Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they do not question traditional psychology 's male-identified emphasis on , for example , objectivity and success : ‘ We are both feminists … and although we have tried to be objective about the value-laden topics discussed in this book , we know we can not have succeeded entirely ’ ( 1974 : 12–13 , my emphasis ) . |
| 2 | Life is brief , and the removal of a long-tolerated equally with a long-loved landmark alters and injures the world in which we have been happier than we have deserved to be . |
| 3 | And er so er er I said to my friend , like me pals I said , Well look we we have n't been in the Army a year , so we 've got to be in two more years before it comes our turn our turn to be demobilized , so we just might as well sign up for a couple year , get two months leave and twenty quid , because we shall do that if we do n't . |
| 4 | Okay , so if you can give me some suggestions that might , might actually improve , cos we 've got to be seriously thinking that she 's fifty six , this is the other key to it . |
| 5 | If we wish to continue to be a force in the field of movement and exercise then we each have to move with the times , and adopt a streamlined , professional and positive approach to all areas of the Medau Society 's work . |
| 6 | But if we did appear to be reasonably well … well then , what is there to concern ourselves about ? |
| 7 | What , alright , wait a minute , just let me finish , get it sorted out , why was buying a suite when we 've got to be stripping down wallpaper and getting dust everywhere and sand and dirt and Christ knows what , just to get it all shitted up |
| 8 | When we had to play at being soldiers in the Cadet Force , Oliver was always Excused Boots . |
| 9 | Erm , but I did n't prime the previous speaker who spoke so nicely er , about N C V O even though we do seem to be in a mutual admiration society . |
| 10 | It is as we know going to be grandly opening , it has cost more than we anticipated as Bill 's probably said , we found out we had to put the foundations on a raft , because er , |
| 11 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |