Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One cultural tendency feminists must be critical of , and ultimately indeed try to eliminate , is the tendency to impose the categories ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ on every aspect of life , so we see them as natural categories instead of what they are , restrictive and unequal constructs . |
| 2 | Well we decided , decided what we w , what the object was , and then , we got into a position that certain cards so , the cards were split between u , the two of us , so we aimed it in different directions . |
| 3 | We would prefer to go back but if we close it for good it would be far better to have no Timex in Dundee than a Timex with scab labour earning scab wages and working under scab conditions . ’ |
| 4 | If we put them in little bags I think there 's some more in the grass outside . |
| 5 | We oldies can find digging soothing and satisfying , even enjoyable — particularly if we take it in small doses and choose good weather and soil conditions . |
| 6 | ‘ It has the range if we fit it with FAST packs , ’ the Air Force general told Morton Stannard at the Pentagon . |
| 7 | Is it certain that if we divide it in alternative ways , and attach a value to the parts in each case , the sum will always be the same ? |
| 8 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 9 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |
| 10 | let them , let , do you think , let them , let , cos if we leave it to International Secretaire they may still not do it . |
| 11 | Whether they have just arrived in this country , or speak little English or have difficult home circumstances , unless we see them as competent learners we will soon find reasons why they can not learn . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been doing M&A for years but do n't have the same profile as others because we do it for private clients who just want to sell a company or buy one . ’ |
| 13 | Whether we inherit our temperament from one or other of our parents or whether we absorb it from prolonged contact is not certain . |
| 14 | The fact that this is indeed found to be the case powerfully corroborates the theory of development being advanced in these pages and demonstrates that the apparent absence of the latency phenomenon as we know it among primitive people like the Australian aborigines is no proof of the falsity of the idea of latency as such . |
| 15 | The recognition that all men are equal in the sight of God is fundamental to liberty as we know it in modern Western societies . |
| 16 | Blue here corresponds to 1.6 mm , and shows the cloud tops much as we see them at optical wavelengths . |
| 17 | I asked if people like Shitwell , as we called him among other things , would shove me around after the revolution ; whether there 'd be theatre directors at all or whether we 'd all get a turn at telling the others where to stand and what to wear . |