Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer . |
| 2 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
| 3 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 4 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 5 | It 's what we used to do if we took them off a line and got them cleaning up , it 's a token tow pound ten a day . |
| 6 | George Watson , responding to this proposal , asserted that such topics were inappropriate for a course leading to a degree called " English " , and in any case dismissed both marxism and structuralism as outmoded " intellectual dinosaurs " : " No doubt a university is the place to study discredited intellectual systems ; but we risk derision if we propose them to the exclusion of others . " |
| 7 | They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 10 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
| 11 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 12 | Erm but one of the things that I am doing is over the next quarter with , various people begin to review the cleaning schedules of what they actually do , whether we clean them on a on a more frequent basis rather than just responding that particular area . |
| 13 | Whether we discover them in the landscape or in ourselves , we are imbuing the places concerned with more significance than they would otherwise possess . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Before we turned them off the ladder . ’ |
| 16 | How accurately do the points have to be aligned before we accept them as a ley ? |
| 17 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 18 | When we tell them in the , what we say is that erm that very same person came back as a fox , or you know , that very same person came back as er you know ge goose or whatever animal it might be . |
| 19 | They seldom waved or called to us , responding only when we greeted them with a most unEgyptian reserve . |
| 20 | When we fed them before the winter we gave them proper er fertilizer for things that need acid soil . |
| 21 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 22 | Unless we study villages , hamlets and farmsteads as dynamic , changing , developing entities , we will miss the significance of the form and function of them when we see them at a particular date . |
| 23 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |
| 24 | He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing . |
| 25 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll start with the facts as far as we know them at the moment . ’ |
| 27 | However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 . |
| 28 | A herring gull ( G ) hardly moving a feather as it follows a boat , the long wings are foreshortened dramatically as we view them from the side |
| 29 | When computers , as we understand them in a modern sense , first came into use in the early nineteen-fifties , they were huge , expensive and unreliable . |
| 30 | 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 . |