Example sentences of "we poor [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ What will we poor priests do when you conquer , against a double invasion and your own new fleet turned against you ? ’ |
| 2 | We poor women must be looking to our defences , I swear ! |
| 3 | Senior council officials in Birmingham , some earning up to £65,000 a year — that is more than we poor Members of Parliament get — are living in council properties and paying rents as low as one fifth of market levels . |
| 4 | We poor savages , way back in the Dark Ages , still think that our women might possibly be satisfied with one man . |
| 5 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 6 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 7 | Well I think you know you 've got ta , got ta speak up for us poor husbands sometimes |
| 8 | When Harold Skimpole declares to him that ‘ The owners of such places as Chesney Wold … are public benefactors … good enough to maintain a number of delightful objects for the admiration and pleasure of us poor men ’ , Sir Leicester receives the compliment as no more than his due . |
| 9 | It is faith in our nation that has made us little people great , that has made us poor people rich , that has made us wavering , fearful , timid people brave and confident , that has made us erring wanderers clear-sighted and has brought us together ! |
| 10 | No thought for us poor traders etc , was the cry . |
| 11 | How strangely can you discompose , calm and turn us poor weathercocks of men . |
| 12 | ‘ Better than singing boastful tunes like ‘ Rule Britannia ’ as though you Brits were n't beaten hollow by us poor rebels , ’ was her riposte to that . |
| 13 | Us poor workers then had the even trickier job of turning the christmas grotto back into a living room ! |