Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But , as I recollect it , I — or rather we — escorted you to your room that night , not you to ours . |
| 2 | ‘ The reason for this is just that in these matters custom makes us reason and judge so quickly , or rather we recall the judgments previously made about similar things ; and thus we fail to distinguish the difference between these operations and a simple sense perception ’ . |
| 3 | We are sorry to be negative but , quite simply , we just do n't trust you , or rather we do n't think that you yet trust yourself to know exactly what 4oz ( 115g ) of lean meat , 6oz ( 170g ) of fish , 2oz ( 55g ) of carrots , or 4oz ( 115g ) peas really look like . |
| 4 | The Gorengs ' effects made the sea-passage with us ; or rather we made the passage with the effects , for that was the whole idea . |
| 5 | And I think this one is better for several reasons , I think you can quite clearly see now once you 've had a chance to look at this , the other one we saw , we , we eliminated this boat , we eliminate that post and this boat , or rather we just have this post and the sea beyond . |
| 6 | Some tyre levers and allan keys were missing but by driving slowly back I ( or rather we , as I 'd offered some fellow tourists a lift back to town ; what with delays getting started , and then this to-do , I bet they wished they 'd never bothered , it would have been quicker to walk ! — and when we finally did set off again , I accidentally left one of them behind , running along the road behind us waving and shouting ! ) — we , as I say , found most of the missing items . |
| 7 | He further pondered two opposing maxims , Benjamin Franklin 's ‘ We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately ’ , and Karl Liebknecht 's ‘ The basic law of capitalism is you or I , not both you and I ’ . |
| 8 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 9 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 10 | Effectively it makes the tie a one match game at Elland Road — if we win 1–0 or better we are through . |
| 11 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Or perhaps we 've strayed into a black hole , ’ Philip Swallow continues , evidently enchanted with his flight of astronomical fancy . |
| 13 | We can see that he had two views of what constitutes a ‘ law ’ , or perhaps we should say that he had two views as to how ‘ laws ’ manifest themselves . |
| 14 | If she had bouts of crying , she kept them to herself , or perhaps we simply did n't notice . |
| 15 | Or perhaps we should say , Frenchly baked every day . |
| 16 | Enclosure made things more difficult , or perhaps we should say necessitated new and exciting skills , but at least there were no close ranks of trees to make the fences impossible . |
| 17 | " Well , or perhaps we could make some . |
| 18 | But at the end of the discussions between the project coordinator and the client , when you have actually helped him and led along , you could have this , or you could have that , or perhaps we could just take it to this stage , cost some options out and give you a recommendation . |
| 19 | ‘ Penny , this is Miss Broome — or perhaps we may call you Ianthe ? |
| 20 | Or perhaps we wo n't . |
| 21 | Or perhaps we just crunched over them . |
| 22 | They might appear there when normal syntax has to be subordinated to the exigencies of poetry ( or perhaps we should say " of unskilful poetry " ) and they may occur postnominally in prose in one or two special constructions . |
| 23 | conjures up images and I just object to the fact that people impose on us , degrenality , I mean I , I think lesbian 's and gay men have got a right to their life style as we have and I do n't think we should be actually imposing and I think that 's what a lot of society and what people come out with does er more or less we do n't agree with that and its wrong and its objectional |
| 24 | We have in our contract that more or less we will get out after three weeks . |
| 25 | well Des , she heard Des look talking about it and er she said has she heard anything and I said no , I said not fully but more or less we stayed in yesterday cos you said shall we go out did n't you ? |
| 26 | And I said more or less we stayed in but not a word . |
| 27 | For a second or so we are undecided about whether the patch is an after-image or a spot of mildew on the wall . |
| 28 | After 10 minutes or so we both got the most appalling horrors . |
| 29 | After an hour or so we reached a Slovak village with houses in the traditional wood construction with wooden roofs . |
| 30 | It was part of the mystique , or so we thought . |