Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun pl] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real choice could be enormous , for the geographical reasons we 've discussed . |
| 2 | Oh , well these are substantial houses and I would imagine that for the six houses we could get twelve families , twelve families housed immediately , they 'd be substantial houses . |
| 3 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 4 | We 're the younger members , except for the real littl'uns we 've got now . ’ |
| 5 | For the other ranks we took over St Michael 's girls ' school which was able to take about seventy men . |
| 6 | In an intra-linguistic description , we will simply state this difference as a structural linguistic fact ( and do the same for the other differences we notice ) and that will be the end of it : dialect A has one structure , and dialect B has another . |
| 7 | This transfer of wealth forms the foundation for the other aspects we discuss here . |
| 8 | Jack and I have known God 's strength and grace for the many tasks we have been involved in as Crossroads staff , and for Jack the difference is that we work a six and sometimes seven day week and we 're open for business outside office hours ! |
| 9 | Or indeed they could be heading for the two peaks we had just thrashed . |
| 10 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 11 | For the stubborn ones we go no more than ten per cent over the value and say the offer stands one month only . |
| 12 | She is not keen on hardbacks : ‘ If it was n't for the literary editors we would n't be publishing in hardback any more — some books we would , but not a lot . ’ |
| 13 | But they said to us on that night ‘ unless we have the full £150,000 for the seven performances we 've done and the eighth which we are about to do we wo n't go on . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Many we thank the sponsors … for the excellent opportunities we have enjoyed ’ |
| 15 | For the same reasons we must regret that Posidonius did not try out on Rome that ethnographical style which makes his Celts live for ever — a model to the French nation for any past and future extravagance . |
| 16 | ‘ 80–20 and 85–15 are the technical names for the different materials we use . |
| 17 | During the following months we started to distribute basic medical material to dispensaries , health centres , and hospitals in a few districts . |
| 18 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 19 | During the four days we spent on Elgon we saw no other people and only one solitary gazelle . |
| 20 | During the two days we have as our base the international visitors lounge . |
| 21 | ‘ Middlesbrough is richly endowed with religious communities and during the coming months we will need to give some careful thought as to how our own diocese can benefit from this moment of Grace for the whole church . ’ |
| 22 | The cut where the wing had been severed was quite clean , and the blood had dried up , so she concluded that the poor bird must have flown through some overhead wires in the vicinity during the severe gales we 'd had the night before . |
| 23 | At the end of the underground man 's tirade ‘ generalhumans ’ appears as the notional creatures we are trying to turn ourselves into because ‘ we feel it 's too much of a burden to be men — men with real bodies , real blood of our own' . |
| 24 | To measure the angle between the two lines we use a protractor . |
| 25 | If we are to admit similarities between the two modes we must not forget differences such as this that remain fundamental . |
| 26 | How will these factors differ as between the organizational forms we are examining ? |
| 27 | If we can not safely generalise even about the two districts we have come to know , still less , of course , can we generalise from East London to the rest of the country . |
| 28 | Having been duly warned about an overseas tour , in time a boat list appeared and all the old sweats started horrific stories about the various places we were destined to go . |
| 29 | Given our current state of knowledge about the dementing diseases we have few alternative options . |
| 30 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |