Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] we [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 2 | What they would say is that we have to , perhaps we do have to leave things to the individual , but we should leave as little possible to individuals , as little as practically possible so that we should the people involved in making all the important decisions , particularly the carrying out of them that we have to leave to particular appointed individuals . |
| 3 | But there does not seem any necessity for other galaxies to exist , let alone the million million or so of them that we see distributed roughly uniformly throughout the observable universe . |
| 4 | Unless we study villages , hamlets and farmsteads as dynamic , changing , developing entities , we will miss the significance of the form and function of them when we see them at a particular date . |
| 5 | For the three of them as we have them then . |
| 6 | Some of them and we make no bones about this , are delivered undoubtedly to minorities , they 're delivered to small groups of people in the city , to people who are in any care in the community need to be given special consideration . |
| 7 | We will have to be very sure that we know what we 're talking about when we meet them to persuade them that we need their funds more and we can make better use of them and we hope to raise around half of that twenty five million pounds from them . |
| 8 | But as soon as we are tired of them and we have discharged our duties to society each day , we can say to ourselves : ‘ All those things are of the mundane , but I am of the transcendent , and therefore far above them . ’ |
| 9 | But they do come back loads of them and we send them off everywhere into dance into acting into trade shows we 've got a terrific act on here all you people who strive and slave towards making this playhouse work we 're a bloody miracle . |
| 10 | We 've got that techno album of yours and we play it all the time . |
| 11 | Garry has diverted a consignment of sports clothes to a friend of his and we have n't been paid . |
| 12 | Erm , what we have to do is to look at , if you like , the way in which A , we can improve what we do erm , and see if we ca n't get more out of the two of you than we do currently , I 'm sure you 'll enjoy what we 're doing . |
| 13 | Yeah , twenty five says when once the householder has got up and locked the door and you start to stand outside and knock at the door saying sir open to us , but in answer he will say to you , I do not know where you are from , then you will start saying we ate and drank in front of you and we 've taught in our broad ways , but he will speak and say to you , I do not know where you are from , get away from me you are workers of unrighteousness |
| 14 | ‘ We took pictures of her as we do with every baby in special care . |
| 15 | Finally his conscience gets the better of him and we break out the large billy from his sledge and light another fire in the lea of a sledge . |
| 16 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 17 | It 's making a game of it before we go down that matters . |
| 18 | For example , if we are trying to measure poverty , then our definition of poverty will actually produce the amount of it that we find . |
| 19 | There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker |
| 20 | Thirty six so that was one way of working out a tenth of it but we want a fifth . |
| 21 | Well , we need it , the amount of stuff at the moment , and get rid of it when we know what we 're doing with that thing . |
| 22 | I think of it when we make these great generalizations that is |
| 23 | He tore out the early pages and gave me the rest of it and we use it now for our visitors ' signatures . ‘ |
| 24 | Erm so I take I understand your point we are aware of it and we think our campaign will take take er those factors into account . |
| 25 | I think the message is there that er we took a dim view of it and we have now |
| 26 | Whatever may be the case in Russia , we in the degenerate West can switch off the radio or television , or not buy a newspaper , or not read such parts of it as we do not wish to . |
| 27 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 28 | Eating the right kind of food and having a balanced diet is important not only for weight control but for the well-being of skin , hair and every other part of us that we tend to treat in terms of beauty rather than health care . |
| 29 | COUNTESS : [ to PAMELA ] I come to tell you all that has passed between Mr. Belville and myself that you may not think worse of either of us than we deserve . |
| 30 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |