Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We regret to have to inform you that a further breach has now come to our attention and we are instructed by our clients to write to you about it . |
| 2 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 3 | What criteria should any experiment we made try to meet to satisfy the claim that the process we were studying was a necessary , sufficient and possibly even specific aspect of the memory formation process ? |
| 4 | But the past conditional is a notoriously tricky area , even for mother-tongue speakers , and there 's no point in speculating on which way the final result might have gone if we wouldn't 've scored that first goal , Ron . |
| 5 | We are what we eat has become such a cliché that we rarely stop to think about it nowadays . |
| 6 | In modern times , the demands we make have changed in some ways . |
| 7 | It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level . |
| 8 | ‘ We intend to continue to increase output and drive our unit costs down to a level at which they are competitive with other sources of electricity generations . ’ |
| 9 | Many members will be aware that the professional advice on which N C V O depends is also available to them , and other organisations , particularly in the areas of legal work , personnel , finance and office technology , we find there is a high demand for advice which we intend to continue to satisfy in the years ahead . |
| 10 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 11 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |
| 12 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |
| 13 | But it comes down to , first of all , whether it 's sensible to borrow against assets , and all of us do if we 're lucky enough to own our own homes we tend to have borrowed either our first mortgage or sometimes a second against it , and we make our own judgement , and I see there are some suggestions on how the Government spotted this with regard to schools in suggesting that perhaps schools could raise money by mortgaging their school buildings , of course |
| 14 | One school of thought within psychology is that we tend to get hooked into behaviour patterns if they produce intermittent rewards . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why we got married see . |
| 16 | But when we got married see that complicated things because if anything had happened to me |
| 17 | As I feel so well now I have been able to sort out the problems with my husband and we now feel that we have got back the relationship we got married to share . |
| 18 | Er we got leave to use it in the playground as far as I can imagine but we made an awful division or if we did n't it pretty quickly in the class . |
| 19 | Ha ha , it 's your au — fr … parents ' friend , Janice , Gav beamed , radiating unrepentant guilt ; came round here the other day looking for you we got talking went for a curry had a few drinks ended up back here one thing led to another know how it is always liked older women they 're more experienced know what I mean arf arf anyway spent an extremely enjoyable New Year at her place apart from the usual visit to my folk 's of course oh by the way she 's coming round here tonight I 'm cooking lasagne can you swap rooms seeing Norris wo n't be back until tomorrow it 's just I did n't expect you back until then either , that okay ? |
| 20 | Yeah we did we wouldn't 've had as well . |
| 21 | And what did we want to do select printer looks like a good idea . |
| 22 | No , we had a cheque which we presumed had come from Social Services |
| 23 | How much further do we need to explore to discover happiness in God ? |
| 24 | So what would we need to do to make that disappear ? |
| 25 | ‘ I mean , what else do we need to do to make the thing totally immobile , ’ he said stonily . |
| 26 | We are delighted to report that the ensuing debate we helped stimulate has transformed this orthodoxy into a vision now worthy of positive support . |
| 27 | We arc trying to find out . |
| 28 | Every society needs its flawed heroes , and we appear to have saddled ourselves with rock singers and movie stars . |
| 29 | Against the naive assumption that if it says so in the book ( or the paper , or the report ) it must be true , we appear to have cast doubt on every type of written document ever produced . |
| 30 | Indeed , by about the middle of the morning we feel surprisingly alert — we might even not bother with sleep after all — and we appear to have overcome the effects of a lost night ‘ s sleep . |