Example sentences of "[coord] we [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or we may be determined to catch a horse that does n't want to be caught ; and if we feel it strongly enough , the horse seems to feel our determination too , and suddenly stops running away from us and agrees to being haltered . |
| 2 | Now we may be baddies and decide to erect a battery-house for laying hens , or we may be goodies and decide to create a wilderness park for wildlife . |
| 3 | Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole . |
| 4 | In making a comparison we may be looking for points of similarity in order to aid our recognition ( and consequent action ) or we may be looking for points of difference . |
| 5 | We may feel we are expected to ‘ pull ourselves together ’ too quickly — or we may be unable to react to the death at all , even by crying . |
| 6 | So there we are we 've got one lot of twelve or we might be able to have two lots of what see what you can make with it for two lots . |
| 7 | We might be investigating it with an experiment or we might be doing some calculations on it . |
| 8 | After Warrington they 've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke . |
| 9 | The silences might be sudden , our held breath diffused by Tan beating shapes in the air , or we might be slid into stillness on an outbreath , to be surprised by a scrape of rebec sound , or a curve of pure trill from Fiona Milne 's skilful soprano . |
| 10 | ‘ Or we 'll be late . ’ |
| 11 | The cargo goes in the Zodiac or we 'll be carrying too much weight . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd better shower or we 'll be late . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Let's make tracks for Green 's or we 'll be late for supper . |
| 14 | ‘ So you 'd better hurry please , or we 'll be for it . ’ |
| 15 | Or we 'll be writing the whole books for them ! |
| 16 | Come on , Dad , or we 'll be late . |
| 17 | Please , Bernard , let me be converted or we 'll be separated after death and I could n't bear that . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There are grilles high up in the walls , so whatever happens do n't make a sound or we 'll be in a cell so fast your head will spin . ’ |
| 19 | Please for god 's sake stop playing Fairclough at the back — the defence is a shambles when he 's there — quite honestly I 'm getting pretty pissed off with Wilko — i know we 've had a long unbeaten run and we 're still second and he 's won us the championship etc etc and this is defenitely over reaction to last night but get rid of the fucking bastard and find us someone who 'll pick teams that can beat the Norwich 's and Man Utd7s of the league or we 'll be perenial mid table finishers . |
| 20 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 21 | Well , we ca n't wait till the end of Cubs or we 'll be too late going . |
| 22 | As I mentioned to you yesterday , those bastards are going to attack us , or we shall be attacking them tomorrow , certainly on the following day . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Better clear up , I suppose , or we shall be late for school . |
| 24 | ‘ We must hurry or we shall be late back , ’ she said rather distantly . |
| 25 | He made a powerful intervention claiming that we must know where we are before we can take decisions , or we shall be paying twice — once in respect of the negotiations and then for the GATT round . |
| 26 | It has to be at night or we 'd be seen . |
| 27 | We 'd go out for dinner or we 'd be |
| 28 | Every day , we can either be driven by the past — repeating our customary patterns and habits , believing in old limitations — or we can be propelled by our future , by our Dreams , by what we are becoming . |
| 29 | ‘ We can not afford a hope-for-the best cavalier approach or we will be cut to pieces on the break . ’ |
| 30 | We were not told where the train was going , but we were told that we must all clamber aboard or we should be left behind . |