Example sentences of "[verb] we [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let us off he said you two are supposed to get a late mark but I 'll let you off this time three and we 've got a detention . |
| 2 | When he gets to know us better we 'll get a hell of a welcome when we go in . |
| 3 | scum won 3–0 last night vs sheff utd away and if west ham beat us tonight they will have an impressive 15 point lead over us … |
| 4 | but does n't that bring us back you see to clause nine , erm , is , is , is that a clause which erm which you 're , you 're suggesting is anti competitive because er agents might compete with er each other as to what if any funds they might want to pull down , or |
| 5 | Come and show us how you do it I 'll give you a red pen Do you remember that earlier we said participation |
| 6 | God made us : he alone can show us how we are designed to behave . |
| 7 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 8 | Really all we 've got is what his sister told us when she came over . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , we ca n't kill her until she 's led us to the book or at least told us where we can find it . ’ |
| 10 | Super scrolls and he told us where you get them . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Carpenter told us why they would not release Michael . ’ |
| 12 | Only if they told us why we were being held , would we co-operate . |
| 13 | ‘ Never told us why you were so interested in old Lady Usk , ma'am . ’ |
| 14 | At Cannington itself the first informal session was so full that the inquiry organizers told us afterwards they were concerned that the balcony might not be able to sustain the weight . |
| 15 | A German tourist we met there , who had come tourist class from Cuzco , told us how she had given money and pens at each stop to the children who crowded the carriage windows . |
| 16 | He told us how he was now ‘ older ’ and had received ‘ Our Father ’ . |
| 17 | He came straight to us at the castle , and told us how he had found the body , and no question but he was greatly shaken and agitated , as well he might be , guilty or innocent . |
| 18 | He also told us how he had nourished the fire of hate inside him , ever since as a child of seven he had been spat upon by a white man . |
| 19 | ‘ He said he was representing nobody but Marie Wilson and he told us how he climbed out of the rubble in Enniskillen five years ago and somehow , through his daughter and his religious convictions , found the courage to say , ‘ Enough is enough , there must be a better way ’ . |
| 20 | He told us how he had been encouraged by the responses received from the agri-food industry ever since he threw out a challenge to it some four months ago . |
| 21 | ‘ He told us how he loved Leanne , but they had nothing in common . |
| 22 | They , they will have to pick us up I 'm afraid , cos our pass is not valued till nine o'clock . |
| 23 | But er even if it did n't work we well it would n't be the end of the line financially for us but at the end of the day I think you know we 've always wanted to know we could go back and do that you know . |
| 24 | You wo n't get a cup of tea , although you might be OK for a Garibaldi if there happens to be one lying around , but you 'll quickly be strapped into the beige and orange sofa , and invited to ‘ Convince us why we should vote for your lot . |
| 25 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 26 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 27 | Given their commitment and dedication , very often they will prove themselves right , as our Fibres people showed us when they decided to change from a bulk to a speciality business , in the face of our scepticism . |
| 28 | With his hands he showed us where he wanted the legs to go . |
| 29 | In this compelling new video , Peters offers six ways to weather a recession and shows us how we can use recession as an opportunity . |
| 30 | Radcliffe-Brown , however , elegantly shows us how we can make sense of all this without invoking the tenuous spectre of an earlier ‘ matriarchal ’ stage which he points out would actually have quite the opposite influence . |