Example sentences of "we adult " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We adults have a sense of history , the present has a context from which we discerningly plan the future , children only have now and the future . |
| 2 | ‘ Children sat mesmerised while we adults sat in a state of suspended disbelief ’ Edinburgh |
| 3 | You must allow that children are small , courageous people who have to deal every day with a multitude of problems , just as we adults do , and that they are unprepared for most things , and what they most yearn for is a bit of truth somewhere . |
| 4 | We adults do the same : we come home from work and start complaining or picking a fight . |
| 5 | There is a different tone at the end of this paper , where Freud writes that our attitude to primitives is like that we ought to take towards children , ‘ … which we adults no longer understand and whose fullness and delicacy of feeling we have in consequence so greatly underestimated ’ . |
| 6 | From the dessert menu , the kids had ‘ superhero sundaes ’ which turned out to be merely ice-cream , while we adults between us tackled American cheesecake which was flavourless , and rather chewy fudge brownies — not recommended for those with dentures . |