Example sentences of "[conj] we " in BNC.

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1 Indeed foreigners Germans are now anticipating us & we shall learn from them to understand the production of our own country , always excepting the ornithology . ’
2 Apparently the Chinese are used to living with little heating indoors & we now understand why they wrap themselves up so well , with padded trousers and jackets , as well as caps or enormous fur hats , which they keep on even indoors during the classes .
3 We are disappointed too , on your behalf , but at least the Hertford offer sounds very interesting , & we shall look forward to hearing more about it .
4 That event & 's separation in the same year blighted by retirement … but is now divorced & we 've all brushed ourselves down & picked ourselves up again ! ) )
5 I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow .
6 So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’
7 And I think you find it goes beyond drama school , in say a company like the RSC , where we have the top person in voice but do not have the equal in physical advice and guidance .
8 Formal complaints will be lodged with the Food Minister where we deem it necessary . ’
9 It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough .
10 There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ?
11 A note about effectiveness rates : where we say , for example , that a method is 98% effective — this means that each year , out of every 100 women using the method , 2 will become pregnant .
12 In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ .
13 To take one last example , when we read in Canto 101 ( and many other places ) about ‘ Mont Ségur ’ , the gloss we need is in the Michelin Guide to the pyrenees , where we learn that the Château of Mont Ségur saw the last stand of the Cathars or Albigensians , another heretical movement of the Middle Ages which is mysteriously connected with the quest of the grail .
14 Accordingly , the most instructive gloss on ‘ externality ’ is to be found where we might expect it , in Pound 's 1916 memoir of the sculptor , Gaudier-Brzeska , where he writes of Gaudier and Lewis and other ‘ vorticists ’ , painters , and sculptors :
15 He expresses scepticism about Frankfurt 's boast of being able to fill their stadium for every session : ‘ I do n't think they will get 9,000 every day , but I would have achieved that here , where we have developed an audience for the game .
16 ‘ I simply do n't want the ball put at risk in areas where we are immediately vulnerable to counter-attacks and we must always be giving the opposition something to think about .
17 There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite .
18 Where we asked for marks out of ten , or thermometer ratings out of a hundred , we can use relative scores for different parties to construct measures of preference .
19 Limenas , or Thassos Town where we were staying , is on the north coast opposite the mainland .
20 That day we walked from Glaramara to Castle Crags , where we had an excellent view over Derwent Water before crossing the valley to explore Grange Fell .
21 We were then posted to 406 Sqn RCAF where we converted to Beaufighters .
22 Then we drive down to the drive-in restaurant where we eat lots of crap including a double order of onion rings .
23 First a by now familiar digression via the early modern , where we find rather different conceptions of sameness and sexual difference .
24 Where we got the money to pay for it , I 'm not quite sure .
25 The Central gig was the first one where we were actually allowed to play our own set all the way through .
26 Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined .
27 ‘ If you take Ebbw Vale as an example , where we rendered 2,500 people redundant in a very close community , we got 1,500 people back to work again within eighteen months by the start-up of nineteen companies .
28 Carrying a tent where mountain huts are prolific may seem an unnecessary burden , but it allows total flexibility and we soon discovered the benefits of camping where we chose .
29 At last we had reached a road that led to a place called Ritjemjokk where we telephoned home and did all the civilized things in life ; like sitting on a loo seat , for a long time .
30 There 's a stream where we spend hours sticklebacking .
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