Example sentences of "be [verb] we [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Our culture is clearly a riotous heap of fragments and Erasure are asking us why we ca n't live together . |
2 | And 40 years ago you — or rather your semi-erect ancestors — were asking us why we did n't just change our name to New Accordion Express . |
3 | I 'll I think it 's a bit much when you have highway engineers there and really they were showing us how it should be done . |
4 | ‘ Do n't be a spoilsport , Sidney ; Ernie 's been telling us how he shook hands with the undertaker . ’ |
5 | We have 100 — yes , one bloody hundred — Orb stickers to dish out like there 's no tomorrow and all you have to do to win one is tell us WHY you deserve one . |
6 | ‘ In other words , ’ Cranston half whispered to Athelstan , ‘ the fellow is asking us when we are going to bugger off . ’ |
7 | Are the people too blind to see that the Dublin government is telling us where we can and where we can not parade , where we can and where we can not fly the Ulster flag and that a foreign flag can fly on our soil ? |
8 | He 's telling us how he spent last night here , on the car-park , in his van . ’ |