Example sentences of "we really [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We really ought to hang on . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been thinking , we really ought to persuade your father to get dressed and come downstairs sometimes . |
| 3 | We really ought to do some baseline blood tests , and say |
| 4 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 5 | Klaus , is n't it ? and Klara — Oh , of course — ’ corrected — ‘ Erika , Fritz , Rosa … we really ought to see you more often , ought we not ? |
| 6 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |
| 7 | ‘ We really ought to make a start on getting this place cleaned up , you know . |
| 8 | Yeah , we , we really ought to check the sequence . |
| 9 | So you 've go got a situation where if somebody wants to change something they 're actually , you know maybe it 's something you do in a job or something like this , and somebody says we , we really ought to change this . |
| 10 | We really ought to have noted the various quantities remaining , when Dr Burney offered to tell us this morning . |
| 11 | And in fact if you look at the the comments i i the blue book , erm on page thirty seven of the D O E , they have suggested as Mr has just confirmed , that we really ought to have made progress on that before there is an approved any move towards approving the alteration . |
| 12 | We really ought to have transferred the money |
| 13 | We really ought to have these n these P O A customers with their pl with with their blind lists on the computer . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose we really ought to get down to some serious work , ’ Ruth suggested lazily , stretching her legs under the table and gazing out across the blue bay of Palma with its crowd of boats and yachts bobbing and , beyond , the profusion of high-rise apartments and hotels . |
| 15 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 16 | ‘ I thought we really would make a new start , that I would sort of … make him blossom . ’ |
| 17 | This , surely , is much more like what we really would say in a normal conversation . |
| 18 | Therefore , when it came to the social charter , when we really would have liked to influence events , Britain was left with no negotiating power , few friends and only one course of action — to opt out of the social dimension altogether . |
| 19 | On his present form we really would have been better sticking with Chappie . |
| 20 | ‘ If we had n't changed record companies , we really would have split up , ’ announces Dunfermline-based Adamson , hailing it as ‘ the best record we 've done — if not ever then certainly since the first two ’ . |
| 21 | Whereas if it had been standing room , we really would have been standing . |
| 22 | They really are a very vibrant organization , and er , I think we really would wish them well , and , and very pleasing to see them adapting to the new circumstances . |
| 23 | Now I fear we really must stop corresponding . |
| 24 | I feel strongly that if the library and information profession is to play a significant role in the handling of information within business ( and other ) organisations , we really must stop pussy-footing around with weak half-baked notions ! |
| 25 | One day we really must do something about clearing them out . |
| 26 | ‘ Sorry , but we really must do something . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , Karen , we really must leave the factory . |
| 28 | But it would depend very much on you getting hold of the relevant minister-it would probably almost inevitably be your own secretary of state- and saying , ‘ Look we really must have a situation where there is a discussion about the Falklands . ’ |
| 29 | So we really must have that back , and I think we must have it in the er traditional tune . |
| 30 | ‘ And if she has to stay away , ’ said Miss Barrett , ‘ we really must have a note . ’ |