind of necessary connection between two events , so that we can confidently affirm that A ‘ causes ’ B ? |
| 17 | To return to the arrow of time , there remains the question : Why do we observe that the thermodynamic and cosmological arrows point in the same direction ? |
| 18 | WHY DO WE age and die , instead of staying young forever ? |
| 19 | But of what other foreign-language learning do we demand that a native speaker of the language shall not be able to discover any deviations ? ( 1979 : 16–17 ) |
| 20 | Nor do we feel that this is necessary . |
| 21 | These are sensuous pleasures at their most enjoyable when we ritualise them , but how do we feel when we desire them ? |
| 22 | What do we feel when we describe to each other our LP collections of sixteen years ago , when we linger on the morose pleasures of vodka and lime , inept discos , French kissing , Watney 's Party-Seven beer , cheesecloth shirts , Budgie jackets , very long floral skirts , knee-length boots with zips in the side , army greatcoats , Mateus Rosé , and tank tops … |
| 23 | Do we want or can we afford to alienate our British friends ? |
| 24 | How do we control that process ? |
| 25 | What for example , do we do if we , as relatives or patients , meet the rare case when a doctor is not a good doctor ? |
| 26 | ‘ What do we do if this road is blocked ? ’ |
| 27 | What do we do if there are n't |
| 28 | ‘ What do we do when we reach Freiburg ? ’ she enquired . |
| 29 | After all , what do we do when we are asked whether a particular string is ‘ acceptable ’ ? |
| 30 | ‘ So what do we do when we find it ? ’ |