Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small . |
| 2 | We may find things that are best kept locked away . " |
| 3 | ( 3 ) The third consideration supposedly favouring preference utilitarianism was that we may desire things other than experiences for ourselves . |
| 4 | The other thing that tends to happen in post-olympic years is people look at rule books and different types of competition and there is a sort of atmosphere of I think we ought to change things . |
| 5 | We ought to run things properly and see if we ca n't do things better in future . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure we should reverse things and do it the other way around as the Americans do but it certainly means we can hit our irons well and , believe me , this course is going to demand exceptional iron play . |
| 7 | Doubtless we should manage things better over here ? |
| 8 | ‘ It was kind of Anne to think of it and not condemn us , but — well , we 've managed so far being discreet about it , and I do n't think we should change things now . ’ |
| 9 | The authoritative parent tells us that we should do things and judges us ; the loving parent tells us not to worry and that they care . |
| 10 | He proposed that we should test things by the evidence of our senses . |
| 11 | ‘ How it has come about I can not think , but of course we must set things right . ’ |
| 12 | Just as a computer , we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases . |
| 13 | We must have things in common as a basis for a relationship . |
| 14 | Right , erm I think in actual fact , we 'll er , we 'll leave things , we 'll leave things there . |
| 15 | Right , erm I think in actual fact , we 'll er , we 'll leave things , we 'll leave things there . |
| 16 | Let's have some vodka and food , and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll do things together . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll do things your way . |
| 20 | However anybody interested get in touch and we 'll sort things out . |
| 21 | back to me about Catherine and we 'll sort things out . |
| 22 | And I want you to come and we 'll sort things out . |
| 23 | I do believe , however , we 'll learn things from it that we can quickly adapt and put into the hundred and seventy six M F I stores . |
| 24 | ‘ Let's get this weekend over and then we 'll discuss things in detail , ’ Vitor cut in impatiently . |
| 25 | I know they say a picture 's worth a thousand words ( and James would no doubt agree with you ) , but I think we 'll keep things as they are for the moment . |
| 26 | We 'll keep things right for you . |
| 27 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 28 | That an idea , yes , we , if we let them both know then , then erm , we might we might speed things up . |
| 29 | Of course we could leave things as they are and just go our own ways , but it would n't work . |
| 30 | ‘ Now maybe we could calm things down a bit . ’ |