Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 2 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 3 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 4 | It probably matters little where we choose that point as long as it is not at infinity . |
| 5 | Operational matters are for the Governor , but I think it is important to bear in mind that although we know that violence was used in the early stages we have no evidence that anyone now still in the prison is in danger and you 've got to ask yourself in those circumstances whether you should risk injury or even death in storming the prison when as far as we know nobody remaining inside is now in danger . |
| 6 | Although we took little heed of his departure , Ruth and I watched Alec being interviewed on TV when he returned . |
| 7 | Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We have no plans to close it down again although we have that power . ’ |
| 9 | Although we have little opportunity to meet the participants socially , there is very little sense of social barrier , and I wonder what all these western myths about the ‘ inscrutable Chinese ’ mean . |
| 10 | it 's just the surround , although we have more surround , well no not more surround here , but it 's a different layout |
| 11 | Quite how the storm is generated is still something that we 're investigating , although we have some idea of what causes its generation . |
| 12 | Although we consider this dictionary as a respectable edition , the definition of the Gompertz-Makeham law is not correct there . |
| 13 | Although we found some firewood in the woods behind the hut , it was bitterly cold . |
| 14 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
| 15 | It 's the richness of the language — that we know more filth than anybody else . |
| 16 | But it may be that what we do is is as you say that we Does that guidance thing give general broad headings ? |
| 17 | and you know what it was n't one of his objections at all , you know the video that we saw that morning |
| 18 | David ( Narcizo ) always says that we trust this music more than we trust our own bodies . |
| 19 | We shall look at some of them in the next chapter , but before closing this one it might be pertinent to speculate why it was in St. John 's Gospel , of all places , that we get such stress laid on the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 20 | So I would first urge that we get that paper out to us as soon as possible . |
| 21 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 22 | But I do I think that would be very useful but we 've got to make sure that we get this assessment started , so , if we do n't get round to eighth year then that 's tough ! |
| 23 | Besides , it 's not absolutely essential that we get this device before leaving with the bomb — always assuming , of course , that we do leave . |
| 24 | ‘ It is imperative that we get another convoy in , and without the delays this first one experienced . ’ |
| 25 | Come evening time , after half-a-dozen more flickering Trek videos and prior to the conference party , I suggested that we get some wine/beer from the off licence . |
| 26 | We have made it clear that we regard this scheme as flawed since it fails to provide to those who are legally aided that to which the Act entitled them , namely that solicitors they select will be properly remunerated . |
| 27 | I wish to move an amendment which is erm , that we defer any decision on this until the property , the director of property services has made his report to the property sub- committee on the erm , future , stroke to the organisation , which is th , the subject of his next report to property sub- committee . |
| 28 | That we owed each other nothing . ’ |
| 29 | certain of the elements combine so naturally and with so powerful an effect that we pursue that path of combination as a path in its own right and forget about the problem we are trying to solve . |
| 30 | In the morning , Maggie proposes that we smuggle some gear to Crilly . |