Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is certainly a difficulty in understanding how Israel can be expected to have known anything from primeval times , when it did not exist , but there is no doubt that we have here a parallelism of increasing precision . |
| 2 | Curiously , while ( 64 ) can only be used as a greeting ( at least in British English ) , ( 65 ) can only be used as a parting : ( 65 ) Good night so that we have here an interaction of time and discourse deixis . |
| 3 | It is possible that we have here an attempt to combine hunting and aquatic scenes ( see note 3 ) , but such a suggestion must be tentative . |
| 4 | So you can see that we have quite a mixture of people in terms of our backgrounds professionally . |
| 5 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 6 | He cites some of the outstanding performances in C&P — ‘ and we have quite a number to our credit . |
| 7 | No , we 'll wait for the opportunity outside , if we wait here a month and more . |
| 8 | Okay and if we put perhaps a water tank here and the water 's trying to get out and we 've got these two big pipes , go through one big pipe and one little pipe . |
| 9 | We have as many lovely things here as on the Mountain of Butterflies but we lack only a prophet and the eyes and emotions to see them . |
| 10 | To tell the truth , there ai n't much to do in the garden , but we go quite a lot anyhow . |
| 11 | One official said ‘ Twenty or so forgeries have turned up so far , but we believe quite a number more are in the system . ’ |
| 12 | But erm , you know , it 's , it 's like erm , if you talk about erm , funding per head or funding for the , for the overall spaces , you know , if it 's Mr , he always wants to be funded by the , the mile of roadblock for the population , because we have rather a lot of one to the other , and I think there may be a similar situation with the police . |
| 13 | First , as will be explained in the next chapter , we are not yet sure exactly which theory successfully combines general relativity and quantum mechanics , though we know quite a lot about the form such a theory must have . |