Example sentences of "we [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hurt , sometimes excruciatingly , but on the deepest level of all , it is somehow ‘ all right ’ ; and out of the praise and gratitude and joy that spring from it when we can grasp it , I think that we may give ourselves permission for the more mundane , but wonderfully healing emotion of happiness . |
| 2 | I do n't know , maybe we ought to give up work . |
| 3 | Well perhaps we ought to give people a s a a list a piece of paper and a pencil when they come into church one day , and say , Write down all the words that you hear today , or sing today that you do not understand . |
| 4 | I never thought it would work , but I felt we ought to give it a try . ’ |
| 5 | We decided we ought to give people the opportunity to see some of the water meadow . |
| 6 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 7 | As these authors point out , to can only be dropped ( optionally ) in non-assertive contexts ( as with dare and need ) , the to-less form being completely unacceptable to speakers of English in assertive uses : ( 78 ) * We ought give him another chance . |
| 8 | He declined to give any official view on the situation except to say : ‘ Any Marxist must say it 's a good thing that nobody has been hurt and we should give thanks to the police . ’ |
| 9 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 10 | ‘ We should give the face a chance , ’ Charsky said . |
| 11 | Views were expressed : ‘ Not only do we need to experience real work , ’ went the argument , ‘ but we should give up our holiday times to do it ! ’ |
| 12 | We should give thanks for their work and pray for them . |
| 13 | Do n't you think we should give him the benefit of the doubt ? ’ |
| 14 | That is , we can see that the answer we should give is , ‘ You ca n't , short of giving an entirely new meaning to ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , and why should you want to do that ? ’ |
| 15 | But I do n't think we should give her too long , cos she 's got herself into . |
| 16 | Not only was US advice on war plans to be sought and heeded but ‘ we should give our views on organization and training of army and advancement of senior Viet officers ’ and there should also be some Franco-American rather than Vietnamese control over the ‘ dilatory fiscal collections ’ of Vietnam . |
| 17 | They would want a lot ; there is no reason that we should give them everything they ask for . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is not an ideal system — some day no doubt the MR will be appointed by competitive examination in Law Reports , but it is our system for the present ; and we should give our party arrangements a wrench if we throw it aside . |
| 19 | We should give children books which stimulate them , which open their eyes , not confine them with safe lists . ’ |
| 20 | But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts . |
| 21 | I would say that to we should give you a bit of freedom in terms of price , therefore I think we should er allow you to spend up to say five thousand pounds ? |
| 22 | ‘ I think we should reinforce the fence with fine mesh , and we should give him somewhere to hide — a place inside his enclosure where he can feel safe . ’ |
| 23 | There is no one else on the Tory Benches , so perhaps we should give them time to get someone in to act as the Minister 's runner . |
| 24 | I believe that it is nonsense that we should give such asylum seekers any form of accommodation . |
| 25 | We should give thought to cleaning up the environment generally . |
| 26 | Yesterday , the shadow Chancellor said on the early morning news that Britain should fall into line with its partners — in other words , that we should give in to them without bothering to do anything to secure the best deal for this country . |
| 27 | Madam , I 'm gon na ask you to say in those circumstances that we should give him the maximum discharge . |
| 28 | I like I 'm sure others , once the issues were published for the E I P , took advice from the Home Secretary and were simply advised that the location that that we should give evidence on locational matters to the E I P and that is what we have done . |
| 29 | I think we should give Fairclough a pat on the back for his performances in the last few games . |
| 30 | Oh yes , I 'd like to erm er concur on what Linda just said about options , I do n't think we should give erm raffle tickets away as has been suggested . |