Example sentences of "[prep] they we [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we known about them we might have paid more attention to the findings of the crime survey which suggested a quite extraordinary level of public support for what is now dismissed as the ‘ political rhetoric ’ of the social worker . |
| 2 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 3 | Through them we can come to know ourselves and others a little better . |
| 4 | Erm if it 's if you 're desperate for them we can rush it in |
| 5 | er after they got so you had n't got no more life in them we used to weld short bits onto . |
| 6 | We noticed that quite often if people ate the sandwich they left the cake , or vice versa , so when we used to collect the trays from them we would take whatever was left . |
| 7 | Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii . |
| 8 | The names of moneyers would not otherwise be known ; from them we can reconstruct the careers of Roman politicians . |
| 9 | Without them we would have arrived in Parma absolutely frozen . |
| 10 | Those assets certainly would cost money to replace and to that extent their existence means they are worth their replacement cost : without them we would have to incur the replacement cost to retain their services . |
| 11 | Because we 're so used to them we may have relaxed our guard . |
| 12 | To them we should respond with greater fervour . |