Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 2 | Werner 's " General " turned out to be the commander of the armed forces in southern Celebes — a figure whom we would normally have done our utmost to avoid , given his political power and our absence of filming permits , but he turned out to be an exuberantly friendly man who never asked for them . |
| 3 | In one of the supporting in-depth interviews , one respondent said : ‘ We have one lawyer whom we contact once a month on average for disputes or land deals and so on and another one who specialises in debt collecting who may be chasing about 20 customers at any one time . |
| 4 | But it was the enemy 's country , an enemy whom we had fought so far as one might fight an armed man in a dark room . |
| 5 | I must admit in the break I we like to do the crossword . |
| 6 | The ‘ grand ’ world view is the presence or absence of a religion which we openly or privately espouse . |
| 7 | You 'll find that the vast majority of competent people in any field of science , culture or management are connected with Civic Forum ; all areas indeed apart from religion which we leave to the church . |
| 8 | Yes i , on , on the side which we believe er matters , if you like , the side that faces the er , the road , and faces the bungalows we we 've sought to achieve that erm , on the rear elevations it 's perhaps a less important issue so looking at any of the erm large coloured elevated sheets the upper drawing represents the street side , the side that faces the bungalows and the side where scale issue becomes er , more important and the lower drawing erm where there 's er an eaves and gutter above the first is are actually the the back garden side that erm will be seen perhaps less . |
| 9 | that clashes with the erm with the football which we 're trying to avoid . |
| 10 | As carpet imports are minimal in our market segment , we are optimistic and are maintaining the substantially increased promotion investment which we consider vital for the Group 's future . |
| 11 | In an interview contemporary with the novel , Brooke-Rose explains that ‘ Amalgamemnon is in fact about the violence which we all commit when we 're always trying to amalgamate people and put them in a category ’ ( 1984b ) , but the novel also turns this strategy back on itself and uses ‘ amalgamation ’ to shatter categories . |
| 12 | There was not a poet 's emotion which we did not heartily believe ourselves to share , evoked by the poem but not imitated from it . |
| 13 | The answer to the question lies with that strange emotion which we call ‘ love ’ . |
| 14 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 15 | There are many facts about the remote past and the remote future which we shall have no means ever of recognizing or verifying . |
| 16 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |
| 17 | You will then complain about everything in sight — including the wind which we have difficulty controlling . |
| 18 | They both took up together , ‘ We give Thee thanks , O Almighty God , for all Thy bounty which we have received through Christ Our Lord who liveth and reigneth world without end , amen . ’ |
| 19 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 20 | He 's an archetypal nice bloke who is the first to get his round in at the Blighty Bar , an after-hours drinking club which we establish on the steps of the hotel after we discover that Tokyo shuts at 10.30 . |
| 21 | Er we 're going to continue our focus sponsorship on and corporate hospitality er we 're going to set up er a chairman and chief executives ' club which we er , we have now done being and that it 's the chief executives ' club , it 's their club , we facilitated , have er four or so er lunches er a year and a launch lunch for example we have as a keynote speaker . |
| 22 | The car which we had ordered to take us to the station never appeared , and we travelled instead in a dilapidated tonga . |
| 23 | Accompanying this article was a photograph which we realise now should not have been published , as it did not bear any connection to the article . |
| 24 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 25 | We can allow for this effect by dropping the two from the strength equation which we have just derived , bearing in mind that we are in no position to quibble about exact values . |
| 26 | There is , therefore , none of the fitful air of discontinuity about the Schrödinger equation which we have come to associate with the quantum world . |
| 27 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 28 | Dieting may not be high on your enjoyment list , but we 've made pleasure a priority in Slim Plan — GH 's unique three-part diet programme which we 're launching in this issue ( page 82 ) . |
| 29 | Our fixed debt is accounted for by our quoted sterling bonds and er , the balance of a medium tone note programme which we have outstanding in the United States . |
| 30 | Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future . |