Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we talk about plants plants and more plants . |
| 2 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 3 | ‘ No sooner had everyone recovered from the trauma of having to reschedule the full-length play festival than we heard about Portadown . |
| 4 | Man knew more about the landscape of the moon before the first landing than we know about ‘ afterlife ’ . |
| 5 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps you 've been an even naughtier boy than we know about . ’ |
| 7 | How far such resistance is possible varies according to the research methods employed but , generally speaking , we know more about the poor and the powerless than we do about the rich and the powerful . |
| 8 | We know more about social security ‘ scrounging ’ than we do about income tax evasion . |
| 9 | We know more about the poor , who have to fill in forms of all kinds in order to receive benefits , than we do about the rich , who have to declare their tax position only to the taxman , in strict confidence . |
| 10 | The eighties remains an enigma — already we know more about the rise of the radical new Right than we do about the demise of the old Left . |
| 11 | If we could answer these , I feel we should know a lot more than we do about the earliest history of the place and the way it has grown . |
| 12 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 13 | We seem to know more about car maintenance than we do about our own bodies . |
| 14 | The ‘ base communities ’ of Latin America know more than we do about hunger and sickness , but it is study of the Bible that gives them understanding and courage to demand justice in the name of the God of justice . |
| 15 | Unless he knows more than we do about how soon your new longships are coming . ’ |
| 16 | We know much more about the state of Chelsea 's teeth than we do about the state of the nation . |
| 17 | But we know much more about erm Jane Eyre , than we do about Helena |
| 18 | We know more about Milton , his personal concerns and his literary plans than we do about any other poet of his time , and indeed it may be that we have to come right up to the nineteenth century before we learn so much about the inner life of any poet . |
| 19 | And , again no doubt rightly , we need no more have illusions about the motives of those leading the coalition than we did about Stalin , Churchill or Roosevelt — the second world war analogy . |
| 20 | So we got there and he said right okay you 're the press chappy he 's right I 've put your press people over there so while respect Lieutenant Commander that really wo n't do because everything including the Band of the Royal Marines is between them and the Princess Royal so we argued about this and the compromise eventually was that that everybody would have to stay there until the ceremony started and then we could bring the stills photographers round to the end and up to one side where it was all happening mainly to get a picture of his wife cutting the cake . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll talk about anything , ’ he drawls , so we talk about the strangeness of early Big Black — drum machines before they were sexy , lyrics about death , lust and decay ( generally in the same verse ) , and Albini 's acid guitar . |
| 22 | There was some programme she wanted to do , but I could n't do it , so we talked about our holidays . |
| 23 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 24 | , cos we thought about getting a . |
| 25 | It would not be proper to start talking about such matters in their final form until we know about olive oil , sugar and wine and the other products about which there are real issues to be raised . |
| 26 | Here we have something that seems a little paradoxical , until we think about it further . |
| 27 | What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ? |
| 28 | What can we do to make it look like we care about the unemployed ? |
| 29 | But if we asked about the history of the appearance of characters then the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 30 | Well what we see , if we generalize about these , first of all there are international organizations , the U N is an international organization . |