Example sentences of "we [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 2 | However , the facilities we private pilots require are provided quite close to Auckland by two very active GA airfields , Ardmore and North Shore . |
| 3 | They 're out for us — we sucker-ass liberals are the target . |
| 4 | I just got a we commercial breaks call you back in a minute do n't go away yet . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | What has he got that we lesser men have not ? ’ |
| 8 | We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were , however , less fortunate . |
| 9 | Those who are out for good times race but we lesser mortals chat and laugh , banter and encourage . |
| 10 | We lesser mortals have to be content with the Lesser Detective . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We so-called liberals are very weak in terms of funding and organisation , ’ said Mr Ho . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We old Indians come to like this England less and less and we return to an imagined India . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But he still liked to use the window , maybe just to maintain the impression that we mere humans were here to serve him . |
| 20 | Why were we such idiots ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ We get around , we part-time teachers . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ At the beginning when the community police saw the names of those on the programme , it was like ‘ You wo n't be able to do anything we these guys ’ . |
| 24 | We three cakes |
| 25 | We three males looked at each other , then meekly trooped to the circular dining table laid out near the window . |
| 26 | WE THREE GREENS We three Greens of Politics are Patten and Porritt and Pearce , we 'll go far Two of us preaching , One of us teaching , how to avoid the car . |
| 27 | WE THREE GREENS We three Greens of Politics are Patten and Porritt and Pearce , we 'll go far Two of us preaching , One of us teaching , how to avoid the car . |
| 28 | Hey right guess how they put We Three Kings , it goes this is how Gary put it on the sheet , he goes We three kings , no is bitter perfume he will die and go in his tomb . |
| 29 | Hey right guess how they put We Three Kings , it goes this is how Gary put it on the sheet , he goes We three kings , no is bitter perfume he will die and go in his tomb . |
| 30 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |