Example sentences of "we [vb base] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope they 'll breed in the barn again this year . |
| 2 | Each offers slightly different and more appropriate benefits to the players , so that the individuals have a secure platform from which we hope they will make serious bids for international success . |
| 3 | They used water wisely then and we hope they will continue to . |
| 4 | ‘ We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible , because it is not the sort of thing we like to have hanging over us . ’ |
| 5 | We hope they will have children ... |
| 6 | We hope they will respond in a very positive way . |
| 7 | That 's what in , in , in ground terms it means and we hope they will respond . |
| 8 | ‘ We hope they will resume talks , but we can not waste much more time . |
| 9 | Mr Marchant added : We hope they will adopt a responsible attitude to the problem . |
| 10 | We hope they will stimulate an interest in visual arts as a whole among young people . ’ |
| 11 | We must take note of trends and changes , we must recognise pressures as pressures , we may need to broaden our concepts and tolerance in marital issues and family concerns : but at least we can be fairly sure that marriage and the family as we know them will outlast our time . |
| 12 | Whether or not schools as we know them will exist in the future is uncertain but we can be sure that there will be information and that its importance will grow in social and economic terms . |
| 13 | Well let's not say all nine planets for all we know they 'll discover a new one tomorrow . |
| 14 | ‘ For all we know they might come back married . |
| 15 | ‘ Now we know they can go in and do a job . |
| 16 | We know they can play this game but the defence is shocking . |
| 17 | They can read , we know they can read ! |
| 18 | But this reverses the order of argument most of us would endorse : we share an understanding that our officials must treat all members of the community they govern as equals because we believe they should behave that way , not the other way around . " |
| 19 | Although they eyes were specifically designed for the Pyranha Mountain Bat , we feel they would work equally well on other boats . |
| 20 | Er we ca n't tell them how to use the money , we presume they will do that , erm this is a significant increase on the amount that the Conservatives seem to be suggesting which is just I think deputy heads so there are a hundred and forty thousand er deputy heads to go . |
| 21 | We think they 'll like them . |
| 22 | " If long putters enable more people to play without jeopardising the integrity of the game , we think they ought to continue to be used , " Bloch said . |
| 23 | It then becomes easy in service provision to slip almost unwittingly from providing what we think the clientele requires to providing what we think they ought to have . |
| 24 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 25 | We have done so because we think they can do it better than anyone else . |
| 26 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |