Example sentences of "[adv] we [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were little children how eagerly we used to gather pieces of broken tile , little sticks , and mud with which to build houses and other tiny buildings , and if someone knocked them over , how heartbroken we were and how we cried ! |
| 2 | At 6 pm. we would return home . |
| 3 | Now we have done all we can do here , Hugh . |
| 4 | Let us also celebrate and exploit the opportunities that have been created by new media , and ensure that bookshops are seen as the distribution channel of choice , and that we do all we can to make the book the natural bedfellow of these emerging products . |
| 5 | They are an important part of our twin-track approach so that we not only come down hard on offenders who commit the crime of taking vehicles , but we do all we can to prevent youngsters from offending . |
| 6 | We have done all we can to keep these changes to a minimum . |
| 7 | Furthermore we may appear , by using an epidemiological approach , to have added to the stigma of heroin use by comparing it with a ‘ disease ’ . |
| 8 | When he gets to know us better we 'll get a hell of a welcome when we go in . |
| 9 | ‘ Better we should see you off than those bastards you expected , is n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | Despite Tory attempts , despite Tory attempts to darken the skies over , we have emerged into the sunlight , with building a better we will build a brighter future and I move the recommendation . |
| 11 | When we know each other better we will use more tactile communications , such as pushing , slapping , stroking and supportive gestures . |
| 12 | Because the more we hear from our Customers , the better we can make our service . |
| 13 | And then when things got a wee bitty better we used to have the Camerons up from Kilray from Kerry to dance to the Play at the dances . |
| 14 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 15 | Then suddenly we 'd have to laugh , you know ? |
| 16 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 17 | Books are not life , however much we might prefer it if they were . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think any of us knew how good he was a t the time , or know yet how much we 'll miss him now . ’ |
| 19 | Similarly , however much we may disapprove of the Nazis judging Hitler to be evil is not a satisfactory historical explanation . |
| 20 | However much we may lament Mr Swinton 's recent seclusion , we are forced to conclude that it has done him nothing but good . |
| 21 | We all know that , however much we may try to deter it , death is the only certainty . |
| 22 | However much we may criticize the details of the explanation they offer ( above , pp. 86–9 ) , the clear fact that latent inhibition shows context-specificity ( i.e. is most likely to occur when the context predicts the occurrence of the target stimulus ) constitutes good support for theories that emphasize the role of stimulus predictability . |
| 23 | However hopeful we may be , however much we may snatch at the more encouraging indicators , we can not look forward with any great confidence to a consumer recovery . |
| 24 | We correctly anticipated how much we would miss him , but the manner of his passing became him well . |
| 25 | In spite of her own feminism and socialism her films are not propagandist or didactic , as she was very well aware that : ‘ We were not engaged to indulge our own politics or socialism , however much we would have found satisfaction in doing so ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't know how much we can throw . ’ |
| 27 | It will have to be the shortened version , I 'm afraid , but you 'll be surprised how much we can cover in a few hours . ’ |
| 28 | We are born with all the potentiality for intelligence we are ever going to have , and there is not all that much we can do except to achieve as much of that potential as the world and its intelligence experts will permit us . |
| 29 | In fact most of the pressures the wildlife face are actually out at sea and there 's not really all that much we can do when that 's the case . |
| 30 | Not much we can do , unless she stops drinking . |