Example sentences of "[vb past] we [modal v] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After Dad died she promised we would visit Italy together , but somehow we never did . |
| 2 | So we still promised we 'd see nanny and we have n't , and we still promised to go to aunty 's and we have n't . |
| 3 | Oliver said , ‘ We 're going to play sardines , you promised we could play sardines … ’ |
| 4 | When I got rid of fear I found we could make friends . |
| 5 | Goram said : ‘ Not many people in England believed we could beat Leeds and I do n't suppose there are many Frenchmen who think we can beat Marseille either . |
| 6 | ‘ Like most married couples , ’ says Matthew , ‘ we imagined we 'd have children . |
| 7 | Discretion erring , our driver announced we would swap buses . |
| 8 | The road was now backing west towards the sea , and towards the place where I fancied we might see evidence of major geophysics at work . |
| 9 | We were in standard seven , the highest class , which meant we could leave school early , when we were thirteen , which would be another eighteen months at least for me . |
| 10 | We all unanimously felt we should take action . |
| 11 | We , on the other hand , were at that stage of life when we felt we could find time for anything that took our fancy . |
| 12 | When we moved , we knew we would have problems fitting into a smaller house . |
| 13 | He 's probably the most astute politician in the Middle East , and we knew we could do business with him . |
| 14 | Oh flowers Yeah I was going to say , I thought we might send flowers to her maybe on Thursday or Friday . |
| 15 | ‘ Thought we might take Oliver along with us . |
| 16 | Thought we might see Pam today . |
| 17 | Thought we might have Joanne and Paul round over the next couple of weeks or something before the wedding pre-wedding , it 's only about six weeks you know till their wedding ! |
| 18 | I thought we might have lunch ! |
| 19 | I thought we might have trouble lighting it , but within ten minutes it 's reaching temperatures of six or seven hundred degrees around the periphery |
| 20 | I thought we might have trouble lighting it , but within ten minutes it 's reaching temperatures of six or seven hundred degrees around the periphery |
| 21 | One day , in an elated mood , we thought we would give Eliot a surprise . |
| 22 | ‘ We thought we could pay people off , ’ says a businessman , ‘ and look who we paid most : the Iraqis , the Yemenis , the Jordanians , the Palestinians . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ My colleague and I thought we could stop patients ’ psychotic tendencies by removing the parts of the brain responsible for triggering violence . |
| 24 | I thought we could have lunch in the garden after your inspection — I 've already arranged for the fridge to be restocked — and afterwards , if you do n't fancy going to the beach , we could go out in my boat , or I 'll take you for a tour of North Zealand , through the quaint old villages with their farmhouses and gardens full of hollyhocks and the beech woods . |
| 25 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 26 | When I first started I thought we 'd have tutorials and seminars ; you get three or four students and you discuss something . |
| 27 | But in this programme you 'll appreciate this planned months , its planned , when did I first contact you ? , oh February was n't it , right , so we thought we 'd have pictures here and Sue would be talking in front of the pictures . |
| 28 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 29 | Oh she said we 'll make enquiries she said . |
| 30 | Ooh no , he said we 'll swop insurances that 's all he 'd say ! |