Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] we [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffice to say we spent two fruitless days at Glastonbury and left as we came with only two scraps of information : first , Hopkins had been a monk at the abbey , and secondly had discovered his famous riddle there . |
| 2 | I find it very helpful because we deal with immediate problems . |
| 3 | On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if |
| 4 | The novelty of such a situation will be more apparent if we compare with it what can be called the classical situation of the ancient world between 600 and 300 B.C. It has become a commonplace , after Karl Jaspers ' Vom Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte — the first original book on history to appear in post-war Germany in 1949 — to speak of the Achsenzeit , of the axial age , which included the China of Confucius and Lao-Tse , the India of Buddha , the Iran of Zoroaster , the Palestine of the Prophets and the Greece of the philosophers , the tragedians and the historians . |
| 5 | Perhaps this is not surprising if we agree with the English philosopher , Thomas Hobbes , who argued that the pursuit of power is part of human nature . |
| 6 | ‘ We are dead if we stay with VSEL , the whole town will go down the plughole . ’ |
| 7 | The guiding principle is that our minds are more active when we view with a purpose . |
| 8 | Right , yes it 's quite often aggressive people passive people who like maybe having passive people around and just needs somebody to walk over to shout at and behaving in an aggressive way , so maybe we have to go aggressive when we deal with an aggressive person . |