Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am writing direct to say I hope we may meet when you are in the UK next month , and sorry I am you were too busy to manage even a few words on the ‘ phone earlier this week . |
| 2 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
| 3 | We may ask if we would have different views on the interrelationships of modern craniates if we had no fossils . |
| 4 | There is one further point : we may wonder if we can question the verb and noun phrase together while " leaving behind " the adjective . |
| 5 | ‘ Also I am concerned about the strength of the winds and currents which we may encounter once we have left the shelter of the land . ’ |
| 6 | Where the " we " -groups are exogamous , as is very often the case , the " we/they " distinction corresponds exactly to the distinction " those with whom we may not intermarry because they are of common substance with us " / " those with whom we may intermarry because they are not of common substance with us " . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you think we ought to wait till we 're sure ? ’ |
| 8 | But surely we ought to pause before we accept that ethics and law are irrelevant here . |
| 9 | Or is there an area which you would get into on the question of whether how hard we should struggle before we er , do that sort of thing , or whether it 's purely a matter for for the County Council |
| 10 | Another thing that the superego does that we , we should mention because it 's often forgotten , is to provide the ego with a sense of reality . |
| 11 | Perhaps we should reconsider whether it is necessary to give women a precise date on which they should expect their baby to arrive . |
| 12 | This is just what we should expect if they are playing Tit for Tat . |
| 13 | The payoff matrix in Figure D is what we should expect if they were . |
| 14 | Such horses are hopeless at dressage , because they always decide what we should do before we ask them . |
| 15 | Even young people have ideas and can make up their own minds , and he did n't want to tell us what he thought we should do because it was our lives and he realised that . ’ |
| 16 | what we should do when you 're doing these and we took one apart but we did n't break them |
| 17 | Maybe we should do if you want to ask the question again . |
| 18 | There may be matters we should discuss before you leave . ’ |
| 19 | Thus the rationality of expectations imposes restrictions on what we should find when we estimate equation ( 3.18 ) . |
| 20 | He always spoke the truth whether it was popular or not , he lo loves provided an example and we should follow if we want to please God . |
| 21 | I think maybe we should take as we look at all the procedures where we have suggested be draft . |
| 22 | Instead , argues Cummins , we should ask whether they are being given the confidence and motivation to succeed academically . |
| 23 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 24 | We should ask if it is product ( end ) or problem ( origin ) that should be seen as the generic base of what design is ' — not as a challenge to construct a dialectical , interactionist model of design activity , which takes each of these moments seriously as a necessary moment or characteristic of " what design is " , but as an affront to rationalism . |
| 25 | Yeah the advert for them , well we 'll go out there first thing , I mean we 'll go out there first and then we can come back and get a card and we should know whether we 've got to get one here or not sha n't we ? |
| 26 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 27 | It is to these factors , rather than to artillery itself , that we should turn if we wish to see which arms were proving to be of the greatest significance in the war . |
| 28 | And as I stoode myself alloone upon the Nuwe Yeare night , I prayed unto the frosty moone , with her pale light — what a dull time we should have if we tried to read our way through The Fall of Princes ? |
| 29 | We should wait until we are quite certain that all is well . |
| 30 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |