Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] we [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criteria of sameness and difference offer few ways of separating out peoples once we rise above the level of locality . |
| 2 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 3 | I joined the Frenchmen as we double across the grass . |
| 4 | I suspect that those of us who continue our work as Members of Parliament after the next general election will find our surgeries just as busy with people complaining about the council tax and its anomalies as we have during the past year as a result of the poll tax . |
| 5 | We know much more about the state of Chelsea 's teeth than we do about the state of the nation . |
| 6 | That means that we are locked into issuing fire certificates since we rely on the and it imposes a marked official erm , performance target on us , we ca n't afford to let the numbers of inspections of supported defences drop , so that means that we 've got to find money from elsewhere in the budget . |
| 7 | We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn . |
| 8 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 9 | We can see the problems if we look at the work of William Crookes . |
| 10 | The mortar team are still lobbing their bombs into the enemy positions as we dash across the road and over a five-bar gate , then double along the hedgerow that runs alongside the road . |
| 11 | Ma M M We we had a candidate 's committee last night , I 'm just doing this so you you keep you on your toes until we get to the result , you know . |
| 12 | " Draw the curtains before we turn on the lights , " Seddon said . |
| 13 | We shall discuss the impact of these differences as we proceed through the paper . |
| 14 | The possibility of severe limitations being placed on what fish can be kept by hobbyists when we join with the rest of Europe in 1993 |
| 15 | We can only send flowers if we know of the occasion , either happy or sad . |
| 16 | This claim might not unreasonably be held to cover such examples as we see in the following subject phrases : ( 15 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars the line defective is the one to the outside a dose strong enough would put him out all night In all these cases , prenominal position would also be acceptable and appears to give the same cognitive meaning for the sentence as a whole , hence encouraging us to accept a solution to the first question , above , in terms of " emphasis " or " focus " . |
| 17 | Haavikko 's world seems to be coldly fragile , eerie and wisplike ; there is the sound of other worlds as we stand on the mind 's shore and feel the spume on the windows of the soul . |
| 18 | With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland . |
| 19 | Race 's power to surprise fades as we progress through the 400-odd pages of ‘ raw ’ talk and we arrive at the conclusion more exhausted than enthralled . |
| 20 | Put such facts as we have before the Sheriff and the Merchant Venturers and let them sort it out . ’ |