Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] we [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if anybody had got a cow and it calved , we used to go to him and say could we have the beastlings , please . |
| 2 | poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | with the bloke who we have it with and say can we have it a bit earlier . |
| 5 | he says , he says can we do it tonight ? |
| 6 | Only if this latter requirement is met can we begin to talk of linguistic competence . |
| 7 | It is not the purpose of this book to provide a history of coinage , however brief , but rather to focus on the methods by which coins are studied , for only when these methods are properly understood and applied can we realise the full potential of coins as an aid to interpreting the past . |
| 8 | With no disincentives for patients to request night visits and incentives for general practitioners to visit can we expect the increased level of activity to yield health or welfare benefits or avoid costs elsewhere in the system ? |
| 9 | Erm so we we asked and asked and asked could we change back to the old nutrients which we did do in the early part of December , and lo and behold , suddenly there was n't a problem . |
| 10 | Look can we do one show here we 're doing two at the moment ? |
| 11 | I 'd be loathe to push them any f tilt them into a position where they say , Well you know could we use for the dresser . |
| 12 | I was delighted to see that th on the if you are now considering buying extra funds to see an encouragement residential home places There is however an important issue where you get shall we say a quality development in a rural area , and I mean a quality development , which would be probably has to be above the rates quoted here where talk a discussion with the owners because they may not be available to local people and that does concern me a bit in rural areas . |
| 13 | We went to this restaurant one night up in the mountain , he was starting to tell you , we walked in and there was all these people about eighteen and twenty sitting in the middle of the room and we went in , and it was late , it must of been eleven and we said you know can we eat and he said yes , yes and after he said , he said |
| 14 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 15 | I was determined that I would not communicate this nervousness to my sons , and so I did my best not to react should we come across a dog in the street . |
| 16 | It 's the same as saying should we have a diesel engine or a petrol engine because a diesel engine is less than inflammable fuel-wise than petrol and I think these issues should be raised . |
| 17 | Well then did we all just sit there and say well you know do n't rot there 's nuclear sort of fallout and er oh dear erm what we going to do about it and decide should we get on onto it |
| 18 | Erm the criterion one that has been avoi has been described as a avoid the greenbelt to reflect the possibility or the theoretical possibility that er a new settlement could be er provided shall we say erm erm n on the inner edge of the greenbelt , if the scenario arose that the final definition of the York greenbelt did allow for that possibility to emerge . |
| 19 | What other things do you hope or do you think might happen shall we say ? |
| 20 | saying shall we lower your counters |
| 21 | The danger with that we believe could be that we would set a date for the merger and take all the important issues and discussions , how many regions will it have will we have , the those regions and a hundred and one other problems raised by that merger into a tight timescale . |
| 22 | Well I said to them before the game ‘ you know , people are saying can we make the players , can you win ten out of twelve ? ’ . |
| 23 | Oh it feels like yeah , extensions going on there , builders there , Now your insurance company have written back saying can we have a report because your investigations have been completed . |
| 24 | The two points which were made most strongly were , firstly , that they are so very much like humans in their reasoning and strategic thinking and secondly , that , to quote Dr Goodall , ‘ Only if we understand can we care . |
| 25 | Can , can we have can we have some light on ? |
| 26 | Only by making our processing needs known can we expect them to be catered for by the computer and data creation industries . |
| 27 | sending their mail to erm Body Shop er , they 'd been grooming their nails because they 've heard that the Body shops , in the paper the other day erm are paying ten pounds per nail if your nail 's an inch long , you know , so you cut this talon off if it 's an inch long and they had loads and loads of them sent in envelopes or people just ringing up and asking can we send our nail , ten pound a nail and they said , where the rumour started from these people had heard that because they do n't do erm experiments on animals any more they 're using nails to do experiments , the nail polish and that |
| 28 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 29 | I mean shall we take somebody with us ? |
| 30 | And only after they had been proven would we sell them to others . |