Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ['s] [noun sg] [conj] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes ' drive and we were taken into a building . |
| 2 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 3 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
| 4 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 5 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 6 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |