Example sentences of "[verb] we [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pride causes us to want to be seen as the best , but we will often use the strategy of holding others back to make sure we stay there . |
| 2 | ‘ Uncle Jake says we 've to be down for breakfast in a quarter of an hour . ’ |
| 3 | Mind you behave , Victorine called after them : do n't give us cause to be ashamed of you . |
| 4 | Meanwhile I had to get Harry well propped so that he would n't fall forward and drown after all , and to do that I reckoned we needed to be in the corner . |
| 5 | He looks wise and fatherly and says , ‘ I do n't think we want to be bothered with that , do you ? ’ |
| 6 | For myself , I do not think we need to be quite so pessimistic . |
| 7 | I do n't think we need to be too sorry at the reason we 're not getting it written is we 're far too busy lobbying MPs and making protests in the centre of town and things . |
| 8 | While I can see that the woman you wrote about may well have deserved what she got — your report says the little girl was badly bruised — I do think we have to be wary of going to extremes . |
| 9 | We realised we had to be able to rely on good raw ingredients — that 's why we started farming . ’ |
| 10 | On the face of it , in asserting that Ruritania does not exist we seem to be asserting something about Ruritania . |
| 11 | Right , what made we want to be , I wanted to be a policeman when I was very young but never had the courage to do it . |
| 12 | It is important to realise , however , that what we have discussed in this chapter is relevant to the next chapter , since if we want to know how language is understood we have to be aware of the large number of different levels of processing which are involved . |
| 13 | I suppose we have to be grateful that Mr Akhtar grudgingly refrains from asking us to ban the works of Voltaire , which seems a major concession from him . |
| 14 | Though I suppose we need to be reminded of mortality . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 16 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , I would like to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 17 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we ought to try to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 18 | If we are serious about making the risks of HIV transmission common knowledge , and I believe we have to be , then we need to ensure that every section of society has full access to the information that is available . |
| 19 | Then we have to change again and that 's what you 're saying we have to be a chameleon |
| 20 | I 'm saying we have to be self critical |
| 21 | If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary . |
| 22 | Sergei and Masha came to my room and I opened a bottle of mineral water : we all felt we needed to be abstemious . |
| 23 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 24 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 25 | ‘ The changing economic climate means we have to be flexible . |
| 26 | ‘ They said what did we want to be . ’ |
| 27 | Did we want to be able to identify a ‘ schizophrenic ’ at ten paces ? |
| 28 | British investigative writer Anthony Summers says : ‘ I think we have to be extremely cautious . |
| 29 | I think we have to be freed up to have the choice to bring children into a society where that we can go to work , that we can do , you know fulfilling |
| 30 | As a Board though there is nothing to stop us stating the option in our Newsletter , but I think we have to be very careful of the tone and wording that we use . |