Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | You 've bitten through a bigger peg than this one I 'm dragging.Tell us what to do . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Those coke ones are yours now , they 're not , they are ones we do n't do without . |
| 18 | They are things we tell our eyes or our muscles and limbs to do : much practised , they probably come more readily , but the body needs constant reminding . |
| 19 | They are things we know about ; God knows what else there is ! ’ |
| 20 | According to pragmatism what we call legal rights are only the servants of the best future : they are instruments we construct for that purpose and have no independent force or ground . |
| 21 | ‘ We do n't know in detail what these would involve , but they are aspects we will be exploring precisely over the next few weeks and months . ’ |
| 22 | They were vocalists us well us dancers . |
| 23 | It 's Mom we 're talking about — not a stranger in a sensational newspaper item — and there are too many unanswered questions about her death — or her disappearance . |
| 24 | no , because the point is that Labour has not changed it 's course , which is recognizing that at the heart of it 's policies we have to show that we know the world has changed , and we 've got a message to women , which is that we know that you are essential in your role in the family , but we know you 're also essential in the economy , |
| 25 | Well , it 's money we would n't get otherwise is n't it ? |
| 26 | So I do n't know I just think it 's an extra little booking that we should n't really turn down cos it 's money we would n't normally get . |
| 27 | Mm it 's Timothy we 've had sitting on that chair . |
| 28 | It 's Arras we 're concerned about . ’ |
| 29 | JP : ‘ Next time it 's releases we 'll give you a credit . ’ |
| 30 | I have indeed , it 's serendipity we 've got to have n't we ? |