Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 2 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 3 | ‘ He presented this as evidence at our investigation on Thursday and the action we took was as a direct consequence . ’ |
| 4 | The remaining two-thirds of the sucrose we eat is in " hidden " form , as in chocolate , confectionery , biscuits , cakes , soft drinks , and ice-cream . |
| 5 | However , there seems to be more to the formation of a child 's personality at birth than these two viewpoints — that we are either born as a blank sheet or that the formation we have is via our mother , and begins prior to our birth . |
| 6 | This girl we know was in Germany and they were doing a PA and she ran up to Richard Fm and said ‘ I 've come all the way from England to see you ’ — which was a complete lie — and she said , ‘ Can I have a signed photo ? ’ |
| 7 | So effectively we take our input pattern we take our tuple we force is through our function here we get our value out sum value of of the tuple and that 's J and that indicates within the weight array that we 're looking at which weight we actually set . |
| 8 | Of course we 've been in touch by phone but I wanted to see how things were … |
| 9 | The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK . |
| 10 | Another outing we enjoyed was to Mayell 's Chocolate Factory , where for $2 you can tour the factory and eat as many of the products as you want . |
| 11 | Earlier that day we had been in the yard of a house near the front line , among groves of frost-damaged mandarins , where a unit of some 50 Georgians was preparing to ‘ clean ’ a group of Abkhazians ( or Russians , as the Georgians claimed ) from their side of the river . |
| 12 | ‘ The metal we used is from an old caravan roof which we bonded to the wood with Evostick , ’ explained Tony . |
| 13 | Still climbing down the column , the next great limestone development we meet is in the lower part of the Upper Devonian . |
| 14 | Well , the only evidence we have is from the people who believe it has worked for them — and this includes many celebrities . |
| 15 | If the first criticism we read is of Shakespeare ( an Othello casebook , typically ) , then the first contemporary poe we come across is probably Ted ( ‘ a black — /Back gull bent like an iron-bar slowly ’ ) Hughes . |
| 16 | What retrenchment we experienced was from below , which illustrates that working daily with the field-worker was a source of greater sensitivity to ordinary policemen and women than was the idea of research to senior officers . |
| 17 | All this week we 've been on expedition with the British team as they tackle the Camel Trophy through Brazil and Guyana . |
| 18 | ‘ Every time we question users of Teletel , particularly frequent users , the only complaint we hear is of the speed . |
| 19 | ‘ The only race trouble we have is between the Indians and the Pakis , or the Hindus and the Sikhs . ’ |
| 20 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 21 | Opinions vary , however , as to the form of air pollution policies in structure plans , the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for example felt that the only way to control the air we breathe is by indirectly limiting emissions and recommended a system of air quality guidelines for major pollutants which could be adopted by local authorities and incorporated in their structure plans . |
| 22 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 23 | The title of his last book , Possible Worlds , gives a key to the process : that the world we inhabit is by no means the only one , but only one of any number we may care to imagine . |
| 24 | They 've they 've sent , we have a bank account , the first thing we did was to o This is the steering committee . |
| 25 | When it comes to saving lives or building bridges , the last thing we want is for uninformed and inexperienced students to form their own ideas . |
| 26 | The last thing we want is for someone to pop up unmarked and score a goal . |
| 27 | Er the reason want referring because has n't commenced it 's considered er view and the last thing we want is to be in business actually doing is enclosing on St Albans and anything that St Albans does n't actually want . |
| 28 | The shot we require is of an American Trident missile being launched from a submarine and eventually going out of control . |
| 29 | One point five inverse time , fifty six point three is in there , so the answer we want is minus two , one , three one , two , three , , seven , so add that to and I hear one , two , four , . |
| 30 | It 's then we 've got of course and once we 've got it , we 've got ta take on board the implications in relation to what the training we provide is in relation |