Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile , we may go back to the situation in 1072 , and begin with some words of Lanfranc which provide the main evidence for the documents which existed at this date .
2 One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters .
3 So if we would like further consultation apparently it was noted in view of the test carry out what we could do erm in fact the questionnaires have the response , I do share some of Mr 's er er worries that erm I think we ought to get out of the way and say to number one that this er .
4 Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend .
5 ‘ Perhaps we should pass on to the home-made cakes , ’ said Mervyn .
6 ‘ I think we should go through to the dining-room now .
7 We are democrats and accept that until we have convinced people by the force of our argument , we should go along with the view of the majority of the organisations of which we are a member .
8 It is a ludicrous situation and we should go back to the drawing board and start afresh . ’
9 I think we should go back by the paths .
10 We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs .
11 After one alarmed glance at her apoplectic face , Mr Loveitt said smoothly : ‘ I think we should get back to the facts .
12 ‘ There 's nothing I 'd like better than to stay here and make love to you all day , but I think after breakfast we should get back to the palazzo . ’
13 Maybe we should listen out for the noise in the voices of Kristin Hersh , Tim Buckley , Prince , Michael Jackson — the way they chew and twist language not for any decipherable , expressive reason , ( that 's to say , not to accentuate more deeply the conventional mannerisms of ‘ passion ’ ) , but for the gratuitous voluptuousness of utterance itself .
14 We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it .
15 There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . "
16 Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation .
17 We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night .
18 Yet we must hold on to the basic idea that science discovers the truth of how the world works .
19 Once we have incorporated the Maastricht treaty into our law — presumably , as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said , in the first Session of the new Parliament — we must press on in the second half of 1992 , when we have the presidency of the Community , to set out more clearly our vision of a common European future .
20 On the first point : if we want to grow we must reach out beyond the circle of friends to people who have previously had nothing to do with CPRW .
21 We must go up in the loft and find your clothes
22 For the source of this we must go back to the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC , whose cosmological speculations were based on the ‘ tetracys ’ , that is , the geometrical symbol composed of ten discrete points symmetrically arranged in the form of an equilateral triangle with sides of four points each .
23 In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man .
24 Nothing would do but we must go out on the river .
25 Using other kinds of evidence , we must move out to the localities , and the counties .
26 We must face up to the harsh fact that the present social and economic pattern of farming in the EEC can no longer be maintained .
27 We must hit back with the truth
28 If there is doubt and unbelief to be overcome , it is outside of us , and like St George we must venture out of the camp and slay the dragons for the honour of faith .
29 To define Rottweiler character , we must look back to the breed 's history .
30 First , however , we must come back to the question of how to read a contingency table when one variable can be considered a cause of the other .
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