Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all . |
| 2 | As our awareness of this quality of light increases , we may perceive it as centring on another figure — an inner or outer ‘ Lady of Light ’ — or as an identifiable principle to which we can begin to relate . |
| 3 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 4 | We may regard it as sharing with positivism the view that the significant features of a legal system ( that is , its aims and components ) can be adequately understood without reference to the political or economic realities in which the legal systems operates . |
| 5 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 6 | Exactly , we may make it the performance evaluation and the documentation attached to it that provides you your training record . |
| 7 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 8 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 9 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 10 | We need an investigator of your reputation , Curb , to seek out the criminal , so we may punish him ’ . |
| 11 | If you can show me plainly where Tutilo was until past that hour , we may strike him from the roll and forget him . ’ |
| 12 | Next we decide which of these reflect the most pressing problems and which become our aims for intervention ( I ) and consider how we may record them ( 4 ) . |
| 13 | Arguably it provides a very strong constraint on managers to act efficiently , if we may assume they are concerned about their future career path and if they believe that the firm does not systematically assess their performance wrongly . |
| 14 | When age and period interact , we may assume we are dealing with the unique experiences of a generation growing up under particular conditions . |
| 15 | We may lend you any amount from £500 to £10,000 ( in units of £10 ) and , in certain circumstances , may advance 100% of the cost , although we normally expect you to make some contribution from your savings . |
| 16 | She was very impressed and there is a possibility we may stock it in the future along with other similar species buyers are currently investigating . |
| 17 | You would work on that for two to three weeks and then we may send you to Chester-le-Street |
| 18 | We ask and for the younger nations help to grow to maturity Help us that wherever we may go we may amen |
| 19 | We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them . |
| 20 | If your little treasury was well buried among the coppice wood , Father Herluin , we may recover it yet . ’ |
| 21 | We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed . |
| 22 | We may think we are monitoring how they are getting on . |
| 23 | We may think we see the dead person walking down the street , or hear them calling our name . |
| 24 | Most schools that have gone grant maintained have declined to use the D S O. Now my concern is , erm that we 're not actually , when we come and compare with the outside world , we 're not actually giving the service that we may think we are . |
| 25 | We may think it hard-hearted of a Hagerhai woman to eat an animal that she once suckled , but at least the pig was recognised as an individual when it was alive — was even loved . |
| 26 | If this process becomes more than sporadic , we may label it ‘ critical ’ or ‘ reflexive ’ , in the sense of turning thought back on itself . |
| 27 | Whatever else we may suppose him to be , this pure life , the ineffable and incomprehensible good , is Beatitude . |
| 28 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 29 | We may feel we are expected to ‘ pull ourselves together ’ too quickly — or we may be unable to react to the death at all , even by crying . |
| 30 | If unleashed too suddenly , the pain can overwhelm us and we may feel it too much to endure . |