Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] we [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for them we would not have known such beautiful places existed . |
| 2 | Only for the whole lot of you we 'd not be near that far on , ’ Moran was able to praise . |
| 3 | No well if you had ten pounds shared between a hundred of us we 'd all get the same amount if we had one pound shared between ten of us . |
| 4 | And while there are scientific minds like those of Stephen Hawking many steps ahead of us we will always want to listen to their stories of exploration — even if we can only get glimpses of what they are trying to describe . |
| 5 | Without people like him we would n't have a PFK magazine and that would be about as bad as never having heard of fish at all ! |
| 6 | With this cautionary illustration behind us we can now proceed to a more complex and interesting example . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's going to be hard because Spartak have got a lot of international players and lots of pace , but if we can get at them and the crowd get behind us we can hopefully get the right result . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It 's going to be hard because Spartak have got a lot of international players and lots of pace , but if we can get at them and the crowd get behind us we can hopefully get the right result . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's going to be hard because Spartak have got a lot of international players and lots of pace , but if we can get at them and the crowd get behind us we can hopefully get the right result . ’ |
| 10 | Behind us we could just make out the glimmer of lamplight from the tiny hotel on Lake Pehoe , where we should be dining on river trout , bife chorizo and good Chilean pinot noir before the night was out . |
| 11 | go with them we ca n't let them go on there own , I mean once there 've school , you 've got to take come back later or something . |
| 12 | If you stand over Wembley Stadium and pour ice cream into it we 'd almost fill it in a year . |
| 13 | If you bought straight from him we would n't be paying money to the galleries , but I can see you 're frightened to go , I said , so there 's an end to it . |
| 14 | It is not at all improbable that Hitchcock also followed this system , but in the absence of a single manual from him we can not be sure . |
| 15 | In it we can not go to any of the extremes because we are aware of them all . |
| 16 | How many such stories lie hidden from us we can not tell ; but we can be sure that he reflects many of the aspirations of his day : as a merchant on land and sea , in the Baltic , the North Sea and the Mediterranean ; as a pilgrim to the shrines of England and Scotland , to Saint-Gilles , to St Peter and to Jerusalem , he accomplished what many others were doing , and far more aspired to . |
| 17 | ‘ We basically say to them if you put your trust in us we will not fail you — and that has been the case . |
| 18 | ‘ If it was n't for him we 'd still have the empire . ’ |
| 19 | No , I know we can get a new one off him we can always get |
| 20 | If it was n't for her we 'd never have set foot in Farmhouse Grim . |
| 21 | Without them we would n't be anywhere , ’ says Mrs Coates . |
| 22 | A spokesperson commented : ‘ It 's true that without them we may well have closed . ’ |
| 23 | Without them we should not be who we are ; we should not be recognisable as normal adult humans at all . |
| 24 | And without them we could n't function properly . |
| 25 | I rang , I rang , I went to the dole office , when I went down I ask them as soon as I left Ann said the same , go down the dole when you ask about your poll tax , they said to me we ca n't give you any id , er anything , you have to phone them , council building site , I phone the council building and they asked me , that 's why I sent all your wage slips in for |
| 26 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |
| 27 | But we we can not It seems to me we can not end up with a blank sheet of paper , and draw a set of criteria up which says it it can be anywhere here . |
| 28 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 29 | ‘ In fact , it may not turn out to be a job at all , but without you we could n't know for sure . ’ |
| 30 | Without him we might not have won the Championship or be in a position to be playing Rangers . |