Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] we [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He did not ant to see us make the same mistake in Iran as it might cost us much more if we did not move now " .
2 Before raising Biggles we had a few failures with baby owls the shocking Barnys had abused .
3 I would not for a moment propose we face the same immediate peril confronting the world in the early 1940s .
4 Few of us would be surprised to find an interviewer on our doorstep asking us to give a few moments of our time " to answer one or two questions " on our voting habits , which TV programmes we watch or which washing powder we use .
5 It is an ‘ Asian path ’ , but of course it would lie along the other half of the great circle had we used the same model for a R N transition , giving an ‘ Americas path ’ .
6 Applying the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour in perfect competition permits us to interpret the same angle as a measure of the real wage rate .
7 In 1958 we had managed , largely through contact at the village pub , to persuade the tenant of the field to the east to allow us to do a little work .
8 No way have we got the same sense of humour as most of the rest of europe : - ) ) )
9 WHATEVER our image of a truant may be — layabout , glue-sniffer , petty criminal — a recent report from the Scottish Office urges us to dispel a few misunderstandings about truancy .
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