Example sentences of "we [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many more nights were we to do without sleep ? |
| 2 | What else have we to say about ego ? |
| 3 | ‘ Are we to rehearse in costume ? ’ she asked half apprehensively , thinking of the white chiffon and her own white flesh showing through like milk in white glass . |
| 4 | Er it needs skilled coordination and rhythm to help build the , keep the action going , developing stamina helps us to cope with work and leisure without undue tiredness . |
| 5 | it 's raining in time for us to go to school , come on |
| 6 | There are times when it is convenient for us to go to sleep ( the shops are not open , etc. ) and when it is expected that we will not be noisy . |
| 7 | One bloke burst in and told us to go to bed . |
| 8 | ‘ For instance , I 'll bet he ca n't tell me where you 'd like us to go for supper . ’ |
| 9 | At the end of the evening Surkov was surrounded by a group of admirers soliciting autographs , and he shouted at us to go on back to the hotel , he would join us in a while . |
| 10 | Indeed , I would expect it would have to continue for us to remain in business . |
| 11 | It would be difficult for us to object to Government amendments Nos. 26 and 27 since , as I recall , they arose from amendments that we tabled in Committee . |
| 12 | All : Lord , help us to work for justice . |
| 13 | Even if we meet with fellow humans from other parts of our globe where the spoken and written languages are different , the common , basic sense of meaning which we carry in our minds is enough for us to communicate through gesture and signs and to know that , should we care to , we can learn each other 's language . |
| 14 | Why it should be so in the case of the United Kingdom constitution is , again , a matter of history — and perhaps it again behoves us to bear in mind that the constitution is a process , rather than a settled state of things . |
| 15 | It helps us to know in advance your prize preference should you be our lucky winner . |
| 16 | It helps us to know in advance your prize preference should you be our lucky winner . |
| 17 | I do not see why the possibility that in some cases the acquisition of the wrappers did not directly benefit the Nestle Co. should require us to exclude from consideration the cases where it did . |
| 18 | This leads us to wallow in blandness along with Marlon Blando , holidays in Bllandudno , the constitutional fiasco of calling the Election date — Blandman 's Bluff . |
| 19 | This has enabled us to progress from cave dwellers to the point where we can ask about the ultimate theory of the universe . |
| 20 | I have had many pleasant discussions with him , but I must say to him and to the House in all firmness that to ask us to talk about justice as politicians is to go down a very dangerous road . |
| 21 | Even he , who loved his bed more than anything , joined us to listen to Colonel Stephens , and when news came of some successful advance against the Axis he would burst into wonderful , joyous laughter . |
| 22 | So , Creation 6 takes care of this for us by working on an elastic grid , allowing us to design in proportion and then making this a proportional pattern within the electronics to keep the design proportions correct . |
| 23 | Borland wants the rest of us to stick with Paradox and like it ( and we do ) , so most of the improvements in version 1.5 are for the pros . |
| 24 | In fact , the widespread finding that the word for ‘ mother ’ in unrelated languages often includes the sound ‘ ma ’ might lead us to look for sound symbolism as the underlying common factor . |
| 25 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 26 | Thank you for the home groups which help us to grow in fellowship . |
| 27 | We pray for our brothers and sisters in Judaism and Islam , with whom we live in this land , and with whom we share a common heritage ; help us to grow in understanding and appreciation of each other ; |
| 28 | It is for that very reason that I am moving this motion today as it gives us the opportunity to implement the rules of the union and at the same time would enable us to put into position , people who would be able to do all those things that are necessary to achieve what we require , recruitment , organization , paperwork , back-up service to full-time officials . |
| 29 | Erm , no yo I 've , er I 've asked him at the parents ' evening what he expected us to do for economics , right ? |
| 30 | That 's what they told us to do at school — ask a policeman if we 're lost . |