Example sentences of "we [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 2 | We been in Cowley nick so many times they keep a special room for us and inside it 's got Eddie and Rich written on the walls — and they do n't bother to clean it off 'cos they know we 'll be back and write it up again … |
| 3 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |
| 4 | The more open we are to God , and the weaker our self-will becomes , the more desire will grow and flourish within us . |
| 5 | The specific role of bishops which is to be exercised in communion with the see of Peter in ensuring the unity and continuity of the faith is vital if we are to hand on the faith of Peter , Gregory and Augustine . |
| 6 | In 1970 President Nixon affirmed ‘ we are for Israel because Israel in our view is the only state in the Mideast which is pro-freedom and an effective opponent to Soviet expansion . ’ |
| 7 | We are not against unions , we are for unions , unions can be very useful not only for their members but also for the management , we recognise that . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell us how bad we are for eating , buying , selling so much , through pictures of starving children or selfish indulgence — this is the style favoured by charities . |
| 9 | WE would like to outline how disgraced we are as Ards fans at our teams recent performances . |
| 10 | and erm I just think that women are so strong and , and another thing that I find er that is very important , is perhaps there 's women here we should look at why there 's only one female prison in Scotland and about fourteen male lot and including young offenders institutions and er , I mean what is it we are as agenda er just less criminally minded , more controlled , more clever , what , you know we should be teaching men . |
| 11 | All of us have an informal way of speaking when we are with friends and in social settings . |
| 12 | We are with Europe , but not of it . |
| 13 | In the words of Winston Churchill , who has been much quoted already in the debate : ’ We are with Europe but not of it . |
| 14 | And yet , though we are as familiar with them as we are with milk or Arsenal 's new mural in front of the North Bank , no-one can ever remember their names ! |
| 15 | Here , here we are with Meredith Davies , these are |
| 16 | Just think how tangled up we are with pigs , how we love to hate ourselves as pigs , and how easy it is to turn a pig into a person . |
| 17 | Establishing trends from the past is of enormous help in determining precisely where we are at present and where we should be going in the future . |
| 18 | We are at present analysing and looking to see if the effects of privatisation will more adversely affect women than men . |
| 19 | We are at present analysing this point by means of in vivo DNaseI footprinting . |
| 20 | We are at present much exercised in considering the possibility that in order to satisfy the CATE criteria , particularly the one which stipulates two years of subject study , our commitment in this area of work may have to be reduced . |
| 21 | We received many letters of congratulations and we are at present compiling the papers for a future publication . |
| 22 | We are at present monitoring the policy as it has been in operation for approximately 18 months . |
| 23 | Erm , we are , we are at present at the moment spending money upgrading facilities for the youths . |
| 24 | minister 's well aware , this is causing considerable concern amongst the small percent of the population in Southend-on-Sea who are interested in European elections because the proposal is that instead of the links with Chelmsford , as we are at present , we 're going to be linked with Thurrock , which of course is something different . |
| 25 | If we are at home at the same time , we are usually both asleep . ’ |
| 26 | It is as if we are at home with God , for his presence and his friendship become a greater reality for us as we grow to know him better . |
| 27 | To put it another way , we are not foreigners in our own language , we are at home in it . |
| 28 | I want to connect this up with something I said earlier : ‘ We are not foreigners in our own language ; we are at home in it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And here we are at home , ’ he observed , almost mockingly , she thought . |
| 30 | But we are at liberty to form our own judgement of the person doing so . |