Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] we [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right where we want you , ’ a quiet voice completed her sentence from behind her . |
| 2 | I knew that Ben was a good enough footballer to play effectively where we wanted him . ’ |
| 3 | They understand what we say better than we understand them . |
| 4 | So if we did it this way , erm , let's pick an actual bearing , so that we get it right . |
| 5 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 6 | So that we know we 've got to cover that and it was just er Caroline , Karen 's suggestions were in the external order , was that we , we should draw up some kind of plan , with dates as to say right , okay , we 're gon na do the work first . |
| 7 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
| 8 | It is 1800 light-years away , so that we see it today as it used to be in Roman times ; it is white , with an A-type spectrum . |
| 9 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 10 | Legends about the movement of stones arise because , if the stones are alive with energy , this in some way affects our perception so that we feel they are moving . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm half inclined to pursue her tomorrow ; perhaps if we had her we would have a few more answers to all this . |
| 12 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |
| 13 | Perhaps if we succeed it will be published by SquattervilIe Publishers later this year . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps if we give her a little more time ? ’ |
| 15 | It appears the Ministry men can have their cake and eat it … but only if we let them . |
| 16 | ‘ Only if we let it be . ’ |
| 17 | Only if we put them into their context in the larger narrative , can we see what is going on and feel their full force . |
| 18 | The problem here seems to be this : am I saying that a child is responsible if and only if we declare her to be so , given that she knows what she is doing ? |
| 19 | What is important is the discovery that saying these things can actually make us feel better , but only if we say them with sincerity . |
| 20 | A lot I think cos this this bit 's a quarter is n't it and we 'd get that 'd be enough if we cut it into quarters how many quarters would we get ? |
| 21 | So if we get it right the answer should come to ten . |
| 22 | So if we change them all into quarters how many quarters would there be in a half ? |
| 23 | Are we going to prepared to start that then , I 'll say we started , I make it , I make it dead on twenty five to now , but if we go by that clock , and if everybody goes by that one it 's probably easier , because that 's between twenty five to , so if we make it about eighteen minutes past . |
| 24 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
| 25 | If they just furniture ok , whereas Argos do a lot of other things as well , so if we take you over there you can have a look see if there 's anything you really fancy . |
| 26 | Slalom is meant to be fun ; it fails to be so if we take it all too seriously . |
| 27 | Twenty first , so if we got you booked in for that . |
| 28 | Right so if we pay you by five yearly value in three months , and invest for initially life cover of twenty thousand , and that 's O K for now . |
| 29 | Remember the last thing you did was add it on , so if we say it 's two pounds , we 're back down to forty pounds that he 's got to buy units . |
| 30 | So if we say he went from , let's , here 's , here 's a map . |