Example sentences of "[verb] we [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly reminded us that the decade is likely to be characterised by low growth and tight competition , and that retailers need to be positioned with a low cost base , flexible work-force and strong retail formats to meet the challenges of the next few years . |
| 2 | On the last night the owner visited us and the conversation turned to where we live . |
| 3 | The slope of the hill helped us and the Golf flipped over after three or four big rocking pushes . |
| 4 | ‘ He helped us when the church was flooded . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the road that joins us and the Prussians . |
| 6 | He wished us the best of luck and advised us that the Brigade was here to stay . |
| 7 | I look forward to this country being in the vanguard of the single currency because of the advantages that it will bring us and the Community . |
| 8 | Not only has science failed to solve all our problems , it is increasingly viewed as a monster which threatens to destroy us and the planet . |
| 9 | Let them go out and show us and the world that we are right ’ . |
| 10 | He appealed to Arab leaders to " show us and the world that you accept Israel 's existence " , to end the " poisonous preachings against Israel " which were evident in their countries , and to " renounce your jihad [ holy war ] against Israel " . |
| 11 | Delays cost us and the airlines a lot of money , so we 'll be beavering away to solve your problem as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | will it benefit us and the patient ? |
| 13 | He would love to split us and the Americans and to complicate our inter-Commonwealth relations . ’ |
| 14 | The article told us that the climbers meeting at Buxton ‘ firmly turned their backs on seductive French influences to make their sport safe ’ . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Southern Electric , which owns the cables at Haydon Wick , told us that the evidence is still far from conclusive and that no study to date has demonstrated that there are any adverse effects . |
| 16 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |
| 17 | While we were drinking our tea , the lady at the shop told us that the water that flows over Hardraw Force is in York within an hour . |
| 18 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 19 | We asked the prime ministers office for a comment — and were passed on to the treasury , which told us that the conditions for economic recovery are very much in place , but people in Cheltenham we spoke to were having none of it . |
| 20 | Mr Stage said : ‘ Staff there told us that the equipment and particularly the surgical instruments and incubators would save lives . |
| 21 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 22 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |
| 23 | He told us that the paintings on either wall faced each other , and he liked to think they carried on a consultation to themselves . |
| 24 | They told us that the Serbs were dangerous . ’ |
| 25 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 26 | passing the questioning to the Mountie bridged the void neatly , and the Mountie told us that the reason that Steve , Angelica 's business manager , also her lover , had not turned up at Toronto station was because he too was dead , struck down in his apartment by blows to the head with a mallet . |
| 27 | She told us that the hominids were quite vulnerable to these carnivores , which in her time included the sabre-tooth cat , and were often killed and eaten . |
| 28 | The men told us that the area was dangerous , that robbers used to hide in the mango tree at the crossroads and jump down on people returning home to their villages . |
| 29 | Our research also told us that the Student 's Book had to be in colour , so we took out the pictures and began again — using two pictures instead of one wherever possible — so that we stay up to date with the latest modifications to the Interview , Paper 5 . |
| 30 | The photograph was lent by a member of Frensham and Dockenfield Local History Society , who told us that the picture was taken around 1916 . |