Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . |
| 2 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 3 | Because in fact if we 're holding far too much stock we ought to do something about reducing it because it 's all |
| 4 | Since all mammals evolved from a common ancestral stock we would expect their brains and bodies to have large numbers of common features which could be the basis of a reasonable level of extrapolation ( Sarnat and Netsky 1981 ) . |
| 5 | I would have thought they 've simply , it had to be agreed that that was stopped and then as the professor has said , I mean we give all the aid we can to turn their erm military er industry into erm , what was it , instead of guns . |
| 6 | ‘ If we retrace our steps we might make it . |
| 7 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 8 | And as with Rembrandt we can watch his face and figure change , in countless paintings , prints and drawings , from that of a young to that of an old man . |
| 9 | In future we could extend their kind of insurance benefit to people who are divorced , separated or unmarried and looking after children . |
| 10 | They wo n't love , let's , let's , let's get it over with see what 's happening before we start jumping the gun , throws in if there 's any good we 'll have them |
| 11 | If it 's any good we 'll nick it and make a fortune , and if it ai n't … we 'll call you . |
| 12 | If the image represents a still photograph we can frame it by using an overhead projector as a light source , as if the image is a photographic transparency . |
| 13 | Before we take on staff and work out our programme we must elucidate what seem to be the key concepts in my instructions to date : ‘ pitch ’ , ‘ goal ’ , and ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 14 | Scott ( RH ) : If it 's a radio programme we can put anything on it . |
| 15 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 16 | As tests were being carried out yesterday a safety official said : ‘ If there 's a fault we 'll have it taken off the shelves . ’ |
| 17 | Did you say he was in North Africa ? if we ca n't do anything about his legs we 'll give him a new head when he gets back . |
| 18 | There is an up front awareness of an exchange — if you provide us with typewriters we will place your company logo on our notepaper for a year . |
| 19 | So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er |
| 20 | AS Bill Wyman has made noises about quitting the Rolling Stones , Ron Wood threatens : ‘ If he 's not in the studio when we start on a new album we 'll replace him with a woman . ’ |
| 21 | tights we 'll call them they stretch out . |
| 22 | When harmonizing a piece we must decide what kind of horizontal spread we would like in the harmonic atmosphere . |
| 23 | Ladies and gentlemen we would like our erm motion voted on separately . |
| 24 | In another language where mother 's brothers and father 's brothers are referred to by different words we would see them as different kinds of relatives . |
| 25 | All all these Oxford undergraduates if you do n't go home and learn your words we 'll let we 'll make you listen to Chris again . |
| 26 | In other words we should expect there to be a one to one inverse relationship , probably non-linear , of the form where and , probably , . |
| 27 | In this and the following chapter we shall examine their basic workings as institutions in their own right , and in chapter 16 we shall examine their interaction . |
| 28 | As we have said , later on in the chapter we shall consider what might determine the extent to which the observation that the price in your market is higher than you were originally expecting leads you to raise your expectation of what the average price level is . |
| 29 | Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership . |
| 30 | In this chapter we will examine what these statistics show and discuss the extent to which they provide an accurate picture of the range and extent of criminal behaviour . |