Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] we [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we stopped and slowly turned , with our bulging eyes in place , the gang scattered with such blood-curdling screams that we wondered if we had n't overdone it , and felt sufficiently ashamed of ourselves never to use the eyes again . |
| 2 | But the important point to remember is that we do not observe these sociolinguistic patterns directly : it is the speech of individuals in conversational settings that we observe and describe , and it is by analysing a large quantity of spoken language from many speakers that we can then demonstrate the patterns that emerge from our data . |
| 3 | Although a library committee of some sort existed before the project invitation , the head reports that : It was no more than three of four people who were simply monitoring the use of the library and keeping an eye on the books that we needed and the way children used the library . |
| 4 | We then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity . |
| 5 | Some of us also may have pictures that we like but can not use because of lack of space , changing decor or whatever . |
| 6 | In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects . |
| 7 | Erm and the meeting felt that it asks it asks for for views from local parties and we felt that the amount of money |
| 8 | But what I did was , right before we started recording , I purchased a 1969 all-original Marshall 100 watt stack with the original speakers and we used that for most of the record for the rhythm tracks . |
| 9 | If there 's a positive relationship okay I d I mean that was just recapping something I said before so if you got it you 've probably got it down twice now Okay , if you knew that there was a positive relationship between two variables and we said that their score on one of the variables was high then we would expect , although not necessarily , because w it 's not true in every case but it i there 's a general trend , we would expect that their score on the other variable would also be high . |
| 10 | … There appears to be considerable uncertainty about its effects and in particular , about the approach to formula funding adopted by the Government which is thought to threaten job security in schools with high staff costs … the present uncertainties are hardly helping morale in the schools and we hope that the Government at national level and LEAs and headteachers at local . |
| 11 | More ordinarily , they form the stuff of everyday relationships as we blame or criticize others for doing or saying the things we feel inside ourselves . |
| 12 | These are states that we acquire as life 's internal and external pressures take their toll . |
| 13 | They are also happy to accept that it is only because we have these mental states that we behave as we do . |
| 14 | What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say |
| 15 | Later reports from the IBM Corp annual meeting in Tampa , Florida on Monday stress the anger of shareholders that we forecast when we mentioned that the meeting was to be held in America 's retirement capital : ‘ IBM stock no longer provides for your old age , but it certainly hastens its arrival , ’ one irate shareholder told Louis Gerstner during the annual meeting ; some 2,300 shareholders , mostly elderly investors and current or former IBM employees , crowded into the Tampa Convention Center for the meeting . |
| 16 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 17 | The Government 's emphasis is on practical measures , on changes that will work to improve the hours that we sit and the effectiveness of parliamentary procedure . |
| 18 | Are they conventional rules that we learn as we learn , say , table manners ? |
| 19 | After all , saying ‘ please ’ and ‘ thank you ’ , offering a helping hand , giving a seat to an elderly or disabled person , are the outward and visible signs that we feel that other people and their rights matter . |
| 20 | She 's versioned the things that should be versioned and has put out a request to others in the division for copies of any other forms that we use that do n't feature in procedures . |
| 21 | If it could be shown , for instance , that we know sufficient about the deliberation of legislators , political and judicial , to be assured , for instance , that they were better informed than we are then this might be a reason for giving weight to the content of the law in deciding what is morally right or wrong in areas where we felt that we lacked sufficient knowledge . |
| 22 | However , others saw in it greater advantages than we had and were keen to invest . |
| 23 | When the naive inductivist , and many other empiricists , assume that there is something unique given to us in experience that can be interpreted in various ways , they are assuming , without argument and in spite of much evidence to the contrary , some one-to-one correspondence between the images on our retinas and the subjective experiences that we have when seeing . |
| 24 | Yet no sooner is the ball winging towards the uprights than we find that the goal posts are being moved . |
| 25 | Micro- and macroeconomics are intimately linked and , where appropriate , we shall point out the microeconomic foundations of the macroeconomic analyses that we develop and apply . |
| 26 | Trying an idea out on somebody is a very good way of exposing flaws in your argument , and in fact if we look at the present energy debate , so much of it is concerned with interpretation which one would have thought , taking a simple view of science , were just factual matters that we realize that this discussion of science is perhaps more difficult than people would imagine , so there is opportunity in the course to try and help students to become more fluent in scientific discussion , discussion of scientific ideas between themselves , and of their own ideas about science . |
| 27 | There is no need for further tableaux and we see that P1/T2 is optimal for θ up to ⅕ , P1/T3 between ⅕ and 3 and P1/T4 for larger values of θ . |
| 28 | Success came early for Paula who , at 19 , was being flown on modelling assignments to exotic locations all over the world : ‘ But I was alone , with other models and we drank and drank and drank . |
| 29 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 30 | Alan Calladine said : ‘ We are confident that this shop will be a success with its appealing range of gifts , toys and souvenirs and we hope that the people of Ripley and those shopping in Ripley will find it more convenient to make their bookings for the centre 's special services than Butterley Station . ’ |