Example sentences of "[adj] we [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Add this : ‘ and this we shall do of our own free will and accord ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Unfortunately there 's nothing much we can do about it . ’ |
| 3 | There was nothing very much we could do about it . |
| 4 | The sad thing is that there 's probably little we can do about it now . |
| 5 | ‘ In a recent match , we were kicked off the park by the opposition but there 's very little we can do about it . |
| 6 | no where erm the multiple concern who looked after that business , where their national account department looked after that corporate we would look after it and where their key account department looked after it you would look after it and is a national account for for erm |
| 7 | Several local PPLs , who have to go to him , have complained about this exorbitantly high fee , but it seems that there is little we can do about it . |
| 8 | No matter how sorry we may feel for ourselves at times , there are always people worse off than us . |
| 9 | And if you do n't want to talk about that we 'll talk about something else . |
| 10 | And it may well be that that we 'll have to you know make sure everybody who 's running a training course , gets this particular |
| 11 | Certain individuals stand out as more perceptive , sensitive , far-seeing than the rest of us , and we recognize their value judgements as maturer than our own ; but they differ from experts in that we can learn from them only how to evaluate more maturely ourselves . |
| 12 | And , with luck , not long after that we will have in our very own editorial offices an electronic excuse for the mistakes that occasionally slide into these pages . |
| 13 | in specific terms I ca n't remember , I would have certainly of said that for the year er nineteen eighty eight we should build into our budget an amount , what that amount was I ca n't remember , but er that was , that was never given the go ahead |
| 14 | I 'm sure we 'll think of something ! |
| 15 | But I 'm sure we 'll think of something . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure we can think of something to do to pass the next hour or so , ’ he told her encouragingly . |
| 17 | He smiled in a way that tightened every single nerve in her body , and added suggestively , ‘ But I 'm sure we can think of something to do to pass the time . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 19 | ‘ First of all we will look at his numerical and mathematical ability which he has gained from reckoning areas from odd shaped bits of land and working out the number of trees they will take , and from his mother 's shopping expeditions , and we will reduce these to simple symbolic formulas and tables and make children learn a lot of them very quickly . |
| 20 | In Chapter 6 we shall look at what some of these common misapprehensions are , so that people can avoid creating unnecessary disappointment and frustration for themselves . |
| 21 | We have been asked by the County Council to do these works and as far as we are concerned we will comply with them . |
| 22 | No — ’ he looked into her eyes — ‘ when you are older we shall talk about it some more . ’ |
| 23 | I think it 's the nearest we 'll get to it , and it 's in the White Paper and it can be used in exactly the sense that I gather you would like it to be used , in the discussions we have on the results of the scrutiny , and that would be the starting point there . |
| 24 | The newest models at Yorvik are based on a computer reconstruction , which can take a skull and remodel the flesh on the human face ; building up from the skeleton is the nearest we can get to what individual Vikings actually looked like . |
| 25 | Perhaps you 're just playing your cards close to your chest and the first we 'll know about it is your engagement . |
| 26 | Erm it 's a very , it 's always a good idea to do a plan , cos yeah , spend five minutes or so planning and jot down a rough plan and it might be that we would , we wo , we would normally ignore , ignore the plan when marking but if , you have n't finished a question and er , it 's a bit thin we might look at your plan to get some idea of what you would actually written |
| 27 | We hedge about , sensing how close we can get to someone , and how much of ourselves we can risk revealing . |
| 28 | A Middlesbrough Council spokesman said : ‘ The time was the best we could arrange between ourselves , the club and the police . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That 's the last we 'll see of him , I hope , ’ she said . |
| 30 | We thought that was the last we 'd see of him … but Ian reappeared as we lost height … and he was clearly having a whale of a time … |