Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] we [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
2 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
3 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
4 | Yet these are the same people who are our neighbours , our friends and those who sit beside us in the cinema or at a football ground . |
5 | ‘ Signor Skof , we would like you to come with us to the barracks to answer some questions , ’ one of them said ; and the other : ‘ You will be allowed home this afternoon . ’ |
6 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
7 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
8 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
9 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
10 | ‘ You came with us to the Fleet . ’ |
11 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
12 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
13 | ‘ We shall want you to play for us in the pageant . ’ |
14 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
15 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
16 | In this poem Jnandas addresses God 's messenger , who comes to us in the morning light of our childhood , in the dusk of our day 's end , and in the night 's darkness : |
17 | For the sake of our fans who stood by us through the lean years , I would love to bring it to Cliftonville . ’ |
18 | I 'm introducing Jane , who works with us on the same telephone team with Jack . |
19 | So we do have a problem to address but the I I like Mr would certainly want some explanation from the director of social services if erm the report that we have before us at the planning sub-committee is incorrect because I deal with it said it it be noted that the capacity now exists to arrange for the transfer of residents from four homes to other res residential units as part of the rationalisation programme . |
20 | Probably the Khan will give Nogai some work to do to keep him occupied until we return from Kinsai , but we could just as easily find the whole pack of them travelling with us to the capital . |
21 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
22 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
23 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
24 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
25 | They talk to us on the field — nothing special , just talk . |
26 | The hardest thing I suppose will be to see him play against us during the season . |
27 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
28 | If they used the money that they take from us for the maintenance of the camp we would live like kings . |
29 | ‘ We need the supporters and all I ask is for them to stay with us for the 90 minutes . ’ |
30 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |