Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] we [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two lads , went up to them and says get off that bike or we 'll pull you off ! |
| 2 | The poem is about the extinction of a season , of a day , of a fire and , overall , of a life which is apparent in the last couplet where we can see more clearly the relationship between the poet and his . |
| 3 | Crawford recalled of Lennon , ‘ He 'd come in and sit cross-legged on the bed with his guitar or we 'd take his Rolls to the beach . ’ |
| 4 | So we need a better way to practise our scales where we can relate to a key area from any one of the seven notes in the scale . |
| 5 | that we should not have been asked to comment on … the way the curriculum would be affected by these materials and how the school itself would be looking at its way of using them , other than perhaps information skills where we could help them with commercial publications to give them some ideas . |
| 6 | You recall that we could not have the needles always selected in the same direction or we would end up with biased fabric ? |
| 7 | He said ‘ Give us the money or we 'll kill her . ’ |
| 8 | YOUNG mum Julie Jones today spoke of her terror when muggers held a jagged knife to her baby 's cheek and threatened : ‘ Your money or we 'll kill your daughter . ’ |
| 9 | Or sometimes it 's a kind of ransom — send money or we 'll play noughts and crosses on your Leonardo cartoon . |
| 10 | Let me get in the queue look or we 'll miss our turn . |
| 11 | No you do n't , no you share it out first and then you see if you need to do the legs or we can have the legs , the legs on , on butties or |
| 12 | We can continue and try and finish the business before we have tea or we can decided to have tea . |
| 13 | Tt we were expressing , John and I , some erm concern that the the same few people seemed to be offering the soloing or we 'll do something bits . |
| 14 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 15 | ‘ Now , sir , ’ Cranston continued quietly as the other traders slunk back , ‘ I can ask the wardsman to convene a jury of your peers or we can settle on a fine ? ’ |
| 16 | But it is not only to the institutionalised abuse of animals that we must turn if we are progressively to disengage ourselves . |
| 17 | I think probably Chairman , it 's the best deal that we could get in the circumstances . |
| 18 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 19 | As suggested by one formidable opponent of the views in question ( also the author of the objection having to do with understanding Chinese ) we do not so understand consciousness that we can believe that it must be possessed by a set of water pipes , paper clips , and old beer cans , provided that they instantiate a certain programme . |
| 20 | So , giving reasons for our thoughts and actions does not perhaps have the solidity and universality that we might believe . |
| 21 | Is not that the best investment that we can make in the long-term future for that troubled area ? |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that most sensible people in Britain recognise that expenditure on our nuclear deterrent is about the best and safest investment that we can make , especially in view of the alarming situation in Russia and the break-up of the former Soviet Union ? |
| 23 | There is something in the British character which predisposes us to push to the limit , and beyond , the resources of self-deception to create the illusion that we can enjoy incompatible advantages simultaneously and secure a prize without paying the price for it . |
| 24 | Well it 's not in any dictionary that we can find |
| 25 | ‘ NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says . |
| 26 | We had to make a hollow in the mud , and we lay there like swallows : we used to long for the dark so we could stand up and straighten our legs . |
| 27 | I wanted to wire the hedgehog up to some kind of heartbeat monitor so we could run out to resuscitate it if the machine stopped beeping regularly and pronounced the continuous monotone bleep of death that we all know from hospital drama . |
| 28 | If , as I have argued in the previous section , moral or ethical theories do not provide formulae that replace the need for intuitions , but , on the contrary , are used in the service of new ones , it is these intuitions that we must focus on . |
| 29 | I 'm promised by our very reliable agent that we 'll receive the excessively handsome sum of fifty guineas , in the form of a draft from Paris , for the two letters from Molière to his lady love . ’ |
| 30 | His father Allan told the High Court : ‘ Whatever differences we have had as a family we are all of a mind that we would like what is best for Tony . |