Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] we [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another Orcadian was equally adamant that injustice had been done : ‘ We 're here because we feel it 's very wrong the way the bairns have been uplifted , and they 're being treated quite like criminals really . |
| 2 | Slalom is meant to be fun ; it fails to be so if we take it all too seriously . |
| 3 | A lot I think cos this this bit 's a quarter is n't it and we 'd get that 'd be enough if we cut it into quarters how many quarters would we get ? |
| 4 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 5 | Life , according to metaphysics , is exactly as we want it to be . |
| 6 | Just like salvation , is not because we merit it . |
| 7 | The reason the Royal Show is international is not because we say it is ; it is because the international visitors choose to visit the Royal Show and that is what makes it the most international agricultural show in the world . |
| 8 | And it 's just because we hate it that we 'll beat you . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not that we think it 's wrong to have girl-friends , we just choose not to at the moment . |
| 10 | This then is essentially as we see it , a plan for the recession . |
| 11 | But that was only after we had it for about thirty years or , or more . |
| 12 | ‘ It was over before we knew it , ’ said Taliesin later , ‘ and even if it had not been , I do not think we could have got near to the Lad . ’ |