Example sentences of "we [be] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 2 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 3 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 4 | We gladly accept all these rightful strictures and if we are to enjoy the same success with councils we have to accept their bye-laws , too . |
| 5 | ‘ We are experiencing the same sort of trend today as in Victorian times , when religious puritanism led to the editing out of potentially sexual and embarrassing aspects of Andersen 's tales , ’ said Professor Glyn Jones . |
| 6 | Important events require some preparation if we are to make the most of them and arguably this is more true of retirement than of any other stage . |
| 7 | We are following the same pattern as our last Rally by not having a break during the afternoon . |
| 8 | We are rowing the same boat , I think — ’ |
| 9 | By trying to reform finance without simultaneously considering local government 's powers , boundaries and responsibilities we are making the same mistake as we made then . |
| 10 | Alternatively it may be that you hanker after some lost love and are therefore convinced that we are doing the same , when in most cases nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 11 | Erm we 're not always privy to what goes on with the front bench , but yes we have established regular dialogue with Jack Straw and the environment team , in order that we make sure we are saying the same thing . |
| 12 | Erm , we 're , we 're using the same agenda which is why conf confusion about venue on the front cos I said to my secretary |
| 13 | We 're using the same formulation . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh God , maybe we 're having the same one ! ’ she says excitedly . |
| 15 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
| 16 | We 're doing the same thing here , we 've got a , a low resistance letting a lot of current in , letting a lot of current go through . |
| 17 | And if we 're doing the same thing , they 're gon na s sooner of later they 're gon na click and they 're gon na say , Well you know , that 's too much of a good thing like you know . |
| 18 | And it looks like we 're doing the same thing , over and over , but we 've got one damned thing the phoenix never had . |
| 19 | the simple straightforward statement ‘ I am cold ’ and I just wondered whether , you know , extrapolating backwards whether we 're doing the same disservice to Shakespeare . |
| 20 | And I just wondered whether , you know extrapolating backwards , whether we 're doing the same disservice to Shakespeare . |
| 21 | The original meaning , as defined by Collins , has certainly taken a mean whipping before re-release into this streetwise prose but we 're talking the same thing here , are n't we ? |
| 22 | Er if this i if we 're talking the same |
| 23 | I think we 're saying the same thing . |
| 24 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 25 | I asked , not certain we were discussing the same property . |
| 26 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 28 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 29 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 30 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |