Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] we [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we dragged Cpl Edwards out of his seat the back of his head had been blown off — but I still thought he would be OK when we got him to hospital . |
| 2 | Our lives become richer and more free as we give ourselves to God and to of hers . |
| 3 | Research would be impossible if we restricted ourselves to this species . |
| 4 | It is most unlikely , said Taylor , that metal crystals are really as perfect as we suppose them to be when we do sums about their strength . |
| 5 | The numbers are unbelievable until we see them for ourselves . |
| 6 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
| 7 | In ordinary politics , however , we must treat integrity as an independent ideal if we accept it at all , because it can conflict with these other ideals . |
| 8 | Medau Blue featured large when we quizzed you on your views and the National Display Team wore Medau Blue at the last Reunion . |
| 9 | The mathematicians guarantee that all will be well provided we restrict ourselves to operators which satisfy the condition which they call being hermitean . |
| 10 | I do n't say as good as we get it at the Club " — there was still a spark of spirit left in him — " but decidedly good . " |
| 11 | She says the birs are very good — as long as we keep them in families and feed all the young that 's all the parents mind about . |
| 12 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 13 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 14 | The training of nurses to prescribe will be vital if the service is to be as widely available as we want it to be and if it is genuinely to benefit patients . |
| 15 | Fiona 's mother was shocked when we informed her of Paul 's criminal past . |
| 16 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 17 | Well you see you do that minibus want cleaning up , that blue one or was that clean before we put it in the shed ? |
| 18 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 19 | So , having accepted that the 25SE is something other than we expected it to be , let's examine it more closely . |
| 20 | That way they should develop a rounder picture and perhaps some insight into the way simple actions must be patterned before we recognise them as ‘ sensitivity ’ , ‘ passivity ’ or whatever . |
| 21 | Perhaps we should not be too surprised when we find ourselves in the new world of quality primary care . |
| 22 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 23 | Alone in bed I wondered for the first time whether the girl had been truly dead when we threw her into the river . |
| 24 | Bad when we meet someone at the station , but unbearable when we are seeing them off ; not present when we are departing ourselves , but unbearable when arriving in London , if only from a day in Brighton . ’ |