Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 2 | ‘ They ought to thank us for letting our Thing do their job for them , ’ said Gurder solemnly . |
| 3 | We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed . |
| 4 | ‘ You may think we 've been putting pressure on you , but — ’ |
| 5 | We may think we are monitoring how they are getting on . |
| 6 | We may think we see the dead person walking down the street , or hear them calling our name . |
| 7 | Most schools that have gone grant maintained have declined to use the D S O. Now my concern is , erm that we 're not actually , when we come and compare with the outside world , we 're not actually giving the service that we may think we are . |
| 8 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 9 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 10 | Our parents may want us to have ‘ what they never had ’ — may want us to fulfil their own frustrated dreams . |
| 11 | Our parents may want us to have ‘ what they never had ’ — may want us to fulfil their own frustrated dreams . |
| 12 | ‘ Miss Havisham may want us to spend more time together in future . |
| 13 | Excessive heat may make us feel ‘ stupid ’ and unable to function mentally . |
| 14 | The problems of the informal interview , then , are considerable , and they may make us feel that the formal type of interview is much less beset with difficulties and open to the criticism of lack of scientific method . |
| 15 | Fear of losing our grip may make us hang on to jobs for longer than we should , in an attempt to reassure ourselves . |
| 16 | Dame Edna Everage may make us laugh at prejudice , but are we smiling or laughing at ourselves ? |
| 17 | Guilt-feeling may make us angry . |
| 18 | It may make us unhappy , but it insists that the mechanical and the material need n't be in charge . |
| 19 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
| 20 | Whilst ‘ Kubla Khan ’ may delight us it does not delight Coleridge , who has seem the real thing . |
| 21 | If we 're able to use it the cold may win us a few days in which to withdraw to bed and grieve gently for ourselves ; if not at least we can weep openly at work , blowing our nose and wiping our eyes , and get a little consideration and sympathy from others for our sad lot . |
| 22 | The opinions of others may direct us how to think and react . |
| 23 | Next door must think we 're up to something kinky . |
| 24 | ‘ They must think we are mugs , offering us inferior players for our best player . ’ |
| 25 | They must think we 're holding out on them . |
| 26 | ‘ They must think we 're stupid . |
| 27 | ‘ You must think we 're a funny family , Roy , ’ she said , not looking up . |
| 28 | ‘ You must think we 're all very wicked sometimes , Mr Devlin , but you must understand how it started . |
| 29 | Yes we ca I think these ducks must think we 've got some bread for them , but we have n't have we ? |
| 30 | You really must think we 're daft . |