Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 2 | What we have seen in the 1980s is a process by which poverty has been redefined as to do with the ‘ inner city ’ . |
| 3 | On growth , the Labour party ignores the evidence of independent forecasters that , on top of the substantial growth rates that we have achieved in the 1980s , our growth rate will be just as good as the G7 average and faster than Germany 's in the second half of next year . |
| 4 | Like the experiments we have discussed in the two previous sections , these , too , lead to the conclusion that each sentence in discourse is processed clause by clause . |
| 5 | We shall be there thanks to the excellent monetary and economic management that we have enjoyed in the 1980s and will continue to enjoy for the rest of the 1990s under a Conservative Government . |