Example sentences of "[adv] we [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 2 | Do you think perhaps we ought to erm ask the school if they 've got the letters ready yet , rather than |
| 3 | Perhaps we ought to lo well , what is weaning ? |
| 4 | If the latter are regarded as territory to be defended , as rallying cries for confrontation with others , perhaps we ought to be asking whether they need to be so territorial ? |
| 5 | and er actually that is something perhaps we ought to be talking about . |
| 6 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 7 | Furthermore , perhaps we should at least ask whether cremation is not really for the convenience of public health , efficiency , and land conservation rather than for people . |
| 8 | And if by any chance you ca n't manage dinner tonight perhaps we can at least have a drink together and fix some other time . ’ |
| 9 | So perhaps we can for the contribution that she 's made in sh in a short time . |
| 10 | So we might in fact simplify this by saying these are the enabling factors if you like , to leave home these are the motivating factors pulling us to a certain destination . |
| 11 | So we ought to be cheering as the big round numbers go by , leaving us healthy and whole . |
| 12 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 13 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 14 | And sometimes used to get a bit of a a bad storm ahead so we used to especially if you went from here to er North of Scotland round Cape . |
| 15 | So we must at least conclude from this that the purposes for which ordinary people wanted political democracy , or the vote , have not yet been completely fulfilled by any means . |
| 16 | Thus D1 is in general not of standard canonical form ; to make it so we must at least remove f . |
| 17 | And when they 're all filled in we shall in here . |
| 18 | I move my Lord Mayor , with great pride that this amendment be supported and final and finally we will to the electorate , as we did last year , and we will win and we 'll have more success next year than we had this year . |
| 19 | After Munich there was a positive lurch to prepare as best we could with the near-hopeless equipment available . |
| 20 | We swam for about quarter of an hour and then walked back to the cave , dried ourselves as best we could on our shirts , and drove on , chests bare . |
| 21 | We dried off as best we could at the expensive on-site tourist hotel and , as the mist rose and a pale sun came out , paid our money and entered the site itself . |
| 22 | But we actually needed a procedure , that procedure was followed as best we could by borrowing another rule and it was achieved at the end of the day . |
| 23 | Hepworth was to speak wistfully of ‘ a pressure in the air which we did not understand ’ , saying that ‘ we worked on as best we could in spite of it . ’ |
| 24 | Our next door neighbours at La Bérade , a father and son doing hut walks and easy passes , possessed a copy of Rebuffat 's Hundred Best Routes in the Dauphiné which we devoured as best we could in our compound fractured French . |
| 25 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 26 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 27 | And when we went to bed early we used to we One used to have to fill the kettle , and then the other one used to have to set the table for next morning for next morning . |
| 28 | switch it about , like we can with three times four and four times three , cos these are only numbers . |
| 29 | you , you ca n't carry , oh where 's the think that goes on the back ? , oh there , there we are , you ca n't carry the milk pet back because we ca n't put your foot rest up high like we can with the front one , so there 's nothing to balance it on , and if you drop it , the big plastic bottle will burst open , wo n't it ? put this rain hood |
| 30 | Perhaps they do n't have time to stand and talk like we used to . |