Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , their order given , he took a sip of his very dry sherry and said , ‘ This reminds me of that evening we spent together in Bruges — except that your hair was done differently then , and you wore a deep-pink dress . ’ |
| 2 | Any conversation at that period was bound to touch on the state of the world , and the question of social reform at home ; and the allusion to the New English Weekly , which to some extent we regarded as ‘ our ’ paper , led to some talk of similar minority reviews , including G.K. 's Weekly . |
| 3 | And then if er you want a so solicitor with you on that day we 'll have to come to some arrangement with you privately about the costs . |
| 4 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 5 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 6 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 7 | He was no more blind than you or I. Did n't you recognize him for that man we gave a ride to on the road ? |
| 8 | Now , I appreciate my , there was n't time to overrule really but in this incidence do you wish to speak but if that point can be made so that it for future debate we know it . |
| 9 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 10 | We all have a responsibility not to misuse or abuse anything , be it in any belief we may hold or driving a car . |
| 11 | The point of contact with the fable of disembodied consciousness is that thinking has become Raskolnikov 's work , it has almost become Raskolnikov , and if he did and were nothing but this work we would have the first part of Notes from Underground repeated . |
| 12 | oh what about that place we stayed , we were gon na stay at ? |
| 13 | You say just a comment comment , what about that letter we had ? |
| 14 | What about this woman we 're going to see ? |
| 15 | put the onus back on me now to say what of that stock we want to keep before they throw it away . |
| 16 | At the words ‘ Porto de ’ ciechi e miseri mortali' in the madrigal ‘ O morte , eterno fin ’ Rore writes what in modern terminology we should call a succession of C major , A major , B minor , G major , C major , and G minor chords . |
| 17 | When children nowadays are becoming more responsible to our society , and they see us as one world we have a responsibility to protect ourselves and our world , and that includes the animals in it . |
| 18 | If it were put to us in this way we might be less prone to think of it as imposing a vastly increased burden on the community . |
| 19 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |