Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In Bali , amongst the community of wise and loving farmer artists where we have our home , such a stunt would be as unbelievable as it would be unnecessary , for when it comes to the supernatural — or human trickery , for that matter — the Balinese are old hands .
2 The truth is that most of us eat ( and drink ) more calories than we think we are eating ( and drinking ) in the course of a day .
3 It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur .
4 And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths .
5 It has always been my intention to call a public meeting for all interested parties once we have something definite to report .
6 I mean , I had Tony to go through and find key words that we knew we were going to need , you know , simple words like the , of , with , a , that sort of thing , that we knew that okay , we would n't use immediately , but we 'd look , ah there that goes there , and use it straight away .
7 Even if it is true that policemen require special protection in the course of their duties because of the proactive roles that we expect them to undertake , it does not follow that the person who assaults them without justification should be marked as having committed what is , in reality , an aggravated form of assault .
8 All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it .
9 ‘ Nigel has a fanatical following of loyal fans and we hope they do n't try to hit our business .
10 And Archie tied one of the ropes to the box of groceries and we pull it across ; and then we tie the other rope to the empty box and he pull it across empty ready to fill it up again .
11 ‘ We 've spent a lot of money increasing and improving the toilets , ’ says Windsor 's Eram Osman , who added : ‘ It does n't matter so much for men — they can always go behind the bushes and we have plenty of those here . ’
12 Our flight was announced over the loud speakers and we made our way through lots of small passages until we were on the plane .
13 But we are looking f for savings to make greater efficiencies and we think we 've found some .
14 We normally try and estimate the full year tax charge and then apply it to six months and we got it wrong .
15 In fact we could be called Grattan Couriers but we call it , we 're called Direct Line .
16 ‘ It 's the record that I always wanted to make , in the sense that the basic backing track was completely based on the way we rehearsed the songs before we recorded them .
17 ‘ We thought , ’ put in Bith , who was feeling a bit bolder now that Goibniu had approved their ideas , ‘ we thought that the lady — that is Reflection 's daughter — might like to see the designs before we put them to the forge , your honour . ’
18 I mean it might take us another two week two months before we get it out .
19 The medics say 6 months before we see him like this again .
20 We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally .
21 ‘ Where were the old heads when we needed them when the chips were down ?
22 We were on the starboard tack , fighting into the trades as we clawed our way out from the Bahamian shoals into the deep waters of the Atlantic .
23 I believe the Chartered Institute of Transport , who launched TRANSAID , and all the sponsors can be well satisfied in the knowledge that the concept continues to fulfil a very valuable role in support of S.C.F. However it is clear that the need for help and guidance with transport management and operations in needy countries is much wider than that which can or should be tackled by S.C.F. Whether this has or should have any implications for the future status and role of TRANSAID is certainly an issue we shall be addressing with our parties as we enter our sixth year .
24 We sang and drummed our way to Al Ain in an explosion of sound which riveted cars as we passed them .
25 These are not violin sonatas as we know them , rather sonatas for piano with violin accompaniment .
26 Whether or not schools as we know them will exist in the future is uncertain but we can be sure that there will be information and that its importance will grow in social and economic terms .
27 It therefore bears scant resemblance to human relationships as we know them .
28 For it is Jesus as he was remembered and his words as we have them which have played the part which they have in western culture .
29 Perching birds use the feet to grip branches as we use our hands .
30 The timetable has been organised in such a way that the divisions in the debate — knives as we call them — fall in places that allow the most time in debate to be given to the most contentious issues .
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