Example sentences of "[verb] we [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you behave , Victorine called after them : do n't give us cause to be ashamed of you . |
| 2 | While I can see that the woman you wrote about may well have deserved what she got — your report says the little girl was badly bruised — I do think we have to be wary of going to extremes . |
| 3 | We realised we had to be able to rely on good raw ingredients — that 's why we started farming . ’ |
| 4 | It is important to realise , however , that what we have discussed in this chapter is relevant to the next chapter , since if we want to know how language is understood we have to be aware of the large number of different levels of processing which are involved . |
| 5 | I suppose we have to be grateful that Mr Akhtar grudgingly refrains from asking us to ban the works of Voltaire , which seems a major concession from him . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 7 | I 'm saying we have to be self critical |
| 8 | Sergei and Masha came to my room and I opened a bottle of mineral water : we all felt we needed to be abstemious . |
| 9 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |
| 10 | ‘ The changing economic climate means we have to be flexible . |
| 11 | Did we want to be able to identify a ‘ schizophrenic ’ at ten paces ? |
| 12 | So having said that I thought that there were more important issues for the council to discuss , I do n't think it 'd be fair to let this second debate on the subject pass without actually making a few er er a very short erm a few short remarks cos I think we need to be clear about the issues . |
| 13 | But I think we need to be clear whether we are talking about ordained or lay people and further on in the discussion whether we can indeed justify that division . |
| 14 | I think we want to be encouraging young people because you told me that they 're all quite keen to do something for Save The Children Fund now it 's the seventy fifth year . |
| 15 | Do we want to be all that closely identified with the Government over a thing like this ? ’ |
| 16 | What training , in languages and other skills , do we need to be ready for the single market ? |
| 17 | Well the question then is do we need to be charging work supervisors |
| 18 | Do we plan to be full-time or merely spare-time smallholders ? |
| 19 | Assuming no factual memorandum is required we hope to be able to make our report available within [ specify number ] weeks of any such visit subject to the receipt of ‘ outside ’ information , for example , the report of the compensation valuer . |
| 20 | Have we got to be quiet ? |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ Mitch said with a considering look , ‘ normally I would say we wanted to be alone tonight , but as I 'm going to be an uncle very soon … ’ |
| 22 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |