Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] we [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 2 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 3 | But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance . |
| 4 | But anyway we , they must have been so impressed by the , the order that they got , that they gave us the agency for Galashiels and Selkirk for the Austin . |
| 5 | Anyway , so they gave us a bottle of wine . |
| 6 | They had to do the lot so they give us an invoice , we took it in to insurance and they 're gon na write a cheque , deduct it off that thing |
| 7 | They have something like 40 players and they are very competitive and very strong and they caused us a lot of problems . |
| 8 | So we asked council if they could get us a place and they offered us a flat at first over the other side , I do n't know what walk it was on , and they says , You can stay there until we get an house for you . |
| 9 | ‘ And they bring us the tourain . ’ |
| 10 | The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way . |
| 11 | The majority of the people in this town is lovely people , the council and the police are first class and they give us a fair crack of the whip all the way . |
| 12 | And they give us a , like a cheque type thing what you 've got to fill your name and address in back |
| 13 | And I mean the nurses and everybody , the doctors were really great , and they give us the best of treatment there , and I do n't think you 'll speak to anybody that was in the hospital that 'll say anything differently , they were really great . |
| 14 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 15 | ‘ Finally , we went to the office and they gave us a cheque , which bounced . ’ |
| 16 | And they gave us a sheet . |
| 17 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 18 | Mind you , if they give us a manual . |
| 19 | we went in , you know , and that was the place an'all even the carpet that 's twelve hundred pound , cos they showed us the bill , you know er it 's been a it 's dirty and that but you know that wants , wants a good washing you know |
| 20 | signed up and until they give us a firm this is it |
| 21 | But they left us no choice . |
| 22 | In response Kosygin admitted that ‘ they may not be hurting us , but they give us no pleasure either ’ . |
| 23 | But that 's it the system is n't but they send us a donation which they 'd had for appearing on B B C or something . |
| 24 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 25 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 26 | The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was therefore very important , since they give us a Hebrew text of much of the Old Testament about a thousand years older than anything we had before . |
| 27 | And she rang up here when when they offered us the space , she rang up here and asked for me . |
| 28 | Maybe we should listen to our friends when they tell us a few home truths . |
| 29 | Because it 's a national thing I mean it 's something the company is hoping to go forward with the time it 's a government initiative , if we are offering trainee managers when they join us an , an N V Q and they do n't get it at the end of their training . |
| 30 | May they remind us of birthdays and other gift-days as they teach us the secret that all life is meant for celebration and contemplation . |