Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] a " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ If we lose we shall have a mountain to climb .
2 As a matter of fact , I was talking to him briefly this afternoon and we agreed we 'd have a chat some time .
3 Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference .
4 Mr Marchant added : We hope they will adopt a responsible attitude to the problem .
5 We hope we will give a voice to the authors of the '90s . ’
6 HE has already won novice chases at Cheltenham and Bangor and we hope he will win a few more , although he could n't cope with Barton Bank at Worcester recently .
7 And Inspector Brian Ward , in charge of the project at Chatham , Kent , said : ‘ We hope it will have a calming influence on people , not being supervised by officers who arrested them . ’
8 Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’
9 So , we could have somebody start at twenty pound a month and we know we can make a profit and we can provide a good service to the clients , a good level of cover .
10 Well let's not say all nine planets for all we know they 'll discover a new one tomorrow .
11 As home we roll we can drink a bowl
12 Sir Donald Wilson , the authority 's chairman , said : ‘ We feel he will set a good example to the region . ’
13 No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er
14 We thought we might have a chance .
15 We could n't sport the name of Dark or Phillips or Brown or Davies or any other Worcester paddler who went out to give their all but we thought we would have a go .
16 ‘ We usually bring our own food and eat it in the park , ’ Tom said , ‘ but today we thought we 'd eat a proper meal in a cafe with you . ’
17 What with the Santa Cruz Operation 's new president Lars Turndal being the new kid on the block and a stranger to most of the people who 'll have to deal with him , we thought we 'd give a little of his background .
18 We thought we 'd have a nice family evening in front of the television . ’
19 ’ We wrote the single after moving into a little village and seeing all the people driving to their office jobs and we thought we 'd have a go at them ’
20 Rather than examine just one of Tony Revell 's acoustics , we thought we 'd take a look at two instead .
21 As we prepare for the future , we thought we 'd take a few minutes to look back — at the first ten years of Central News .
22 Because of their success , some of these worksheets on general library skills had now been subsumed within IS teaching , leaving science to concentrate upon science-specific activities : Where we thought we could make a contribution was specifically linking subject-specific library work sheets into our own science teaching .
23 ‘ And we thought we could make a birthday tea for him , ’ said Peter .
24 We thought it would make a nice Christmas present and show our borrowers that we are passing on the benefits of the recent rate reductions as soon as possible , ’ says Stratton .
25 Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses .
26 Using these criteria ( as well as that which stipulated that they should not be paid carers ) we felt we would achieve a more homogeneous sample than if we had included people less closely involved , and one which would be confined to those with a significant input into the care of the dementia sufferer .
27 However , with three of us we felt we could start a group !
28 We knew we would get a big loss this year partly because of the cost of the changes we have made .
29 But in the back of our heads we knew we could make a career together . ’
30 We knew he 'd have a quick one while he was there .
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