Example sentences of "we [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does n't say about time she retired Mm mm ha In our report , headed the burden slaves , on October the thirteenth we mistakenly a picture of Vidalia Oberia in place of Mrs Filamenia Agassi typical Daily Mail ! |
| 2 | We also a member of the Accountants ' Business Network ( ABN ) which exists to circulate details of companies for sale and companies wishing to buy among the major accountancy firms . |
| 3 | ‘ Your father does owe us rather a lot of money , you know , will your cousin meet the obligations ? ’ |
| 4 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 5 | Could she give us just a handful of examples of people who were moved from geriatric beds into the private sector in the early stages of the development of the policy and were given the assurance that she says was publicly given that the Government had no intention of meeting fees , however high ? |
| 6 | Here we are , hale and hearty , neither of us exactly a moron . |
| 7 | ‘ Bobby trains us once a week at the local leisure centre and we 've really progressed this season under his supervision . ’ |
| 8 | At first they came to visit us once a month but then the visits became few and far between . |
| 9 | You 've been with us nearly a year now , and it 's thanks to your work that we 're well on the way to managing the volatility problem at high temperatures . ’ |
| 10 | They sent us nearly a box full of it . |
| 11 | ‘ Why do n't you fix us both a drink while I 'm trying to find the answer to the problem ? ’ he added , stripping off his tie and undoing the top buttons of his shirt . |
| 12 | I gave us both a refill . |
| 13 | Thelma gave us both a refill , shaking her head . |
| 14 | " So am I , Fiddy , so am I. Oh , go and get us both a glass of brandy , woman . |
| 15 | John Heminges of the Queen 's Men taught us both a lot . |
| 16 | ‘ You could save us both a lot of trouble by handing over the papers without any fuss . ’ |
| 17 | wants to see us about a quarter past two |
| 18 | Will you fly to us tomorrow a representative who can lay down principles and answer specific questions . |
| 19 | So it actually comes to us quite a bit smaller than when it 's filled in by them . |
| 20 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |
| 21 | To be able to create different effects by changing plants around is exciting , and it also tends to teach us quite a lot about the relationships in spacing of plants , of different shapes and habits of growth . |
| 22 | Studies of simple brains like that of Aplysia tell us quite a lot . |
| 23 | It certainly lost us quite a lot of Conservative votes . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the very fact that an explanation should have been created at all tells us quite a lot about the way that the human mind works . |
| 25 | This distribution , considered along with within-group variability , tells us quite a lot about the relationship of group scores to individual scores , a matter of some interest to sociolinguists . |
| 26 | i i perhaps in terms of if you think of it in terms of like the employer of the day , Well we 've paid an external trainer to come along , it 's actually costing us quite a lot of money . |
| 27 | Altogether this little girl has cost us quite a lot of money . |
| 28 | Erm and possibly the installation of mini roundabouts at the minor junctions erm would give us quite a lot of benefit . |
| 29 | You know , and you , you then have that sheet , and how much is my time worth , and how much is his time worth , or her time worth , and you can say , you know , these interruptions are actually costing us quite a lot of month . |
| 30 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |