Example sentences of "we [verb] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments .
2 Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market .
3 Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ?
4 The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK .
5 All we want is for things to go back to normal . ’
6 Now that we do live much longer with better health care generally , what we want is for women to be able to live that last third of their lives in health and being able to enjoy themselves and contribute to the community , not feeling that they 're crippled by pain .
7 The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) .
8 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
9 Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ?
10 but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue
11 er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's
12 Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages .
13 We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’
14 There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks .
15 ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’
16 And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about .
17 The interviews were mostly with women 's magazines , and many of the letters we received were from women , who felt an instinctive sympathy for John and could easily put themselves either in my position or that of John 's mother .
18 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 .
19 The light from the bathroom leaves a rectangle of sense on the floor , but we like being in shadow .
20 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 .
21 Thus we can assert that the kingdom of Cunobelin ( Shakespeare 's Cymbeline ) , whose capital and mint we know was at Camulodonum ( Colchester ) , extended over most of Essex and Hertfordshire .
22 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 ? ’
23 He has written in reference to a property in Hoo , " This is owned by Mr Henry Golding of Upper Halling who we find is of Langridge Manor " .
24 Thus , on the facts of the instant case , goes the argument , the fact that the proceedings against the respondent were postponed until the proceedings against the Murphy brothers were concluded ( despite the fact that such postponement as we find was in practice almost inevitable ) amounts to a breach of Magna Carta chapter 29 .
25 When we are not sure , it is time to make sure — to see if the things which we believe are in fact true .
26 The fastest dissociation that we observe is from TGCA in T 9 GCA 9 , despite the fact that studies using synthetic polynucleotides of the type ( AT ) n GC(AT) n revealed that dissociation from TGCA was slower than from all other sites [ 17 ] .
27 So it 's either setting or not setting the weights and in the N tuple rule all we do is in fact set the weights .
28 It is an important one , because every aspect of the environment in which we live is of interest to us as individuals and is certainly of interest to the people whom we seek to represent .
29 I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent .
30 Never mind what we think is in chromosomes — if babies can learn to talk and listen , then some sort of knowledge must be in there somewhere .
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