Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our support drives us on , but we drive them on too by our performances . |
| 2 | When they were swanning around looking pretty , our families were working their fingers to the bone for virtually nothing and now Miss High-and-Mighty thinks we should admire them . |
| 3 | Feynman offers us a simple way to see that this happens . |
| 4 | September ICI wins Us Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for the commercial introduction of ‘ Klea ’ 32 . |
| 5 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 6 | Olazabal 's dislike of US Open courses and their preparation is well-known , but he said today : ‘ This course offers us much more hope than in previous years . ’ |
| 7 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 8 | If there are just seven equally probable choices on average at any given point after 2 decision points we will have 72 paths , after 8 , 78 = 5,764,801 paths . |
| 9 | Every day the Canyon humbles us with some new wonder : a 2,000ft sheer wall of red limestone , a golden eagle soaring down to the river to fish , a natural rock amphitheatre which would comfortably accommodate a full orchestra and 20,000 people . |
| 10 | As we have seen , the removal of a core-electron requires an energy characteristic primarily of the atom concerned , so this technique offers us the ability to identify the constituent atoms of any sample . |
| 11 | I know Cora-Beth wants us to get engaged and now Madeleine 's turned me down , she 'll expect me to propose . |
| 12 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |
| 13 | As the Gospel narrative unfolds we are quickly made aware that the good news signifies more than rescue from divine wrath . |
| 14 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |
| 15 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 16 | The mistress wants us to look for her tomorrow . |
| 17 | This same recipe provides an instructive example of the way in which Dr de Pomiane thinks we should go to work improving a primitive dish to our own taste while preserving its character intact . |
| 18 | Through Bair 's memorable and at times troubling portrait , de Beauvoir confronts us once again . |
| 19 | ‘ Tagan thinks we are being followed . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We believe that Power Fluidics offers us a unique opportunity , and we are delighted to be at the forefront of the application of this technology . |
| 21 | You can say religion forbids us to show our legs . |
| 22 | ‘ My dear Ali , ’ he was saying , ‘ our religion forbids us to eat pigs . |
| 23 | This schematic way of thinking channels us into an obscurantist cul-de-sac instead of regenerating our culture . |
| 24 | If , on the other hand , we take a functional definition , perhaps like the one that Durkheim offers us , then we might call ideologies such as Marxism or Nationalism religions . |
| 25 | This call from the black side equips us with a challenge to put to the whites . |
| 26 | In summary , the sociological perspective outlined earlier in this chapter orientates us towards examining the social construction of ideas about child abuse . |
| 27 | ( Our Political Editor Peter Hayes joins us now live from Torquay : ) |
| 28 | ‘ Woolley wants us to kill the observers , ’ Killion said . |
| 29 | We desire a lot of things that the advertising industry brainwashes us to believe are indispensable . |
| 30 | But one side says we should n't talk about it and the other talks too much . |