Example sentences of "[that] we [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 And they would be looking for a bed for the night and it would be in the old hay shed that we would put them but there would n't be a problem .
32 That mix-up caused us serious problems for the rest of the campaign because we had to be constantly reassuring the media that we would get them good positions .
33 So we though that we would try it in general practice .
34 We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular .
35 Yes , but we decided that we would ask them what , they could offer us first , or what they wanted , that is .
36 I put him on notice that we shall ask him what he has done to provide extra resources to the prison service .
37 Are you saying that we ought to do you 're gon na take this
38 But it does not follow from this , as Rollin seems to suppose , that we ought to allow them to do so in the absence of clear signs of distress .
39 Yeah , well I think that we ought to get them or somebody to put a retraction , I mean we dare n't do it ourselves , but I think in next month 's
40 We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home .
41 That we 'd get it right first time round ?
42 ‘ He left it all to me to sort out with the planning department and I had to plead that we 'd lose him altogether if we made a problem . ’
43 ‘ And tell the coffee ladies that we 'd like ours in , say , three-quarters of an hour ? ’
44 Well plus plus the fact that erm it 's not that you have n't got one , or it 's not that we 'd need you to drive it 's that you 're denying us the privilege of being able to send you .
45 This breaking-down of the time barrier could be extremely exciting ; at the same time , the very idea introduces so many paradoxes ( if you communicate with the past you change it ; you therefore change the present ; therefore , in this new present , you never communicated with the past ) that we must think it unlikely that people will ever be able to use tachyons in this way … unless communications were flitting between alternate universes , the existence of which would imply the simultaneous reality of all possibilities .
46 I am not , then , when I claim that the existence of God does not need to be proved , denying that we must show it to be reasonable to believe in God .
47 There also is an empirical problem of understanding how support operates between grandparents and grandchildren , in that we must disentangle it from support given to and by the intervening generation .
48 They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it .
49 I feel that we must take it almost immediately , because if those bricks do go , we 're going to have a major .
50 The Prelude , which is , in fact , the nearest thing to the great philosophical poem which Coleridge hoped Wordsworth would produce , was mostly written while Coleridge was in Malta , and it is as an exposition of Wordsworth 's ideas that we must read it ; for Coleridge , as we shall see , had already begun to return to orthodox Christianity and in 1803 was shocked at Wordsworth 's irreverence : ‘ O dearest William !
51 Er of tory council and policy perhaps we would not have to be saying to our tenants that we must raise you rents by nine point four percent this year and let's not forget seventeen nine , I think seventeen point six percent last year that were government guidelines .
52 There was so much that we used to cut it into strips and string it from the eaves to dry in the wind and sun .
53 Its original purpose was to enable us to turn our work so that we could rehang it with the plain side towards us , knit a few rows of reversed stocking stitch and then turn it back again to continue in stocking stitch or pattern .
54 Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us .
55 See we we have an awful lot of problems , I mean , not only the question of breaking into one 's home things like , car parking or things of a very high accident risk whereas , if we had a beat officer , at least we could set up some sort of local liaison , in so much that we could tell him about our sort of problems , and perhaps between us , resolve them .
56 He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’
57 We had to organise it so that we could move it on a Saturday night from Manchester to Oxford and get it ready for a full orchestra , circus , and technical rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon .
58 the point of view that the P A was booked for four thirty , so that we could set it up
59 Next morning after breakfast we asked Magwitch to tell us more about his past life , so that we could protect him better .
60 ft informed us that he was leaving Salamanca for England on his motor bike , via Cherbourg , and that we could expect him in Bath on a certain day .
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