Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [that] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 2 | Th the motion 's basically saying that we want to continue er our demands for harmonization of conditions pe irrespective of what peop jobs people do er in terms of negotiating , negotiating agreements . |
| 3 | In one way you feel better knowing that we played well , the other way li ‘ l ol ’ Victor springs to the fore of the mind time and again . |
| 4 | That , part of th , of the issue I think about us , perhaps feeling that we do n't have traditions th is that we we are still rediscovering our own history , and I think a lot of traditions grow out of historical events or historical personages . |
| 5 | But anyway seeing that we got it and all this business and and er eventually they got it , but they did n't get it in nowhere near a a as good as ours and you know . |
| 6 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 7 | I 'm just praying that we win it . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not saying that we pretend it never happened . |
| 9 | Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate . |
| 10 | no , no I 'm not saying that we did , we did evolve |
| 11 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 12 | So all I 'm saying is , if we 're not achieving that we need to go back and look at the way in which we 're operating the fax service , have a chat with erm Phil 's people or Jackie 's peo see if there 's any differences that we can take advantage of . |
| 13 | We do n't you know we 've got clubs still waiting that we signed up last year . |
| 14 | They 're so bloody thick , they 're always saying that we dress like tramps yeah then why do they wear clothes with holes in them ? |
| 15 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 16 | We were all very wary of each other , not really knowing that we wanted , what was possible or even what gay people could do together besides have sex . |
| 17 | By the time we sat down here I thought well considering that we came in by car door to door practically and that when the driving was n't public transport it it 's taken quite a time to get into |
| 18 | It is essential that the quality of the carpet is identified , thereby ensuring that we replace like with like . |
| 19 | Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically . |