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 ? |