Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought a French team shirt , and wore it at the Liverpool game where we stuffed them 2–2 . |
| 2 | The contras surged into several of the village streets , where we heard them shouting defiant angry slogans ( ‘ We do n't want your amnesty ! ’ ) . |
| 3 | We take our chances where we find them . |
| 4 | Next we visited a grain processing mill , a hospital where they proudly displayed their own X-ray machine , a chicken-incubating factory , and a fish farm , where we watched them ingeniously catching fish with an enormous net stretched right across the fish-pool . |
| 5 | Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer . |
| 6 | ‘ While it would be a brave man who bought the shares in the current atmosphere ( although we think they are a buy ) , only a fool would sell them . ’ |
| 7 | Sadly , we fell behind early on and never really threatened them after that , although we chased them all the way . |
| 8 | That it might make them think other than we wish them to think ? |
| 9 | We both talk of love but those two were smarter than we took them for . |
| 10 | In the five years between 1982-87 Third World countries as a group , including the most impoverished and crisis-ridden in Africa , sent us $220 billion more than we sent them 3 ( see box ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Games come earlier than we want them to , other times not quickly enough ! ’ |
| 12 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 13 | We face real threats internationally from pollution , over-population , from famine , from nuclear accidents and from the collapse of an unjust world economic order which means we take more money from the poor than we lend them every year . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The wolves need us more than we need them . |
| 15 | Colleagues , colleagues , let me remind you once more , they need us more than we need them . |
| 16 | ‘ Alas , neighbours often know a great deal more than we think they know . |
| 17 | ‘ The public are quicker to shift opinion than we give them credit for . |
| 18 | After all , it 's the care assistants who really know the details , so we like them to pass on that knowledge . ’ |
| 19 | Children under about 14 do n't enjoy long day cruises , so we recommend they join dinghy holidays with good local sailing options ; Porto Heli , Nidri or Cannigione are best . |
| 20 | And then in Scotland we saw some very interesting and original peat walls built by some gardeners there , so we copied them . ’ |
| 21 | We had some extremely hot gear lying around so we asked them if they 'd have a go at getting rid of it for us out of town where it maybe would have cooled down somewhat . |
| 22 | ‘ We both love diaries , so we get them out and discuss what we 'll be doing in February . |
| 23 | We do not want them to be upset , so we keep them away from funerals , or from saying goodbye , face to face , to their relatives and friends . |
| 24 | My mother , having strict ideas about morality , would never allow me to go to balere in the evenings , so we spent them sitting on a wall near our house , usually with other friends . |
| 25 | They they left their own personal belongings and I know from very close friends that those Palestinians who did n't like the invasion they left Kuwait and went back to Jordan , so we hope they come back . |
| 26 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
| 27 | We discovered that we 'd got a lot of unnecessary parts — things that were over-indulgent — so we chucked 'em out . ’ |
| 28 | Our parents would n't believe a word we said , so we took them to see Flupper . |
| 29 | We used to work there from half past twelve till five o'clock at night , taking the bucket out and put another bucket in because the buckets what they used to call the bushes what were connected to the links they used to wear and we used to have to take them , one of them out and used to have a big chain go right the way round and bring the , bring the buckets backwards and they used to loosen up all the , all the pins what used to go through the buckets in the , in the links , so we took them out and then they used to go up to the dock and br they put new bushes in . |
| 30 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |