Example sentences of "[noun] we [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients are entitled to receive accurate information about their treatment and the risks we ask them to take ; they also have a right to withhold consent from such treatment if they feel unhappy about accepting these risks . |
| 2 | They seemed to be doing fine , but just to be on the safe side we gave them another four days to adapt . |
| 3 | In our mind we watch them happen in the future . |
| 4 | ‘ But when we saw the tape we realised they were n't world beaters after all . |
| 5 | Alternatively , perhaps neutrinos are much more elusive than we think , so that they evade with ease the traps we set them . |
| 6 | we use the same words we use them in different in the different area accents but i that 's all it is . |
| 7 | As one explained , ‘ Well , what we try to do is basically to stop young people from getting into trouble , or prevent them , in other words we keep them out of court . |
| 8 | In nine months we get them all back again . |
| 9 | When we fed them before the winter we gave them proper er fertilizer for things that need acid soil . |
| 10 | ‘ No wonder we like them ’ , said a poem of Amis 's once . |
| 11 | No wonder we fear them . |
| 12 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 13 | Or , perhaps , it was in some way due to the directions we gave them ? |
| 14 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 15 | If noises are separated by very short intervals we hear them as a continuous sound . |
| 16 | But , Vinny Samways apart , they lacked the resources to overcome a Forest side , who gradually looked more like the team we know they can be — one which has won this competition in its various forms twice in the past four years . |
| 17 | None of the charges quoted was outrageous , £5–6 per page is pretty much the norm but beware of minimum charges , and as the job we tested them on was non-urgent we could afford to be a little more flexible . |
| 18 | Where we have specific reservations we mention them in the text . |
| 19 | To open the walnuts we placed them on one stone and hammered with another . |
| 20 | He would instruct me in the history of the world while the people of the world walked by , ignoring the salvation we offered them , and the icy wind blew around our ankles . |
| 21 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
| 22 | The moment we put them back in the open spaces where they belong , in the social life they intuitively understand , horses use not only their innate behaviour but also their intelligent adaptability to its fullest . |
| 23 | I think in general by virtue of the fact that we go to great lengths to make sure that people fully understand exactly what they have got I mean we 're not in a in a situation where we want people to think that they 've got something they have n't , which is why we go to the lengths that we do erm to make sure that people are fully aware of what they 've got , and if they 're unhappy with what they 've got then obviously within the fourteen day period we give them the right to cancel . |
| 24 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 25 | In the 1980s and 1990s , there were still remote places , and if there were remote places we found them . |
| 26 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 27 | Given their nature we presume they were actually after the drugs , but that is mere supposition . |
| 28 | In terms of paying commissions we pay them all the following week . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've decided to tell individuals we treat them like institutions , and tell institutions we treat them like individuals . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 've decided to tell individuals we treat them like institutions , and tell institutions we treat them like individuals . ’ |