Example sentences of "[coord] we [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed foreigners Germans are now anticipating us & we shall learn from them to understand the production of our own country , always excepting the ornithology . ’ |
| 2 | We are disappointed too , on your behalf , but at least the Hertford offer sounds very interesting , & we shall look forward to hearing more about it . |
| 3 | Just say whether we can or we ca n't . |
| 4 | Yeah , but do n't rip the book , do n't rip the book or we ca n't show daddy |
| 5 | ‘ We are still within the amateur regulations or we would n't be here , ’ Grant Fox , the All Black outside-half , said yesterday . |
| 6 | I do n't know why they imagine it 's ‘ poofy ’ or we would n't find it attractive if they dressed up for us . |
| 7 | Nor can we think of the Christian God as three persons in the way that we normally consider them to be , or we would surely have to conclude that it was a religion committed to polytheism . |
| 8 | ‘ I know , ’ said Bragg amiably , ‘ or we would n't have come here , would we ? ’ |
| 9 | Or we would wish a society like Iran with its shariah or Islamic law , which punishes thieves by cutting off their hands ? |
| 10 | However , we would not want everyone to have this capability or we would spawn lots of different expert systems . |
| 11 | ‘ Obviously there 's something or we would n't be here . |
| 12 | His dark eyes lit up as he grinned and said , in only faintly accented English , ‘ We are lucky that the penalties for travelling in a first-class carriage on a third-class ticket are so severe or we would not have got on . ’ |
| 13 | You recall that we could not have the needles always selected in the same direction or we would end up with biased fabric ? |
| 14 | Or we would go to the coast to pick cotton , which is really exhausting . |
| 15 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 16 | ‘ You ca n't have any real scruples about our supposed affair or we would n't be working for you , so I can only assume that you 're making this personal attack for the sheer hell of it , because you once got a kick out of disapproving of me — despising me — and you 're trying to recapture the thrill of it all . ’ |
| 17 | If it was a warm , sunny day we would pack all our belongings into the caravan and then we would head to the beach or we would go swimming in the pool on the park . |
| 18 | Manifestly , we have no effective deterrent for hooligan crime , or we would not be debating the issue . |
| 19 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
| 20 | And we would defend that er er de or we would debate that as I understand it as where it should be debated at er the next stage of the planning process which will be an enquiry into a a planning application . |
| 21 | If we sh wanted other conditions we 'd live on a different planet or we would have developed on a different plant . |
| 22 | So er obviously I did n't know anything about the money owed or we would 've endeavoured to pay it off straight away when we went to the bank er originally when it went when it folded . |
| 23 | We got here in the nick of time or we would have had the rotten table otherwise . |
| 24 | Or we would know , you know . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course we must n't stop helping others , ’ said Trusty , ‘ but we must help ourselves too now or we sha n't have any where to meet . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Or we sha n't like what emerges . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Come along , Dorothy , or we sha n't get a seat . ’ |
| 28 | Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone . |
| 29 | Or we may be determined to catch a horse that does n't want to be caught ; and if we feel it strongly enough , the horse seems to feel our determination too , and suddenly stops running away from us and agrees to being haltered . |
| 30 | Now we may be baddies and decide to erect a battery-house for laying hens , or we may be goodies and decide to create a wilderness park for wildlife . |