Example sentences of "[verb] that we [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend might be interested to know that we sent out a questionnaire to 5,293 people who volunteered for redundancy and 76 per cent . |
| 2 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 3 | She thinks that we have absolutely no understanding of anybody because we were born with a silver spoon in our mouths . |
| 4 | Er can I just respond briefly to Mr 's first point to confirm that we 've absolutely no objection to a more detailed set of criteria being included in the plan than is contained in P P G three . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean that we go back a long way , and yes , there 's a very special relationship between us , but that 's because … ’ another pause , and he raked his fingers through his hair in a helpless , frustrated gesture ‘ … it was her sister I fell in love with all those years ago . ’ |
| 6 | In the coming year , every one of us must raise the level of our performance , enhance our personal skills and ensure that we meet successfully the challenges of the current market and our planned expansion . |
| 7 | He compares war in modern circumstances with a plague , and tries to make us see that we have exactly the same universal common interest in transcending military conflict that we have in getting plague under control , and that it 's necessary to use all our intelligence and imagination to break the millennial connection of intersocial change with war , and then he goes on to make practical proposals . |
| 8 | So you can see that we have quite a mixture of people in terms of our backgrounds professionally . |
| 9 | ‘ Our final position showed that we had quite a bit of initiative and stamina . |
| 10 | Nobody can seriously suggest that we turn back the clock entirely and return to the world of Constable 's Haywain , where there was a good deal of misery and hunger amidst all that beauty . |
| 11 | Can I suggest that we wind up the meeting and er . |
| 12 | That in itself meant that we took over an uncompetitive company . |
| 13 | Assuming that we know how the phonemes of a particular word would be realised when the word was pronounced in isolation , when we find a phoneme realised differently as a result of being near some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word we call this an instance of assimilation . |
| 14 | As Jaggar ( 1983 ) points out , this is not a simple process of incorporating the neglected experience : ‘ a theory may require that we revise even the description of the world on which the theory itself is based ’ ( p. 381 ) . |
| 15 | Can you just check that we took down the following . |
| 16 | It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome . |
| 17 | Pamela suggests that we walk down the Prince of Wales Road to the Aegean Sea . |
| 18 | The fossil history.of earth suggests that we have about a billion years — one ‘ aeon ’ , to use a convenient modern definition — to play with , for this is roughly the time that elapsed between the origin of the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago and the era of the first fossil organisms . |
| 19 | perhaps a way should be found of ensuring that we experience both the ordinariness and the extraordinariness of the glass , he wrote . |
| 20 | Us kids were highly amused at all this , but I was distracted from the fun by Frankie who suggested that we gather up the bottles and hide them in the washhouse before they all got broken . |