Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [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 | Theyll have to give us the trophy for keeps if we win it again in the next quarter century . |
| 7 | Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Most women artists just like to think of themselves as artists and we 've never made a point of an artist being a woman . |
| 12 | We did the shopping together ; we went out for walks if we felt like it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They told us it was gon na be a land fit fer 'eroes when we got back from France , but they soon changed their tune . |
| 15 | After things that we 've seen in that field . |
| 16 | The real problems which undrained land presents to farmers have justified drainage during periods when we have been short of food . |
| 17 | Ice stakes were also useful for belays and we chose 8mm × 60m ropes for climbing , though in the end we barely used them . |
| 18 | ‘ I would be hesitant about forecasting a recovery for Pentos until we 've heard what the Budget brings in March , ’ commented William Cullum , retail analyst at Panmure Gordon . |
| 19 | As a consequence , the direct relationship between the cost calculation and the fixing of taxes that we have set up here is inapplicable . |
| 20 | Instead , our desires reflect the collection of values that we attach to our humanity . |
| 21 | While I 'm having a look at this just a quick glance through erm there 's the er range of products that we print design publish , we do n't sell them , for our clients . |
| 22 | the range of products that we do . |
| 23 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 24 | Well this is part of a one million er £ er campaign to try and raise money for a lot of projects that we run in eight countries in southern Africa , from Angola to Mozambique , where our , the problems are absolutely horrendous er civil war in Mozambique for example , in Malawi , one in ten of the population are refugees , principally from Mozambiquan civil war , arriving at refugee camps in Bark and absolutely nothing er at all in terms of possessions . |
| 25 | Yeah , but that 's what they said that th the conditions of contracts that we sent , they do n't agree with . |
| 26 | The physical events that activate our sense organs are already imperfect versions of the properties of objects that we wish to know about . |
| 27 | Many of them have a wider spread of activities than we do , making things like glass containers , aluminium cans or paper and board products . |
| 28 | It is to the elaboration of rules that we direct our attention in the next chapter . |
| 29 | The difficulty is I want to try and be helpful erm er er my Right Honourable Friend has , has made a number of conceptions and we have er put down in my name a number of these amendments to the Bill in order to try and meet those very concessions and those the anxieties which your Lordships have have expressed . |
| 30 | After all , we have a good couple of hours before we have to go back . ’ |