Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People from the stations we visited in such areas , or whom we encountered upon their being transferred to Easton , felt policing there was not typical and that we were obtaining an unrealistic view . |
| 2 | Any one of us may also apprehend an individual whom we know to be , or whom we have reasonable grounds for suspecting to be , guilty of such an offence as long as it has been committed . |
| 3 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 4 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 5 | Erm and I think that it is a very useful exercise to discover which things you know fall below that break even point and which things are therefore if you like internally subsidized or which we do for one reason or another . |
| 6 | None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school . |
| 7 | Our hidden self may be purposely concealed from the outside world , or something we keep from our own waking mind as too unsettling for conscious thought . |
| 8 | Hardly radical ! ) ; or something we feel would suit the preconceptions of the average player ( hence Floyds , humbuckers , big frets etc . |
| 9 | The capped level , or whatever we like to call it , is the criteria that has been established by the Secretary of State , and he has said it is five per cent beyond the standard spending level and he says if Councils spend beyond that then he is liable to introduce his capping legislation and |
| 10 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 11 | or whatever we do n't really have the time , people just say , oh it 's charts . |
| 12 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 13 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 14 | I have to face the Matter as well , you know , and in this case that means that fucking doll or manikin or whatever we call it . |
| 15 | You 've all been and this is really addressed to H O H members , not to erm delegates group or whatever we call ourselves erm everyone 's been to a erm job evaluation H O H A discussion , right ? |
| 16 | If the support for farmers — £2 billion or £3 billion a year or whatever we need — went to finance green premiums , to help the environment or to help less intensive agriculture , the consumer would support it . |
| 17 | As we have said we are a new newsletter team and feel we could print a newsletter containing what we wanted or what we thought ought to be there . |
| 18 | Cu The the other thing we need to discuss are po things that actually erm er I suppose hire or arrangement of music , well the the hiring will be O U P or what we 've already got |
| 19 | What gives this paper its particular importance in a philosophical sense is that it implicitly raises questions about the nature of knowledge in social work — or what we take to be knowledge about social work . |
| 20 | Or what we like , |
| 21 | Elaine , a 16-year-old girl who has spent most of her life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro , in Brazil , puts it better : ‘ I dream of a better world , a world where children and adults are no longer abandoned , tortured and murdered because of who we are or what we do … |
| 22 | Those so denied their cushy jobs will be suitable miffed and less likely to care about slagging us off , or what we do . |
| 23 | By this we do not mean to imply that any old interpretation will do because , clearly , there are standards involved in any inference from the data materials to the theory , be this a substantive sociological theory or what we have referred to as an instrumental theory . |
| 24 | The core social mechanism binding the locality together is ‘ honour ’ , or what we have earlier termed ‘ esteem ’ . |
| 25 | No ball games or what we called drill which was erm P T you call it now . |
| 26 | Egg and bacon on each plate but one and on this one a dried up , curled-up-with-age piece of smoked fillet , or what we called finney haddock . |
| 27 | Or what we see of ourselves in someone else . |
| 28 | It becomes impossible to say which comes first : the attitudes we hold or what we experience . |
| 29 | The songs are of different types , the most important being solo madrigals which Caccini says should be sung with ‘ una certa nobile sprezzatura ’ ( ‘ freedom' or what we understand as ‘ rubato ’ ) . |
| 30 | The justification for introducing a national curriculum is to answer the quite general criticism of our schools , that they are not teaching children what they need to know ( or what we need them to know ) . |