Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 2 | On the motor bike we rode all over the countryside , to Bathampton , Bradford-on-Avon to see the old tithe barn , to Bristol to visit the Llandoger Trow , and as far as Cheltenham Spa , Leamington and Gloucester . |
| 3 | Throughout the entire journey we saw perhaps six tiny fishing villages and one ugly landslide scar whose remarkable story we had all heard various times in Bau-Bau . |
| 4 | Thru reveals that many structuralist theories of narrative are simulacra of the story we have all internalized of the constitution of subjectivity through the reification of women . |
| 5 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 6 | ‘ You may see science as the great God we 've all got to worship , but if we do n't see it that way , and not many do , take it from me , you 'll have nothing to do your worshiping with . |
| 7 | Particularly considering the late night we 'd all had on the Saturday . ’ |
| 8 | But by the end of the first week we had all become Egyptologists . |
| 9 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've come to listen to a very distinguished visitor , Berel Karlinsky , a famous man we 've all heard of . |
| 11 | So that in a sense we have all been clipping , fleaing , and paring . |
| 12 | Similarly Mary Whitehouse was reported as saying : ‘ However wicked he was , he is the product of a society we have all helped to create . ’ |
| 13 | It is a message we have all heard before . |
| 14 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 15 | For one thing we 've all started peeing in the river again . |
| 16 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
| 17 | For good measure , and , presumably in case anybody thinks he is indulging in the negative campaigning we have all been hearing so much about , he praises the Lib Dems as offering a ‘ more egalitarian , democratic and ecologically responsible [ manifesto ] than Labour 's ’ . |
| 18 | Instead of the eight grand pay-out we had all expected , what we got was seventy quid and nowhere to shelter from the rain . |
| 19 | Because such a scenario is plausible the sort of nightmare we 've all contemplated at some time or another this movie makes for far more frightening entertainment than the most graphic of shock horrors . |
| 20 | Because such a scenario is plausible the sort of nightmare we 've all contemplated at some time or another this movie makes for far more frightening entertainment than the most graphic of shock horrors . |