Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] we [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 2 | All types of sailing boats as well , I know that it 's easy to think of that we 're only dealing in optimists and toppers er but all types of sailing boats and all abilities , both disabled , youngsters and all types of organizations . |
| 3 | The church is trying to do something , but I think having people like this man in a graveyard raises the question of whether we 're actually doing enough . |
| 4 | Some coloured children in this school are getting bad because of the way they get treated , and they make out as if we 're just doing it because we get low examination grades so we start getting bad with the teachers . |
| 5 | as if we 're here only to flesh out its game — to give it form . |
| 6 | You make it sound as if we 're about eighty . |
| 7 | Thus we leave no mark on the ocean , as if we are successfully covering our tracks . |
| 8 | When they see us paddling on the river , they stare at us open-mouthed , as if we are completely insane . |
| 9 | If we did see some figure approaching , or standing in the distance , we would release our tense handclasp , fingers intertwined , and walk apart , puffing idly at our cigarettes or lighting new ones from Pablo 's box of fosforos , as if we were just friends out for a casual stroll . |
| 10 | We constantly come across situations where colleagues treat us as if we were just raising points of sexuality to be difficult , or as a piece of axe-grinding . |
| 11 | It was foolish , even stupid ; it was n't as if we were even contenders for a medal . |
| 12 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |
| 13 | It was unbelievable ; it was as if we were barely acquainted . |
| 14 | Many eastern approaches are passive in that they aim to empty the mind , or help us to reach the stage whereby we become observers of our own thoughts as if we were somehow separate from them . |
| 15 | Some people think that having reasons for faith is an insult to God , as if we were desperately grubbing around for make-shift reasons to believe in him . |
| 16 | You two behaved as if we were still in the sticks . |
| 17 | He must be living in a dream world talking about the traditions and vitality of rural life as if we were still stuck in the Middle Ages . |
| 18 | as if we were still twenty-two |
| 19 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 20 | And possibly Tina and that is off so they 'll just have to struggle on as if we were there and a lot of others were off . |
| 21 | We walked in , and we felt like going , sorry , as if we were like disturbing something . |
| 22 | Yet every leading member of the Government and the Opposition talks as if we were merely bankers . |
| 23 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 24 | And we ourselves will instinctively be perceived as ‘ anti-Christian ’ , as writers engaged in a fully fledged crusade which pits us , as militant adversaries , against the ecclesiastical establishment — as if we were personally bent on toppling the edifice of Christendom ( and so naive as to think such a feat possible ) . |
| 25 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 26 | While the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish , much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project I have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far . |
| 27 | I think we should have a point for because we 're well behaved . |
| 28 | ‘ In that we are alike , neh , Hans ? |
| 29 | Actually , the Friendship Hotel is a vast ghetto of ‘ foreign friends ’ ( as we are conventionally described ) , but a ghetto in a pleasant sense , in that we are highly privileged in comparison with the Chinese . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're a model independent band , in that we 're slightly outside the norm , ’ Mig offers . |