Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] we [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out . |
| 2 | We had real cowboys teaching us how to use a gun although I 've never felt the need to carry a gun um , I felt like a five year old with a pistol . |
| 3 | Alarm clocks waking us up in the middle of the night ; absenteeism at an all-time high during the day games ; the thrill of success and the despair of defeat for the national team — they were new experiences to many . |
| 4 | I make no apologies for concentrating on issues which in environmental terms could be considered as being relatively minor compared with some of the major problems facing us today . |
| 5 | This course is designed to provide a solid grounding in Philosophy as a central part of our cultural heritage , as a highly-developed academic discipline with its own distinctive concepts and methods , and as an activity which attempts to deal with fundamental aspects of the theoretical and practical problems facing us today . |
| 6 | " My conviction , " says Gorbachev , " is that the state of the environment should have absolute priority above all the other problems facing us today . |
| 7 | ‘ Agitprop can sometimes be effective , but the problems facing us today are so wide that the only way to engage people and pose dilemmas is to key into matters which are universal . |
| 8 | One way of getting a clear perspective on those crimes and criminals causing us most harm , injury , and deprivation is to excavate unreported , unrecorded , and non-prosecuted crimes . |
| 9 | After lunch I went for a walk in the little market town , now being hardened to being a subject of great curiosity , with people gaping at the sides of the road , and children following us up and down the street . |
| 10 | We 're very happy to be here and we 're particularly pleased for you people from Parham , Framlingham , Ipswich and other locations joining us today and I would be negligent in not mentioning the fact that we have representatives here from the existing Three-Ninetieth strategic missile located in Tucsan , Arizona . |
| 11 | They were cleaned of frozen mud , made ready , and we all clambered aboard , Bowyer 's soldiers poling us across . |
| 12 | We only had about six folks watching us though . |