Example sentences of "we [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Right we better go mate ! |
2 | ‘ Come on Polly , we better help look for 'em before it gets dark , ’ Dad suggested . |
3 | MIGHT we perhaps offer discount vouchers [ appliances or gas ] to people who say ‘ yes ’ before the main gets laid in their street ? |
4 | Can we just take check then there how that leaves us with our recurrent recruitment program . |
5 | Why do we generally make wine from grapes rather than any other fruit ? |
6 | Shall we soon abolish death and refer to someone dead as having a life problem ? |
7 | Do we still need stuff from schools in |
8 | Disposable society : So why do we still hear clamour from the environmentally conscious that plastics represent everything bad in our disposable society ? |
9 | But the thing is , can we still have fun ? |
10 | Do n't we also want revelation , surprise , inspiration from the wild ? |
11 | Do n't we also want revelation , surprise , inspiration from the wild ? ’ |
12 | Second , may we also have permission to borrow , for display in our exhibition , the large Slezer print from your Cowan bequest ‘ The Prospect of Edinburgh from Ye North ’ , which is on display in the Edinburgh Room . |
13 | As individuals do we accept our responsibility to be peacemakers or do we passively allow aggression to be part of our lives ? |
14 | At the very least , the exhibition provides food for thought : as the 21st century nears , do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th ? |
15 | Do we really want nature to be so comprehensively at our back and call ? |
16 | ‘ Do we really want nature to be so comprehensively at our beck and call ? |
17 | Blades and knives are endemic on our streets — do we really need sword swallowers and self-mutilators on the stage , supposedly in the name of art and entertainment ? |
18 | Nor do we yet have evidence that removal of proximal adenomas prevents proximal colon cancer . |
19 | We have more houses than we have ever had , how can we yet have homelessness ? |
20 | We have more jobs than ever before , how can we yet have unemployment ? |
21 | We are quick enough to admonish and complain and rebuke , but all too seldom do we actually give praise when either an outstanding achievement has been made , or even more rarely , when an outstanding effort has been made but has not succeeded . |
22 | The other meaning uses plastered in the type of structure which we have introduced in the present section ; notice that it allows addition of to be ( and that it is parallel in its overall structure to ( 42 ) where there is a non-finite clause complete with subject , verb and object ) : ( 41 ) Clara wants the façade to be plastered ( 42 ) she wants the builders to plaster the façade Let us also take note of a subtle and rather interesting ambiguity , found in : ( 43 ) Oliver imagined her red-haired This may mean that Oliver is allowing himself to speculate on the effect of , let us say , adding a wig to a blonde lady of his acquaintance ( and this may therefore be called the " cosmetic " version ) ; or he may be trying to build a mental picture of someone he has never met ( the " unacquainted " version ) , in which case imagined could be replaced by supposed with very little alteration in the meaning of the whole . |
23 | Let us now introduce sustainability . |