Example sentences of "we [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the facilities we private pilots require are provided quite close to Auckland by two very active GA airfields , Ardmore and North Shore . |
| 2 | They 're out for us — we sucker-ass liberals are the target . |
| 3 | I just got a we commercial breaks call you back in a minute do n't go away yet . |
| 4 | This is the night we British fans also learn whether Woody 's ( Woody Harrelson ) political career takes off , and will find out what Norm ( George Wendt ) loves most in the world . |
| 5 | This is the night we British fans also learn whether Woody 's ( Woody Harrelson ) political career takes off , and will find out what Norm ( George Wendt ) loves most in the world . |
| 6 | What has he got that we lesser men have not ? ’ |
| 7 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
| 8 | Those who are out for good times race but we lesser mortals chat and laugh , banter and encourage . |
| 9 | We lesser mortals have to be content with the Lesser Detective . |
| 10 | The world is a huge and challenging laboratory for your work , and we lesser mortals rely on you for fascinating facts , not to mention fascinating television and radio programmes . |
| 11 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 12 | ‘ We so-called liberals are very weak in terms of funding and organisation , ’ said Mr Ho . |
| 13 | I shall be drawing a considerable sum in a few days but you must know how it is , travelling the country as we old soldiers do … thank you … ten pounds will be quite sufficient … and you must let me spend some more of it in your excellent company … that evening 's entertainment we enjoyed together , Mr Wood , ’ his voice rose in the small hallway and the other guests and servants indoors and out strained noticeably to catch what would surely be the eloquent testimonial of a compliment , ‘ was one of the , shall we say , most boisterous and wise , a rare combination , Mr Landlord , I have spent , whether in London , in Europe or in and out of ships and foreign postings in a long lifetime . |
| 14 | ‘ We old Indians come to like this England less and less and we return to an imagined India . ’ |
| 15 | The Conservative election victory did owe something to Mrs Thatcher 's past efforts ; these efforts included a re-ordering of the social hierarchy , making the poor more down and out , and bringing the lower middle class ( as we old Marxists used to say ) or C2s in class-free speak , within shopping distance of middle class ( B/C1 ) comfort . |
| 16 | You know , and all old people 's things , like when they , when we old pensioners were being er , er knocked about on the erm highways and byways a couple of years back and I went to see the , the local police officer , what did he turn round and say , there all domestic affairs , they did n't want to know , yet the press will print , print these every week . |
| 17 | But we mere mortals need a rod that will give when this happens ; a rod that will absorb the shock the instant a powerful fish pulls against the line . |
| 18 | But he still liked to use the window , maybe just to maintain the impression that we mere humans were here to serve him . |
| 19 | It is a horrifying thought because a good , well trained polisher would have served a seven year apprenticeship and we contemporary furniture-makers can not pretend to get near that knowledge and experience . |
| 20 | ‘ We get around , we part-time teachers . ’ |
| 21 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |
| 22 | Ironically , Bourdieu 's action theory means we human scientists are more constrained by structures than in Lévi-Strauss 's or Althusser 's structuralism . |
| 23 | We human beings ourselves have become a threat to our planet . |
| 24 | Indeed , the beginning of the period is as far removed from the end of it as we human beings are removed from it in history . |
| 25 | Because I do not accept absolute predestination , however , and can not believe that we human beings are simply pawns in some giant chess game being played in the wide blue yonder , I think that it is the person within whom the spirit chooses to dwell who actually makes the right or wrong decisions . |
| 26 | Why is it that we human beings are so curious about everything ? |
| 27 | Why do we human beings love to kill each other ? |
| 28 | We Tory MPs were not so sure . |
| 29 | Ministers are saying , ’ We good fellows will talk together , and we 'll come up with a decision . ’ |
| 30 | He said , ‘ What will we poor priests do when you conquer , against a double invasion and your own new fleet turned against you ? ’ |