Example sentences of "we [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gather that in general ditches are the responsibility of Southern Water and then in some point it 'll change in but er there are areas in the county er and upon this appears to be one where the ditches adjacent to the highway are the responsibility of the , the Highway Authority , that is the County Surveyor , but it gives you an example of an area in which we responsibility of the public er find it difficult |
| 2 | ‘ We kind of take the acclaim for granted , ’ says Fergal , much to my surprise . |
| 3 | Well exactly , I mean we have , we sort of , we , we kind of anticipated that |
| 4 | Well you know what kids , we kind of laughed at this you know , we did n't take it as serious . |
| 5 | Erm Yeah , and they say that er before we actually erm do a speech convergence for want of a better phrase , erm that we kind of weigh up in our heads , quickly , the rewards and cost of you know alternative courses of action . |
| 6 | The problem is that with the benefit of hindsight , we kind of excused and purged Darwin 's Lamarckism . |
| 7 | Erm , we 'd had a meeting prior to going so we had a fair idea of you know , we kind of got together and shared some thoughts before we , before we went . |
| 8 | Couple of points though about this erm , how the parish council is recognized within the organization because it 's important and that did our day as well and , I suppose in a way it 's the one , one or so positive things out of this that we kind of latch on to , that the communication part is important and erm there may be others that feel the same way that we 're not actually communicating what it is that we 're doing , so , so maybe |
| 9 | There 's another thing what we 'd have all said when we got , you 'd have said it over the years yourself , erm , well just ring in and we 'll give you the price , you know , and if we kind of touch up to contract or flat rate or whatever is the way to get ahead , or you get whatever , ring Linda , or ring Jane and she says right , and we 've said that for years , |
| 10 | Yeah we did well but erm we should n't have like , you learn by your mistakes , but we we kind of made profit and we should n't of done |
| 11 | Have we honey in that dish ? |
| 12 | Yet we hanker after wider experience and a fresh start . |
| 13 | Oh no , we didna like her at all … |
| 14 | Yes it is a set piece that we practice in training . |
| 15 | Are we sovereign in defence , in our dealings with multinational corporations or in any significant matter ? |
| 16 | We pirouette around the old wooden floor for probably 45 seconds , throwing punches a half-foot from each other 's chins and bodies . |
| 17 | If we seem to have got it wrong , we sort it out when we divvy up the profit . ’ |
| 18 | Well when was there that fortnight and it seemed ever so strange when we car with the driver sitting that side and all the traffic coming by the other way , it seemed mad to me cos of just those few weeks , I did n't get time to get |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ says Phil , ‘ do you remember that time when we were undergraduates , and we hitch-hiked to Rome ? ’ |
| 20 | We thenken on his presens her , |
| 21 | Like we council with our daily contacts through college , but |
| 22 | After the gig , we mooch around the band 's dressing room and try to give off an inconspicuous vibe ( a hard one , since we 're the only ones that are n't stoned out of our gourds and do n't have accents that can hack their way through huge mountain ranges ) . |
| 23 | We squeal-turned around the crowd , and zigzagged away from the Temple of Turhan Bey . |
| 24 | Throughout our child 's infancy , we shadow-box with a whole tribe of bogeymen — speeding drivers , viruses and teddy manufacturers who do n't fix the eyes in properly . |
| 25 | I helped her put her bags into the taxi and then we sort of kissed goodbye . |
| 26 | Vern was wandering too , so we sort of got talking . |
| 27 | We sort of gravitated together . |
| 28 | Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff . |
| 29 | Erm you know we sort of seem to limp from one meeting to another without really committing ourselves to anything much . |
| 30 | So we sort of bypassed each other . |