Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connie said : ‘ It has been a marvellous year for outings and we have been very fortunate with the weather this summer . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , we 're not , erm , we 're just simplifying a very complex situation , and in fact , probably large numbers of genes are , are involved , and they 're , there are probably complex interactions between different sorts of altruism. kin altruism will certainly function within families for reasons that we 've just been looking at , but this will also be a fertile and erm , encouraging er , framework for sibling altruism . |
| 3 | The Touche Ross report had to be completed in a considerable hurry , for reasons that we understand . |
| 4 | About one hundred million years ago , for reasons that we do not understand , the ammonite dynasty began to dwindle . |
| 5 | Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously . |
| 6 | Now erm I think Michael said he would go for decentralization and we know this is what has already started in our Housing Department . |
| 7 | Theyll have to give us the trophy for keeps if we win it again in the next quarter century . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is right about defence and we have no intention of gambling with this country 's defence . |
| 9 | I knew almost nothing about physics but we shared some jokes about the Rome telephone system . |
| 10 | It is through change that we grow and discover ourselves , that we begin to actualise some of the myriad possibilities of our lives . |
| 11 | It is through literature that we grow into a particular kind of awareness of ourselves and — an inseparable corollary — of our manifold relations with each other and all that is not self , without which there is really not much ‘ self ’ to talk about . |
| 12 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 13 | Liza and I had wanted to go into the big shops in New Street and Corporation Street for ages but we 'd never dared to pass the attendant who stood in the doorway ready to shoo small children off . |
| 14 | Well we read about prayer and we know about its power but you know we often do n't avail ourselves off it and yet it 's plainly written . |
| 15 | The same sort of reasoning about conjugation that we used for edges shows that we can use this process to restore all the corners , though we do disturb the edges . |
| 16 | ‘ The business in Stillington has done well for instance but we need to rationalise our presence in others , ’ he said . |
| 17 | But it is worth making the point that for instance if we take a look after eighteen fifteen of , at the wars . |
| 18 | If we did not have certain terms , for instance if we did not have a word ‘ orange ’ as well as a word ‘ yellow ’ , it is easy to imagine that we would not have a concept of the corresponding colours ; indeed the fact that there is nothing natural or necessary about colour terms is proved , as one of Saussure 's successors argued ( Hjelmslev 1961 : 52ff. ) by the fact that different languages divide up the colour spectrum differently . |
| 19 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 20 | ‘ But check her for money before we do anything else . ’ |
| 21 | The holiday is tremendous value for money and we feel New Millennium is doing a wonderful job in providing us with the opportunity to visit these Eastern European countries at such competitive prices . |
| 22 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 23 | Most women artists just like to think of themselves as artists and we 've never made a point of an artist being a woman . |
| 24 | No I find the best thing for snow cos we 've got an eight car driveway so you can imagine how much |
| 25 | We introduce people for friendship and we put women in touch with other women . |
| 26 | Gridelin Rainwater Shampoo normally costs £2.50 for 200ml but we 've got 50 tubs to give way . |
| 27 | In terms of hard cash , we 've applied to the Community Council of Great Britain , and their Rural Action Project , and they 've promised us two thousand pounds as an actual funding , so as and when funding becomes available from councils or from private sector or from our own efforts , they match that pound for pound as we go along . |
| 28 | We learn more about Tamburlaine as we get deeper into the play , and Marlowe carefully disguises the fact that there is more to Tamburlaine than meets the eye . |
| 29 | We did the shopping together ; we went out for walks if we felt like it . |
| 30 | I did have a chin tuck , and the lady who worked on the book with me said , ‘ Now , Elizabeth , you know we 're going to be together for months and we have to be absolutely honest with each other . |