Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |
| 2 | ‘ We hope the DoH recognises we have been conservative with our bids in the past and will take this and our supporting statement into account as we feel there will be a demand for growth ’ . |
| 3 | do n't even , get the cheaper ones , like we had no trouble with the Memorex did we ? |
| 4 | In the December issue we asked readers what they considered to be their most treasured possessions in the home and whether they preferred to use or admire them . |
| 5 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 6 | Would you let the Campbells think we 're feeble ? |
| 7 | As we listen to the Geiger counters we shall hear a succession of clicks . |
| 8 | Maybe we should call up the McKeans to say we got back safely ; you can ask after Julie … ’ |
| 9 | The Danakil guide we had acquired at Bilen had tried to bolt on the march , so I detailed two soldiers to guard him till dawn . |
| 10 | Though we have no contemporary commentary on the Pergamene works we can hardly go wrong if we choose to see in them a monument to human pain made somehow more tolerable to contemplate because embodied in barbarians . |
| 11 | The Toraja believe we have many layers of spirits , or astral bodies , which at death must detach themselves like the skins of an onion so each may find its proper place . |
| 12 | Stranded in the Kalahari desert we had no water and half a packet of Marie biscuits . |
| 13 | Like many others in my age group ( 72 years ) , I learned about pounds , shillings and pence , yards , feet and inches , gallons , quarts and pints until the EC decided we would be better their way . |
| 14 | Most of the Leeds fans we passed going down the M40 looked a bit unsure of the sight — it 's not every match day you see three guys in Leeds clobber driving a green porsche with their Leeds scarf in the back window . |
| 15 | In the main parts of the Belfast projects we were more concerned with these lower levels of generality , because the findings have consequences for the notion of ‘ speech community ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ When the Khabiri attacked we were powerless against them . |
| 17 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 18 | Sadly , we were too far ahead of the game and , despite the title being ready for a May launch we were forced to hold off because the software was one step behind our hardware ! |
| 19 | For a Sunday treat we took our three girls , Sarah , aged seven , Becky , aged three , and baby Charlotte to the zoo . |
| 20 | Right so when we add those up then we 've just got A squared and how many minus A Bs have we got ? |