Example sentences of "[pron] we [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm because when I was a little girl my brother and I we used to flowers because my mother sold flowers and we would have to deliver them . |
| 2 | I 'll get him I 'll get er Jane to give me a few dates and we 'll suit choose a suitable date and we 'll try all of the aspects everything about A L O work about the training , some of these we 've almost got solutions to ourselves we ought to be careful erm , if we can er draw up a proper agenda and discuss with him all of those issues |
| 3 | If we are to retain a level of even-handedness when dealing with employers ourselves we should at least make sure our own house is in order . |
| 4 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 5 | That is something of which we ought to be extremely wary . |
| 6 | But there 's no , it seems to me there 's no fundamental change in Government policy and if you are only bringing forward er a change in policy er to this alteration on the basis that er there was some extra P P G guidance we would n't just be dealing with countryside policy here we would be dealing with a policy about telecommunications , wind farms , a whole raft of things er which which we ought to be really dealing with . |
| 7 | Then came Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and miraculously the whole things was over , instead of our having to face what would probably be a long naval and air war against Japan , which we should of course have won in the end — after unthinkable losses of men and equipment . |
| 8 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 9 | It is clear that the ‘ costs charges and expenses ’ referred to both in the legal mortgage of 18 February 1985 ( which may be taken as typical of all the mortgage deeds ) and in the guarantee and debenture of 6 June 1985 may include both costs charges and expenses of or incidental to litigation ( which we will for convenience refer to as ‘ litigation costs ’ ) and costs , charges and expenses incurred otherwise than in connection with litigation ( ‘ non-litigation costs ’ ) . |
| 10 | This particularly applies in the case of professionals such as doctors and teachers who we ought to be able to trust . |
| 11 | because we have done everything we should of done , we 've defended the right all over the world , we went to the Falklands , we , we defended the right in it |
| 12 | He wants us to try and get everything we can without their knowledge , in the hope that then we 'll have some ammunition . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 're doing everything we can to be positive , to look to the future , and to be realistic about the present , ’ said that chirpy fatuity , Neil Kinnock , on the News ‘ 92 phone-in , perhaps the most dementing phone-in of them all ( Radio 1 , daily at 6.30 pm ) . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend rightly referred to our job as a guarantor power and , in that respect , we must do everything we can with the Turks , the Greeks and the Cypriots to help Secretary-General Perez De Cuellar to make some progress in his remaining weeks of office . |
| 15 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 16 | Can I ask , i i this is I do n't know why I keep asking to work , erm can I write to Mrs to I think we we ought to as it |
| 17 | And we thought we er , we we should of realised |
| 18 | But it , if if we wanted to change what we 've done already we we could at a certain stage have a level three , I mean I 've I 've ordered these books , you know mathematics level by level |
| 19 | You do n't want people knocking your door and er you know she up to the time she died we we used to be advised by her . |
| 20 | Erm another one we used to erm do of course that was a bit more adventuresome as we got older , what was called er Spirit Tapping . |
| 21 | turn it over on itself then the other one we used to half |
| 22 | ‘ And if we journey on with him we shall in any case finish the bread , ham , and cheese together . |
| 23 | If you were it probably be a bit different than it actually is dad said to me once that if he , that if he 'd like been in charge of it we 'd of gone to the Leeds and not St Augustine 's |
| 24 | Yeah , they would , let the bake it we used to Danish foods and cos we used to have a Danish er , we used to have erm Polish ship come in one week and an English ship come in the next week and the , the bacon was just pigs were all killed , wrapped in sacking and tied with string , and they used to be laid in the hold like that . |
| 25 | Aye well you see it we used to it does n't matter how she jumped and rolled , we were eating just the same . |
| 26 | Over and over again , in all cultures , psychoanalytic investigations insistently reveal what Freud termed the ‘ Oedipus complex ’ but what we might with equal justice call the ‘ Gelada complex ’ . |
| 27 | And the non-practitioners say , look , wait a minute , this is what we ought to be doing . |
| 28 | But the sort of criticism that says ‘ if we want to achieve X , I believe we are going the wrong way about it , what we ought to be doing is Y ’ , seems to me to be exactly the approach that is needed . |
| 29 | With that as the background , it is the time for a deep study of the philosophy underlying the system — to determine afresh what we ought to be seeking to achieve , to examine how far and in what manner the results of our present practice fall short , and to sift new ideas in order to judge which of them appear both constructive and practicable in operation . |
| 30 | I know what we ought to be looking for — a high , lonely place with dry soil , where rabbits can see and hear all round and men hardly ever come . |