Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] we [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 2 | Legends about the movement of stones arise because , if the stones are alive with energy , this in some way affects our perception so that we feel they are moving . |
| 3 | Yeah , oh we erm , bits of paper with patterns on them , like stain glass windows and the colouring , we colour them in and we stick them together and make a lantern |
| 4 | So presumably he 's actually believing these ideas I mean I would 've thought he , he if he came back and said there 's tension , there 's , you know it was , between the two classes and we go in and we direct them in a certain way , put the right ideas in their mind , that we can harness the revolution . |
| 5 | It appears the Ministry men can have their cake and eat it … but only if we let them . |
| 6 | Only if we put them into their context in the larger narrative , can we see what is going on and feel their full force . |
| 7 | What is important is the discovery that saying these things can actually make us feel better , but only if we say them with sincerity . |
| 8 | So if we change them all into quarters how many quarters would there be in a half ? |
| 9 | Life is rarely easy , and we do not gain anything by holding a grudge against someone , especially if we love them . |
| 10 | They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn . |
| 11 | Afraid the water-table will go down if we flush them all at once ? |
| 12 | One or two pensioners were unable to come along and we wish them well . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is no use whatsoever introducing bait at irregular intervals , for the lesson we are trying to teach them will not sink in if we give them time to forget in between each baiting session . |
| 15 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 16 | We have done so because we think they can do it better than anyone else . |
| 17 | We need to leave them some to swim in before we catch them . |
| 18 | ‘ It might still be a bit premature to suggest that we have made it if we beat Lithuania , but it would then become very close especially as we play them again in Dublin in September . ’ |
| 19 | It stopped only when we told them to leave . |
| 20 | Nor can we fundamentally question the rules of logic , for only when we assume them can we ask a question at all . |
| 21 | They seldom waved or called to us , responding only when we greeted them with a most unEgyptian reserve . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) Even if we restrict our attention to those trajectories in our strange invariant set , we can see that almost all pairs of trajectories started at points close together on the top face of the box B will not remain close together as we follow them around . |
| 23 | There you are , the two together as we have them again . |
| 24 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 25 | ‘ Not if we challenge them in their own sphere . ’ |
| 26 | However , Moore 's claim deserves to be taken seriously by those who think that the objects we perceive exist just as we perceive them when unobserved . |
| 27 | However , even here a discrepancy arises as Mercier shows the keyfronts to be black ( just as we see them on the William Smith ) , whereas in all of the spinets by Hitchcock and in his sole surviving harpsichord at the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , the colour of the keyfronts matches the natural key plates ( i.e. ivory keys always have ivory arcades ) . |
| 28 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
| 29 | But this hardly solves the problem of knowing how to obtain the relevant indices just when we need them . |
| 30 | ‘ Seems that everyone appreciated the joke and took it exactly as we intended them to , even your friend Lewis in the end . ’ |