Example sentences of "we all " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , there is no doubt that we all fly better if we fly regularly and it is a good policy to fly whenever you have the opportunity . |
| 32 | Some we all use occasionally , like medicine prescribed by a doctor or bought from a chemist . |
| 33 | We take the piss out of him , because of this idea that he will be doing ‘ real police work ’ , but we all know that divisional work has higher status for a Chief Supt. than Research , and this is the cause for celebration . |
| 34 | ‘ Never mind , said Jay , we all feel a good deal safer around you . ’ |
| 35 | This class of injury is the most common of all and we all know what a bruise is and how it is caused . |
| 36 | Are we all resolved to finish this day 's work ? ’ |
| 37 | The marriage is the man and the woman wedding each other , that is the common law we all believe in . |
| 38 | We all of us feel your happiness and we have come to celebrate it with you , and with your families . |
| 39 | Maybe the place is too narrow , that we all want to leave it . ’ |
| 40 | And we all feel so much better . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ We all know Godfrey was n't right for you . ’ |
| 42 | In fact , I think that we all get affected by it through prolonged exposure . |
| 43 | Later still again , she was doing her A's , there was Daddy talking to them over the shepherd 's pie about Keir Hardie , and her saying , ‘ Oh gosh I see , yes — ! ’ and Mummy laughing , ‘ Can we all eat and not so much learned talk . |
| 44 | And Niall got up and said , music to my ears , that Erin 's soil was n't green either but we all knew what it meant … |
| 45 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 46 | We all wear mutated versions of the school uniform and platform shoes . |
| 47 | We all know about Agassi and his paintshop clothes , his tinted hair and gold around his neck . |
| 48 | We all collect books in vast numbers , often leaving them unread for year . |
| 49 | We all feared the worst when BR withdrew InterCity services from the Settle & Carlisle . |
| 50 | ‘ Quiet ! ’ said the guide , and we all stood still , listening . |
| 51 | We all realise puppyhood is the most important time in a dog 's life . |
| 52 | We all limp , more or less , was the antihero 's way of putting it , and for him all consciousness was a disease . |
| 53 | We all see with one pair of eyes , Raskolnikov 's , when the visual field narrows upon the back of an old woman 's head , her hair ‘ thick with grease , twisted into a rat's-tail plait and gathered up under what was left of a broken horn comb which stuck out at the nape of her neck ’ . |
| 54 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |
| 55 | His ‘ which we all use ’ is authorially bold . |
| 56 | Actually Marmeladov said ‘ Which we all use ’ . |
| 57 | On second thoughts there is nothing surprising in ‘ which we all use ’ ; how could it be otherwise in a family like the Marmeladov 's ? |
| 58 | The same dilating and contracting principle informs both novels , a first-person narrator who moves between ‘ we all thought ’ and ‘ it was just my hunch ’ , though the swing is greater in The Possessed and its figuration much more complex . |
| 59 | ‘ Our club ’ presumably overlaps while being smaller than ‘ the best circles ’ of this society , whereas the ‘ they ’ of ‘ the whole town ’ is sometimes , but only sometimes , the ‘ we ’ of ‘ our town ’ ; and ‘ our group ’ which springs out of ‘ my ’ special relationship with Stepan Verkhovensky and which gathers round Mrs Stavrogin , Nicholas 's mother and Stepan 's patroness , is different again and again overlapping ; and the ‘ all ’ buried inside the phrase ‘ our ‘ old man ’ — as we all used to call Stepan Trofimovich among ourselves ’ is probably though not certainly synonymous with this ‘ group ’ ; while Dostoevsky delights in sly collective evocations like ‘ civic grief ’ and in parcellings-out like ‘ the poorest expectant mothers of the town ’ , and in fouling the whole snobbish provincial nest with such carefully calculated absurdities as ‘ almost the whole town , that is of course the entire top stratum of our society ’ . |
| 60 | This view is not convincing given that we all have a latent capacity to develop cancer cells through oncogene gene sectors ; exposure to fields might reasonably be supposed to accelerate transmutations . |