Example sentences of "we [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't we eat around here ? ’ |
| 2 | Could n't we eat out of doors ? |
| 3 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 4 | I thought : if Richard and I had a daughter , would we quarrel over this ? |
| 5 | So , thought Meredith grimly when she had arrived back in the kitchen of Rose Cottage , do we rush on madly to our doom . |
| 6 | We did we 've just completed we 've done three or four others . |
| 7 | They ca n't they wo n't we 've already |
| 8 | No but we do W we we 've always er celebrated Guy Fawkes for some strange reason , which seems |
| 9 | See we 've twice as divisional quality manager half an hour each week looking at . |
| 10 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 11 | You ca n't we 've only got two lights here |
| 12 | As you can see we 've so far spent just under 500 dollars ! ’ |
| 13 | No I do n't w we 've never attempted to define development in those terms . |
| 14 | Why , in particular , should we rule out a fourth possibility , that the origin of life is a far more probable event than is suggested by Statement 3 ? |
| 15 | He had a limp , he had a false leg , and of course , when you 're kids it strikes you as very funny to have a woodwork teacher with a wooden leg , so he 'd say , ‘ What shall we make today , kids ? ’ and we 'd go ‘ Want another leg , sir ? ’ and things like that . |
| 16 | It 's excuse me ca n't we make up our own language |
| 17 | Regarding identifying one another , why do n't we make up some silly badges or something . |
| 18 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 19 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
| 20 | ‘ In fact , ’ Luke was saying , ‘ now that you 've got it into your head that Rob 's happy with Heather , why do n't we throw out all the aggro and start from scratch ? |
| 21 | ‘ Why must we tread carefully , Miss Honey ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ May we stay here for a little , until we find a place of our own ? ’ |
| 23 | And erm they walk into the , the hotel and they say can we stay here and he goes yeah , you can stay here on one condition . |
| 24 | Daddy , why do n't we stay on , just until they do ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Ca n't we stay out all night ? ’ |
| 26 | I mean do we want to go and stay with the children at camp or shall we stay home ? |
| 27 | Now which one can we stay in ? |
| 28 | What would we think today of a Lewis Carroll whose passion was to photograph little girls naked ? |
| 29 | Can we think back to the original complaints about company car allocation ? ’ |
| 30 | So what do we think now ? |