Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] we [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We thought , ’ put in Bith , who was feeling a bit bolder now that Goibniu had approved their ideas , ‘ we thought that the lady — that is Reflection 's daughter — might like to see the designs before we put them to the forge , your honour . ’ |
| 2 | And even today , what messages are we transmitting to children and their peers when we exclude them from participation in some school activities ? |
| 3 | ‘ Annabel and Clare are going to get the surprise of their lives when we tell them about us ! ’ |
| 4 | The carpet sucked the soles of our shoes as we followed him through a drunken , grasping audience towards a small dressing room to the left of the stage , upon which Tanya was enjoying bananas for dessert . |
| 5 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
| 6 | He thinks that we will never deal intelligently with these questions if we confuse them with questions about what is good in itself . |
| 7 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 8 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 9 | How the spelling of the word changes when we use it in a sentence . |
| 10 | We perceive things as we know them to be , not necessarily as they are . |
| 11 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 12 | We had such great fun collecting the toys because we bought them on days off when we were out on a spree . |
| 13 | And we pre-process the data as I say commonly for all the neurons before we present it to our three neurons . |
| 14 | The structure and patterns of spoken language are distinct from those of writing : it is rare , for example , for a speaker continuously to use complete sentences as we understand them in writing — particularly in a situation where interruption is both accepted and expected . |
| 15 | ‘ So they thought that a lot of the people who could n't go to Knebworth would maybe come to the shows if we did them in London — Earls Court and places like that . |
| 16 | Poverty and dependence are the result of particular systems of social relationships , which means that we can never understand the actions , choices and motives of actors unless we relate them to the position of the actor in the social structure . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been doing M&A for years but do n't have the same profile as others because we do it for private clients who just want to sell a company or buy one . ’ |
| 18 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |