Example sentences of "[verb] we [verb] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says we understand there 's a lot of shrapnel injuries , but there 's also the psychological trauma coming froma war-torn area like that . |
| 2 | His bust , crowned with fresh bay leaves , presides at the side of the stage , and if he is looking down from Valhalla , let us hope he is pleased to be proved wrong . |
| 3 | The housewife who knows that when her electric iron ceases to work she must replace the fuse ( let us say it is a cartridge fuse in a 13-amp plug ) is an empiricist . |
| 4 | The interviewer ( let us say it is a man for ease of being able to say ‘ he ’ and ‘ she ’ in this case , even though most interviewers are women ) will expect to open the conversation and he has the task of explaining to the housewife , simply and briefly : |
| 5 | The counterparty to this forward contract , let us say it is a bank , may for its part be willing to transact because it has a wider , more diversified portfolio than the hedger , within which it can to some extent offset the risky prospect . |
| 6 | Let us say it is worth 60% of Newco. ( 2 ) Newco is worth £1,000 ( ignoring discounts inherent in the cost of unlocking the value of Target from Newco ) so management 's shares in Newco are worth £600 . |
| 7 | Pesh Framjee of Binder Hamlyn 's Charities Unit agrees that fund managers are making a song and dance about the changes , ‘ but let us say there is no smoke without fire and a lot of wet leaves going round ’ . |
| 8 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 9 | Cos I mean we know it 's going up whoever gets in they 're gon na put it up |
| 10 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 11 | I mean , like our cricket club dinner , I mean we have it 's usually between sort of eighty , and a hundred and twenty people , but |
| 12 | ‘ We would urge her to get in touch with her family or the police to let us know she is all right . ’ |
| 13 | Anything you 're up to let us know it 's What 's On B B C Radio Nottingham P O Box two two two in Nottingham Nottingham N G one three H Z to write to er give us a couple of weeks ' notice if you can . |
| 14 | I suppose we say it 's a nightmare — it gets a little bit electrifying to me because Chelsea is the accolade of the world and everyone 's expecting their best at Chelsea and which we attempt to do every year . |
| 15 | ‘ Why , since you allow us to share what is in your sack , did you not allow those others ? ’ |
| 16 | Cadet Diana Grant is not playing the part of a Whitley , but would have us believe she is playing the part of a mountain . |
| 17 | It does appear as if there is an incomplete text of the play surviving : we could sketch in the rest from the analogue in Dame Sirith and the continental analogues reached through that text , but what we have here is sufficiently individual to counsel caution in assuming we know what is missing . |
| 18 | Given the commitment to the arts which is a central feature of Rawlins , I welcome the inclusion of the arts as a foundation element : it strengthens our hand , though why just music and art are specified I do not know , but we can get around that unless SEAC imposes unrealistic demands and arbitrarily forces students into choosing just one specialism for GCSE certification : we must have flexible ( eg modular type ) arrangements to allow us to offer what is best for our students . |
| 19 | I hope you 've found the meeting this evening positive , I 'm sure you have n't heard perhaps if the people found after the this evening and the guy up there reckons we ought to retire , well I do n't think we will retire but I think we will be responding to the things that you raised this evening I happen to think the Harlow theatre I 'm not sure how you measure success , erm I think we measure it 's success in the fact that people actually do use the building , people do come to see the shows . |
| 20 | Well , do we think it 's worth at all , it 's worth while at all going compared with them . |
| 21 | What do we mean what is assertive mean to you ? this is gon na be quite interesting I suspect . |
| 22 | Do we assume there is a shipment ? |
| 23 | How do we know which is for tea and which is n't ? |
| 24 | Do we know she 's not there ? |
| 25 | ‘ How do we know he 's not a mass murderer ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ How do we know he 's honest ? ’ |
| 27 | How do we know it 's stolen ? ’ and warmed to him , grateful that he was willing to defend her , though fearful in case she was asked direct . |
| 28 | So how do we know it 's that Sunday ? |
| 29 | ‘ How do we know it 's not a trap ? ’ |
| 30 | Now a daft question in a way but how do we know it 's Tower Bridge ? |