Example sentences of "[pron] be [noun] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as I am President we will continue to lead in support of freedom everywhere , not out of arrogance , and not out of altruism , but for the safety and security of our children . " |
| 2 | When Red and I were kids we had races jumping on ponies in the fields and galloping them round a tree and back without a bridle . |
| 3 | Today , one hundred women discuss some of these decisions and try to identify who 's body and who 's baby we 're talking about in different situations . |
| 4 | Had we been animals we would have hunted co-operatively , bred regularly and protected one another rigorously . |
| 5 | As we are time-travellers we can peer into the future and notice that it is the professional class that will have the last laugh ; for the ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ( as Marx called them ) took over from the gentry . |
| 6 | When we are babies we cry so that our parents will pick us up and cuddle us . |
| 7 | Morland said today : ’ The city fully expects us to survive the bid and we are confidant we will still be drinking Old Speckled Hen Beer on Friday . ’ |
| 8 | When we are children we first experience this use of power by our parents . |
| 9 | Yes , so would you accept that Mary-Jane , that , that people may consciously er think for example oh no we 're , we 're , we 're , we 're students we 're having a revolution and this is new but unconsciously they might be following some deep historical precedent ? |
| 10 | Now that we 're lovers we 're closer still . ’ |
| 11 | We were daitlers we worked on the In the stone , you see ? |
| 12 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 13 | When we were kids we 'd never of dreamt of this would we ? |
| 14 | Er I when we were midwives we used to say that was the way to bring a child up but w when you 'd had your own you sort of bent the rules a little bit more . |
| 15 | When we were children we were told that we would be sent there if we were naughty . |
| 16 | If the fragment of discourse one wished to study was only the part of ( 5 ) beginning , when we were children we used to use this taw , then accounting for the speaker 's mention of the trolley near the end of this fragment would have to be done in terms of the preceding discourse ( i.e. all the first section before the taw is mentioned ) in which the trolley is introduced and characterised . |
| 17 | So , so there 's that , there 's that kind of incentive behind it and , and , and , and that normal yield is , is gon na operate for three years , if there are improvements we 're still gon na keep that the normal yield tax based exactly the same . |
| 18 | If there are discrepancies we 'll bring it to the attention of the home office . |
| 19 | Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief . |
| 20 | There are times we dream you back to being |
| 21 | … If there are problems we must and shall follow the path of peace ’ , although this was sound advice , it was not to the liking of his audience . |
| 22 | They are one in nine hundred similar food outlets in Cotswold District we deal with them all even handedly but where there are problems we have a statutory responsibility to deal with them |
| 23 | In the same way there are qualities we recognise as quintessentially ‘ Polish ’ or ‘ German ’ . |
| 24 | They often go out as individuals , and where there are clubs we either do not hear from them , or their existence is short-lived . |
| 25 | The snows of yesteryear have gone ; but look , there are chains we can not strike off . |
| 26 | There are rules we have to keep . |
| 27 | There are changes we should all make ( if we have not made them already ) that have nothing to do with losing weight but are more to do with equipping ourselves for working at peak performance . |
| 28 | ‘ And there are things we need to talk about , naturally . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There are things we ca n't yet contemplate doing because even if we did we do n't have the processing power to take advantage of them . ’ |
| 30 | Well there are things we can do , er there thing , basically it 's about finding er a way of shifting priorities . |