Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb base] we " in BNC.

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1 The real world has long left behind the age when old so-and-so could decide ‘ I rather like this slogan ’ or ‘ My constituents think we ought to do such and such ’ without that ‘ feeling ’ being backed up by professional research and experience .
2 Everybody 's got their opinions love we 've got
3 Their executives visit us , and we travel there .
4 Their fates concern us in reality no more than those of other independent states which were never British dominions .
5 The rise of the acronym is perhaps one of the most important , if regrettable , linguistic phenomena of the modern age and their metamorphoses tell us a considerable amount about expert discourses .
6 A more prosaic explanation would be that the derogation of women reflects a reality in which men regard us as inferior and define us above all in terms of our sexual attributes .
7 which ones do we which one do we know ?
8 Then you 'd use it 's what you do is you work out which ones do we know ?
9 Their biographies provide us with access to the professional and class alliances which fed into the politics of mid-Victorian social reform .
10 And although we may concentrate attention on teachers ' socially regulated selves , " their own descriptions of their feelings about pupils , and their relationships with them and with their colleagues remind us that the regressive , passionate and unruly aspects of human nature are always present in the classroom and may sometimes escape from rational control " ( 1989 : 203 ) .
11 But the English mystics and their followers give us the other side of the picture .
12 And , if you dummies let us , we 'll fight World War Three in Europe ’ ( Hinton , 1989 : 183–4 ) .
13 You guys want us to leave ? ’
14 Christopher Middleton ( Why ca n't you women leave us alone ? ,
15 Or screwed up his kids like we were screwed up .
16 I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in .
17 ‘ We can leave Edinburgh quickly and quietly , before Ruthven and his men stop us .
18 His findings remind us again that text difficulty is not a purely static thing — it is the result of the meeting of a reader and a text , and a measure of the extent to which the linguistic and experiential worlds of the reader and author coincide , or fail to coincide .
19 His photographs help us to recognise names and characters .
20 But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy .
21 " What contacts do we have in Ireland ? "
22 What values do we want to underpin social relations and criminal law ?
23 What values do we bring with us ?
24 What books do we need ? ’
25 What models do we have to provide guidelines ?
26 So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ?
27 What alternatives do we then propose ?
28 What changes do we need to make ?
29 I think we 've all got used to , with some products at least , asking questions about how green it is , whether it 's recycled paper , whether it 's going to destroy the ozone layer , as well as asking questions like what price is it , but if we 're going to decide whether one jar of coffee is fair-traded as opposed to another one , what questions do we need to kn know the answers to , to decide that .
30 What questions do we have to answer ?
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