Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 2 | There was , however , no necessity for us to go down the hill for water , for if we continued a little further we should find a good spring on the road . |
| 3 | We should have a good and straightforward mechanism for importing documents into our system and exporting documents from our system . |
| 4 | We must get a good Virgin again . |
| 5 | Grating ginger , Phoebe Snow on the stereo thank you but I 'm just lookin ' , sipping wine , a wry smile damping her forest fire , she thought , at least we 'll have a good meal . |
| 6 | ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began . |
| 7 | Me brother and the two bairns are coming the morrow and we 'll have a good time . |
| 8 | One day I 'll tell Stuart about the flowers and what I did with them and I expect we 'll have a good laugh with Oliver as well . |
| 9 | We 'll have a good look at him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Just whip these in and then we 'll have a good look at you . |
| 11 | Got another couple of clients in the office right now , but we 'll have a good heart-to-heart when I ring you back . |
| 12 | And the young lads are listening and learning erm so hopefully , in a couple of years we 'll have a good side over here . |
| 13 | Chana Orloff , who was sitting next to her husband and Modigliani , was a little worried by the grandiose gesture , but the men shrugged and said : ‘ We 'll get a good meal ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll get a good price this year , what with the devaluation of the Green pound , ’ says the 41-year-old Ruscoe , his Stoke accent resonating across the Orkney landscape . |
| 15 | We might get a good ideas of the shape of the man we are promoting but do we really know the " shape " of the job he is going into ? |
| 16 | Dear Mr Westgate , I think we should have more footpaths or we might have a good chance of being killed . |
| 17 | If we could find a good home , you would at least be warm . ’ |
| 18 | We 'd want a good description to make sure the right property goes back to the right owner . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought we 'd have a good laugh when you came in , ’ she complained . |
| 20 | We 'd have a good chance of overpowering them . ’ |
| 21 | We 'd have a good time . " |
| 22 | We used to have a good long walk somewhere in the Dales every weekend . |
| 23 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 24 | As we explore the ramifications of their anatomy we shall encounter a good deal of the stupidity , the greed and self-interest , the plain conservatism — just human resistance to change of any kind — as well as the pure evil of human nature , working itself out in bricks and stone and mortar . |
| 25 | That way we shall have a good idea of all the different kinds of rose , where to look to find the right variety to suit a particular purpose , and more importantly , where not to look , and what to leave alone . |
| 26 | We shall have a good deal more to say about this in a later chapter . |
| 27 | ‘ We shall have a good deal to discuss , you know . |
| 28 | Presumably we shall have a good chew at the clause in Committee , but if it remains in that form we shall certainly be unable to support the Bill on Third Reading . |
| 29 | If we are to have a leaner , meaner , keener regular Army , inevitably we shall need a good Territorial Army to support it . |
| 30 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |