Example sentences of "we [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ? |
| 2 | This is perhaps understandable , but it is stretching credulity to expect us to bless it as the highest human freedom . |
| 3 | The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Davies ' letter concluded : ‘ You have asked us to notify you of the potential implications in relation to costs . |
| 5 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 6 | When two sentences are placed together in sequence by a writer who does not want us to consider them as a continuous text , their separateness or disconnectedness must be positively indicated . |
| 7 | He dismissed the service and told us to follow him to the back rooms for counselling . |