Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] we [verb] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 2 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 3 | What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say |
| 4 | Later reports from the IBM Corp annual meeting in Tampa , Florida on Monday stress the anger of shareholders that we forecast when we mentioned that the meeting was to be held in America 's retirement capital : ‘ IBM stock no longer provides for your old age , but it certainly hastens its arrival , ’ one irate shareholder told Louis Gerstner during the annual meeting ; some 2,300 shareholders , mostly elderly investors and current or former IBM employees , crowded into the Tampa Convention Center for the meeting . |
| 5 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 6 | Are they conventional rules that we learn as we learn , say , table manners ? |
| 7 | So a modern sexual dimorphism is explicable in terms of erm inter-male er conflict and it may be in the case of human beings er most of them are , for example the larger body weight of males that we saw when we looked at sexual dimorphism in human beings is probably explicable erm in terms of inter-male conflict like it is in chimpanzees . |
| 8 | And it 's that , it 's maybe the conditions that we impose before we achieve an alliance or are able to enter into joint activity , that bothers me greatly . |
| 9 | Last week , for example we were looking at the mind boggling distances that we encounter when we journey across the universe . |
| 10 | How do we set about getting the true beliefs that we need if our actions are to succeed in fulfilling our desires ? |