Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [conj] we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Tylee 's courtesy was unfailing — she was a neatly dressed lady who wore a velvet neckband and her ‘ pince-nez ’ or pinchers as we called them were attached to a thin gold necklet , ready to be placed at the end of her nose when she was searching for something required by her customers . |
| 2 | if we 'd got any young brothers or sisters if we wanted we could take them with us , fine , so I said to me brother Vic who 's three years younger than me |
| 3 | But nobody today would assume that necessarily went along with be better personal health or wellbeing because we know it does n't . |
| 4 | We were working with the council at ten pence and hour so we thought we were going to improve on that a wee bit . |
| 5 | HE has already won novice chases at Cheltenham and Bangor and we hope he will win a few more , although he could n't cope with Barton Bank at Worcester recently . |
| 6 | Some of his characters develop , and change and we follow their progress but others such as Pumblechook do n't change and our first impressions of them will not change . |
| 7 | My brother and I treat them as full brother and sister and we spoil them rotten . |
| 8 | Dave always shaves unless he got up late like so he started whingeing at me and Ann because we got our jeans on . |
| 9 | It may simply be said that what is needed for two events to be cause and effect as we understand them is that the probability of the second , given the first , is higher than the probability of the second , given the absence of the first . |
| 10 | We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally . |
| 11 | He became a key figure in the early 1970s when the public employment service was modernised and Jobcentres as we know them today were first established . |
| 12 | Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) . |
| 13 | It suits us that haste is made slowly and that we have to think and plan before we commit ourselves . |
| 14 | In the first edition of this book we described at length the reactions evoked by the Report , its strengths and weaknesses as we saw them , and the developments that occurred in the year or so following the publication of Circular 11/77 . |
| 15 | We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels . |
| 16 | Hollywood sends back its version of Irish folklore and legend and we buy it with added Technicolor and schmaltz . |
| 17 | It is true that there is a distinction between art as it is used develop mentally in schools and art as we know it in the world , but for most people is n't art what we knew it as in school ? |
| 18 | Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ? |
| 19 | She came out and said he was definitely still in one piece but probably had cramp or pins and needles so we gave him some painkiller . |
| 20 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 21 | It makes up 70–80 per cent of the bodies of all living things — and life as we know it would be impossible without it . |
| 22 | Our best wishes are extended to John and Hilda and we hope he recovers soon . |
| 23 | Each curricular area has a carefully planned programme of work designed to enable pupils to develop at a pace and at a level suited to their age and ability as we feel it is imperative that children experience success in whatever they do . |
| 24 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |
| 25 | Consider too the circumstances of Jane Austen , whose novels breathe such grace and balance that we assume she wrote with no distractions : |