Example sentences of "we and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was good fun , there were eighteen of us , from eight different countries er Americans and Canadians and Australians and New Zealanders and Dutch and Swiss and English and er we had a good time , and then we and went and did mountain biking in Katmandu |
| 2 | let's be good citizens shall we and let everyone through |
| 3 | so is this right ? not , should we try avoiding we and talk about I cos it , if it 's we it might be somebody else you see |
| 4 | ‘ Sing we and chant it ’ is a true balletto , the opening of its second strain practically identical in every part with that of Gastoldi 's ‘ A lieta vita ’ ( which in Germany as early as 1598 was seized in toto and provided with sacred words , ‘ In dir ist Freude ’ ) yet , as Joseph Kerman has pointed out , more sophisticated in its sense of dominant contrast . |
| 5 | Gothic horror does the opposite : it frightens us out of our skin , discomforts us and turns what we think we know into something unreal and daunting . |
| 6 | We 're looking for two couples to come to Australia with us and to act as roving reporters . |
| 7 | But let smaller pictures of God satisfy us and squeeze him out , and we are back on the easier road to cheap grace and nominal faith . |
| 8 | I would be honoured if you sat a while with us and shared the ch ‘ a . ‘ |
| 9 | When our appearance is being changed — in the hairdresser 's , beauty salon or fitting room — there is great vulnerability , and if we ask for assistance we are giving others considerable power to judge us , alter us and witness us stripped of normal dignity . |
| 10 | At its best it satisfies the sense of hubris in all of us and helps us to forget the inevitable contrast between real and ideal , in human love as in every other human impulse . |
| 11 | We start to notice that people look after us and protect us , especially if we 're girls . |
| 12 | ‘ Sirs , ’ she greeted us and stepped forward , a determined expression on her face . |
| 13 | He walked around behind us and stuck the gun in my back . |
| 14 | Miss , let's go down before anyone sees us and unlock it before everyone starts coming on down . |
| 15 | " I expect they thought they would be down here in a moment to indulge in carnal conversation with us and to murder us , " replied Miriam rather cruelly , becoming blunter than ever . |
| 16 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 17 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 18 | The Dennison lad had pulled ahead of us and disappeared round a corner . |
| 19 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |
| 20 | When struck by shyness , we think that other people are very interested in us and evaluating us . |
| 21 | ‘ She made this a wonderful day for us and eased the pain tremendously . ’ |
| 22 | Otherwise , if he escapes now , he can tell the police about us and stay free himself . ’ |
| 23 | Fieldworkers waved to meet us and cursed their barking dogs . |
| 24 | José , the handsome porter , stepped out to greet us and filled the courtyard with his dazzling smile . |
| 25 | In the glow the lazy blue smoke of a cigarette folds in slow waves to vanish in the sepia shadows of the room Everything about us says come here , you , and our fingertips are first to arc between us and hover on cheeks , lips , chin . |
| 26 | The trouble is that the Scottish Education Department disagrees with both of us and insists that religious observance must not only be reinstated but also reinforced . |
| 27 | Tealtaoich said , ‘ You have always been on the side of justice , Trees ; come with us and fight with us and for us , as you have done in the past . ’ |
| 28 | Those who do not stand with us and fight , align themselves with the Enemy and will be annihilated with the forces of Darkness . |
| 29 | The horse 's behaviour may be modified by trying to get it to have confidence in us and to like us ; and by keeping our own aggression under control , so that we do n't arouse the horse 's aggressive instinct . |
| 30 | Wilkerson took the cartons from us and looked me straight in the eye . |