Example sentences of "we all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same dilating and contracting principle informs both novels , a first-person narrator who moves between ‘ we all thought ’ and ‘ it was just my hunch ’ , though the swing is greater in The Possessed and its figuration much more complex . |
| 2 | ‘ Allison kept wanting to put these fiddly little bits in and ideas that we all thought were naff , ’ says Charman . |
| 3 | At twelve or so , we all thought marriage was more |
| 4 | He 's done all the work at the scene — all anyone can do — and then he has to cool his heels with the rest of us , waiting for God 's gift to forensic pathology to come screaming up with a police escort and break the news to us that what we all thought was a corpse is — surprise , surprise indeed a corpse , and that we can safely move the body . " |
| 5 | The television nasties we all thought had gone for good are here again and age has n't improved them . |
| 6 | This is the level of consciousness at which we all function during our waking hours . |
| 7 | The one thing we all dread is high winds . |
| 8 | We all mess about when we think that what we have been asked to do is silly or pointless . |
| 9 | Surely we must keep out of that arms process , if we are to maintain our nation 's influence in the peace process that we all hope will succeed . |
| 10 | For this reason culture is difficult to analyse scientifically but we all sense assumptions from it the more closely we become associated with a firm . |
| 11 | ‘ The decline of America is something we all sense . |
| 12 | Their TV adverts , which show contented passengers relaxing on clean , modern , uncrowded and efficient trains , whilst enjoying the attentions of friendly and caring staff , are far from the reality we all experience . |
| 13 | However much we bicker , shout and protest , however much we all doubt and shake knowing heads , the body-counts are never in doubt . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , we all kind of do our part . |
| 15 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 16 | I could if I just pick up one other point about you know , like the the non-standard times , or the non-standard occasions when we do fire evacuations currently er , I do n't know where we think the fire is but we all troop out via our normal fire exits and to our normal assembly ports erm , it maybe men , maybe an idea to do some fire evacuations where we stayed where the fire actually was and people have got to take other other routes to evacuate the building . |
| 17 | ‘ And so , my children , ’ she said , dominating the staff room as inevitably she dominated whenever she chose , ‘ so we all troop along an hour early , as commanded by the Great God Crumwallis , to usher the parents from their Daimlers and along to the glittering scene awaiting them in the Crumwallis quarters . |
| 18 | We all land safely with no real casualties other than the odd jaundiced expression . |
| 19 | To get into the medieval way of things and because it 's cheap , we all camp down in the same room hence this is not a society for the bashful ( light sleepers are advised ear plugs ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Naturally my blessing — are not we all King Edward 's men at heart ! ’ |
| 21 | Are we all slaves ? |
| 22 | Blaming the other is a common phenomenon and we all resort to it at times , whether justified or not . |
| 23 | So we all resort to cliches like , ‘ Even in war , life goes on . ’ |
| 24 | It is they who have shaped the landscapes we all love . |
| 25 | We all love quality so much . |
| 26 | This is what happens when the bedrock of decency , the liberal sensibilities and assumptions which we all share , are all that 's left to be scandalized . |
| 27 | Even though it may be said that what is taken on in the incarnation is a humanity in which we all share , it is still the case that the form in which this universal nature is said to have been taken on is that of a male human being . |
| 28 | The thing we all share is an overwhelming love of the show . |
| 29 | It 's really more to do with the er means rather than the ends , which I think we sh we all share and so i it was actually included more out of of sadness than anger and we tearfully put the word regret , not condemns , but regret really , the way that the campaign has been launched against the Trust . |
| 30 | The difficulty we all share is how can one construct a planning framework which allows for strategically significant inward investment to be accommodated without declaring an open season of speculative proposals from developers and uncertainty at the local level up and down the county . |