Example sentences of "we [verb] we [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People originally came to us for help with choosing wallpapers , paints , fabrics and curtains , but we realised we could give them a much broader service , ’ explains Jon . |
| 2 | How do we know we can trust you ? |
| 3 | ‘ This team is getting stronger and stronger and , just like every other club , we hope we can win it . |
| 4 | Four times people at higher levels tried to kill it off , and four times the people working on it came back and fought for it , argued for it , provided justification and evidence for why it should continue : ‘ Just give us a little more time ; we know we can make it work . ’ |
| 5 | As long as we feel we can sell them on and make a profit for the NECCR then we will be happy . |
| 6 | They were not going to fight any more , and we decided we must leave them on the island . |
| 7 | We decided we 'd confront it head on . |
| 8 | Well , after much deliberation and a family pow-wow or two we decided we 'd give it a go one Sunday afternoon , between the hours of 2 and 6pm . |
| 9 | And we decided we 'd have her . ’ |
| 10 | A spokesman said : ‘ The advice from Boeing is that the pins should be checked for wear after 3,000 cycles but we decided we will replace them as a matter of routine when they reach that figure . ’ |
| 11 | But we thought we ought to tell you , Sir Henry . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ For a time he was fighting for his life and we thought we might lose him . |
| 13 | We thought we might see you yesterday . ’ |
| 14 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 15 | ‘ We thought we would bring her over here for her first one , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Whether it 's a knitted or fabric item , suitable fillings will be required so we thought we would tell you about a couple of products from Abbey Quilting Ltd , a company which specialises in wadding and filling products for craftwork . |
| 17 | Coffee we said we thought we would get her some coffee while we were here did n't we ? |
| 18 | We thought we should force them to bring the price down . |
| 19 | We thought we 'd give him some work this time . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He said , ‘ let's try my method , you 've had the SMG , now try going to the top person and everything will be OK , ’ ' says Ramesh K. ‘ After the amount of hassle we 'd had , we thought we 'd give it a go . ’ |
| 21 | we thought we 'd try it out . |
| 22 | Oh very good , yes , aha , so er Jim 's been very busy with his talks and different things and er we packed in , you know , after Christmas cos we both worked and we thought we 'd have it , you know , and we caught this flu bug and |
| 23 | If we thought we could prevent it , we were deluding ourselves . " |
| 24 | Alright , we 'll try and find Mary for you and if we do we 'll give you a call Ida . |
| 25 | We 'll try and find Margaret and Joan , if we do we 'll give you a ring . |
| 26 | Alright , well we 'll try and get you some information and if we do we 'll give you a ring . |
| 27 | If we do we shall stamp it out . |
| 28 | ‘ When we do we will give it our full consideration . |
| 29 | We have not received the report of the social policy research unit at York , but when we do we will publish it urgently . |
| 30 | If we fail we will pay you £5.00 . |