Example sentences of "we [vb base] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Touche Ross are wasting their time and our money , and we regret that they 've taken this action . ’ |
| 2 | Spokesman Kevin Flynn added : ‘ We regret that it has occured . |
| 3 | If by then you 're not completely hooked ( We know you will be ! ) then we insist that you send it back to us for an immediate full refund . |
| 4 | We trust that you came up with some workable proposals . |
| 5 | So , although we have of course taken a view of what has been significant , we deny that we have been ethnocentric in our choice of an Anglo-American focus . |
| 6 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |
| 7 | We say we are thirsty when we mean that we fancy a glass of wine , a pint of beer , a gin and tonic or a shot of whisky — the pleasure of naming our poison — at the end of a busy day or tiresome week . |
| 8 | If by this we mean that we explain real spiritual forces in mythic language because there is no other adequate language to explain them , that , it seems to me , is reasonable enough . |
| 9 | We suggest that you set out the following information in such a way that , in the air , you can select any item immediately , and without confusion . |
| 10 | We suggest that you keep these to a minimum . |
| 11 | During the week , we suggest that you go shopping after breakfast or lunch , or perhaps after your evening meal . |
| 12 | We have asked our client to keep any appointment which you make and we suggest that you send notification of the appointment to our client 's home address . |
| 13 | Our Appointed Repairers Scheme is designed to supplement this inspection service and if you live in an area covered by the Scheme and you intend to make a claim under the policy for damage to your motor car we suggest that you consult one of our Appointed Repairers who will offer you the following advantages should they carry out the repair : — |
| 14 | We suggest that you check your oven temperature with a thermometer or set it 10° lower — make sure you check the manufacturer 's instructions first as some are already adjusted . |
| 15 | Remember — it 's always worth turning up even for the most popular events , but we suggest that you check with the Box Office on availability first . |
| 16 | We suggest that it enables the parents to pay a compliment to close friends by inviting them to be godparents . |
| 17 | UTOPIA : We propose that it begins , as you say , with the most advanced technologies we know , but with a new factor that changes the picture completely : negative growth , or rather planned economic decline . |
| 18 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 19 | But at the last minute , self-interest takes over ; in the stark presence of the perforated piece of paper and a stub of pencil on a string , we realise that we have to live in the ‘ real world ’ , and our courage fails us . |
| 20 | Then , just when we think we 've really let go , we realise that we do n't want our children making just any old choice . |
| 21 | That 's why I say to you , you say oh we 've got this we 've got that we want that we want this but er I tell you two thousand nineteen and you 're at nineteen ninety two . |
| 22 | Now we produce erm about half a million or 550,000 units a year , that is not volume in world terms er we acknowledge that we compete in some of the volume sectors , but increasingly as our new products are introduced , we 're very careful to put them in discrete market segments or in niches . |
| 23 | If we say that they do have something in common with other things that look white we must remember that their having something in common simply is their looking white . |
| 24 | That 's what we mean when we say that we make cookers for cooks . |
| 25 | Thus , intergenerational expectations are created ; we say that we know what it is like to be a child ; we have some understanding of the needs , joys and sorrows of childhood ‘ from the inside ’ . |
| 26 | The jobs from which we say that we want to rescue people are in industries which , thankfully , are now in decline . |
| 27 | It expresses what we mean when we say that we have our reservations or vacillate about something . |
| 28 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |
| 29 | When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back . |
| 30 | When its output is 1 , we say that it fires . |