Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | That spend a proper sum of money on we spent a lot more but we do n't District Councils hundred thousand each . |
| 2 | In the Declaration of Arbroath they made their principles splendidly clear : For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in any wise submit to the rule of the English , for it is not for glory alone we fight , for riches , or for honours , but for freedom , which no good man loses but with his life . |
| 3 | I 've got an interesting point that I relate about this job that when I went to see them , about starting this job , they said , Well , they never told me before I got in , they said er , We 've er we 've got no money so we ca n't pay you a very good wage , but er we 'll start you off with five pound a week , that 's all we can afford , well I was earning more than that , during the War , nineteen forty two . |
| 4 | But if the Home Secretary feels that we can have more , er , er , police officers , why does n't he give us the money so we can employ them . |
| 5 | But at the moment we have n't got any money so we ca n't do that . |
| 6 | And when when he gets to know us a bit better we got quite a welcome tonight . |
| 7 | But very often we will overlook safety because we stick any old fuse in we think it works , okay ? |
| 8 | Erm we have n't got anybody here with a beard so we ca n't demonstrate and anyway it would be a dangerous experiment if we did , but supposing you tried to strangle me and I 've got a big beard you know , a kind of Karl Marx style beard well a big beard , er you get your hands round my neck and what can I do ? |
| 9 | A mosquito probably registers about ten or twenty decibels , and this could be very annoying if you were trying to sleep and one was buzzing around you , but in our trade we 're normally talking about a level of perhaps sixty or seventy decibels which is tolerable and the sort of noise perhaps we 're making at the moment . |
| 10 | Write in the Margaret all systems computer so we can all read it . |
| 11 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 12 | It says , you know broadening it out a bit so we can be a bit more specific . |
| 13 | Or is it gon na be turning into something that looks like analysis of oh right so it 's like listen to yep fair enough listen to er a joke and er well I 'll tell you what , can you speak up a bit so we can actually get the conversation on here because the I 'm sure the British National Corpus would be interested . |
| 14 | Not because I could n't have had a holiday only that er we had loads of milk so we had to go and fetch it from the farms and you got ta have somebody to take it out . |
| 15 | I was n't aware of any huge gaps in the programme and that being the case perhaps we could stretch to seven lap races next year . |
| 16 | when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples . |
| 17 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 18 | But I mean the bottom bit obviously we 've got to talk about whether we actually do want |
| 19 | This is three elements out of about nine or ten , now if they could be persuaded that if people phoned us up and said blah blah blah I want to learn this we could say well Telford will let you do this one unit of the course , they learn the one unit of the course , they say right I 'd now like to learn about let's say photography and we find out that Queen Margaret 's College in their course have an element on photography so we point the student in that direction and then they do this hold on a second |
| 20 | I probably , homework , because her daughter was dying or something and she , her daughter was quite seriously ill and taken to hospital , so we just had Miss so we were n't given any homework for that |
| 21 | Okay what we 're going to be doing is estimating a demand function so we can specify the textile consumption as a function of real incomes per capita and also relative prices , alright . |
| 22 | Oh yeah , what you reckon Joy I did it cos we went to see his sister yesterday , cos he 's only got one sister so we go and see her , see her regular and , she 's not all that good is she in health ? |
| 23 | ‘ Once we realised the implications of the Cattle Identification Documents ( CIDS ) necessary to hold the administration of a two-stage payment together we looked hard at a slaughter premium , ’ explained Mr Cowan . |
| 24 | see what 's on this afternoon , I sha n't look up any thing this morning , unless there 's a cookery programme on we both did a lemon |
| 25 | But to historicise this recognition effectively we need to understand that discourses and practices do not arbitrarily emerge from the flux of possibilities ; nor are discourses the only contact with the real ; they have their conditions of existence and their effects in concrete historical , social , economic and ideological situations . |
| 26 | We were all actually on the er same association so we were alright . |
| 27 | So if the lady was on fire , you 'd leave it basically to the Fire Brigade , obviously if you could help the lady , get a ladder up to the window to get her out of the room or something like that , you would do that , you would help in any way you can , but the real experts are the Fire Brigade so we leave all the er real technical stuff to the Fire Brigade . |
| 28 | So we multiply by a hundred on that side so we must multiply by a hundred by a hundred on the other side to keep |
| 29 | So we had to go past this little shed which is right up right up this stupid grass earthy bank right over the side so we could see quickly how to get in . |
| 30 | Once we 've done that perhaps we can sit this particular lay info information on the back of the card so we 're covering |