Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] we [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And no one wants to let us near it . ’ |
| 2 | He revealed : ‘ A taxi driver gave us his card today and promised to take us anywhere we wanted to go if the club survived . |
| 3 | We have also asked schools to try to tell us how they think they are operating and carrying out what they say they are doing . |
| 4 | ‘ But would you mind telling us why we 're here ? ’ |
| 5 | He is going to tell us how he came to be a Muslim . ’ |
| 6 | Erm , I was wondering if you 'd perhaps like to tell us how you 're going to manage your er , your . |
| 7 | In order to do this , we classify the adverts into types " aimed at women " and " aimed at men " ( we could instead have classified them as " television " versus " magazine " or " Italian " versus " British " , etc. ; and if our first attempt to classify gets us nowhere we might try one or more of these alternatives at a later stage ) . |
| 8 | When he gets to know us better we 'll get a hell of a welcome when we go in . |
| 9 | They , they will have to pick us up I 'm afraid , cos our pass is not valued till nine o'clock . |
| 10 | She started telling us how she had a bell which she rang if she needed help and I said I 'd listen out for it . |
| 11 | " Look , Miss , " he said , " my mate and I have got to get down to him , but you reported him , and I 'm afraid you 'll have to tell us how you came to see him . |
| 12 | It did hold us up I mean we would have been down there a lot quicker if we had n't had |
| 13 | ‘ If they are trying to grind us down we will not give way . |
| 14 | ‘ He knew we were watching his mother , but he did not know his wife had told us where he 'd hidden her . ’ |
| 15 | And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing . |
| 16 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 17 | ‘ If they found a point they wished to query us on we had to give an instant , pressurised response , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Now policemen , we used to have to give these blessed people these tickets , and we used to have a book , and they just merely gave name , age , occupation , which was nearly always labourer , where , and they had to tell us where they came from and where they intended going to , and more often that was from Stowmarket to , or the other way round . |