Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [subord] we [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I stoode myself alloone upon the Nuwe Yeare night , I prayed unto the frosty moone , with her pale light — what a dull time we should have if we tried to read our way through The Fall of Princes ? |
| 2 | I must admit as we walked through the churchyard , my wife and eldest granddaughter came along to help , I felt a little apprehensive , but there was not need , fortunately it fitted perfectly . |
| 3 | It was not over then however , as the soldier said that the rest of us should continue until we had also burst our balloons . |
| 4 | I mean you could make if we had twelve we get another two . |
| 5 | And I do n't think we 'd quarrel if we knew each other better . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 7 | Me an ’ Gerry 'd build up the kitchen fire and we 'd sit there and talk about what we 'd do if we won the Irish Sweepstake . |
| 8 | I mean I could understand when we had to climb up the belt which was damn dangerous , but now we 've altered all that . |
| 9 | It is a terrible warning to us about what could happen if we threw away our system of first past the post elections . |
| 10 | It is a terrible warning to us about what could happen if we threw away our system of first-past-the-post elections . ’ |
| 11 | The big welcome home we 'd get if we came over here . |
| 12 | ‘ I think there 's quite a lot we could say if we wanted to , ’ Harry replied . |
| 13 | But what a change for the better , I kept thinking , when compared to old committee meetings I used to attend when we haggled over lists of topics for inclusion in a syllabus . |
| 14 | It 's what we used to do if we took them off a line and got them cleaning up , it 's a token tow pound ten a day . |
| 15 | I expect you remember being taken and fetched each day — some four or five miles — sometimes by me and sometimes by Ruth Donnison — and how you used to fume when we picked up the Khin Zaw 's children who were always late . |
| 16 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 17 | We walked to the boy 's mother 's house where I would stay while we worked on the bride house . |
| 18 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 19 | I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else . |
| 20 | well for god 's sake , I mean I often wonder about people who make noise like this how they would feel if we did do the same , but I still say because we 've done our polystyrene insulation she ca n't hear us , it 's worked in the reverse ai n't it ? |
| 21 | And I wonder , if our world would improve if we did that . |
| 22 | I think what we would do supposing we did n't , supposing we just had heavy vehicles and light vehicles ? |
| 23 | why consumers pay er in the European Community , it 's because we paying them two or three times more for our food than we would do if we purchased it on the world market erm . |
| 24 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 25 | They said : ‘ The last thing we would do if we suspected drugs were being imported would be to tell the agent or importer because they may be in touch with someone at the point of origin . |
| 26 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
| 27 | I might might check them out to see if they would mind if we did something later on in the week . |
| 28 | On the afternoon of the second day , we put one of the Harris 's hawks on a creance , as we would have if we had been training it , and tried a spot of flying . |
| 29 | We , we would have if we did n't do it , because the applicant quite rightly said , what , he said was gon na do it without us |
| 30 | We would die if we tried to break free of I he spell — or if we did not , she would come and kill us . ’ |