Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We do not consider that the judgment in [ Dobson ] requires or allows us to disregard what we have earlier in this judgment sought to extract as the ratio of the decision in [ Morris ] . |
| 2 | We tend to observe what interests or concerns us and not the rest . |
| 3 | The twists and turns of Goldwyn 's life can become tedious , since he was so often fighting the same battles ; and the extent of his involvement in the industry means that Berg continually digresses to enlarge on some aspect of movie history , or introduces us to other personalities as they appear . |
| 4 | We seek explanations when something puzzles or surprises us . |
| 5 | er , I 'd believe in theory we could because the lease provides us or gives us the opportunity to do so , but we would not go against the wishes of the residence |
| 6 | Marco Polo tells his tales in a Genoan prison cell , and a scribe called Rustichello writes some of them down , alters and embellishes others , or treats us to his own tourism of the spirit . |
| 7 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 8 | We 're articulate enough to fool ourselves that we 're nice people , but there 's a strong undercurrent to our thinking that encourages us to view people with a disability as lesser , and until we come to terms with that , we will never have a proper support system . |
| 9 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 10 | No that 's Dorothy , is n't it , the one that goes we were strolling along on moonlight bay , so you could hear the clouds singing you stole my heart moonlight bay . |
| 11 | However , when we are prepared to be guided from within , it is no longer emotional desire that drives us , but the purity and clarity of reason , dictated by the ‘ pure will ’ of our hearts . |
| 12 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 13 | ‘ It is the quest of our ego that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all explore … what am I ? |
| 14 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 15 | He concludes : ‘ I am very sad that a friend can only write to another friend through a third country because of the border that separates us . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There 's a rockier feel to Mother Earth that separates us from a band like the Heavies , ’ comments founding member Bunny . |
| 17 | They did not believe , therefore , as the structuralists do , that structure in literature is a wholly closed system , and that language is a prison-house that shuts us away from reality . |
| 18 | I believe we have more in common than separates us . |
| 19 | As some of the old Orkney words and expressions fall in to disuse , links in the valuable heritage that thurls us to our Viking ancestry are broken . |
| 20 | It is Ego that thinks we should constantly fret about our family and the future , in case God decides we are taking life for granted , and hurls down a bolt of lightning . |
| 21 | Although there are no plans yet to increase their presence in the Gulf , a defence official said last night : ‘ We are ready to deal with anything that confronts us . ’ |
| 22 | The consultation paper and video are designed to mean all things to all men — we can not assume that points we support will be retained . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's the road that joins us and the Prussians . |
| 24 | It 's not the sex mag blues nor the poverty in the caravan nor the midnight tending of newborn lambs that saps us . |
| 25 | And erm with these you changed them both into sixths did n't you could have changed them both into twelfths and it would have work but then we 'll get an answer that needs we would have got sixth twelfths well it still comes to a half . |
| 26 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 27 | Occasionally we read material that causes us to change our view of the world fundamentally , our way of life . |
| 28 | Eros love is the chemistry that causes us to want to make physical contact — it is the butterflies in the tummy , the excitement that rises when we see or hear that special one and we want to say ‘ you flip my switches ’ , or ‘ you float my boat ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Any behaviour that causes us potential damage will be unacceptable . |
| 30 | The high ball in the air at the back is one that causes us problems . |