Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of .
2 ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . )
3 He stressed , ‘ We only want him to come if it 's right .
4 Outside , it 's still raining , and as we gallantly struggle to open our umbrella in the wind , we suddenly find we 've come to a halt beside a large black car , and a man in a smart suit is opening the door for us to get in .
5 schedule , just in case we suddenly find we have n't got slots and
6 ‘ The main reason we broke up in the '80s was that after five or six years of constant touring and recording we suddenly found we did n't like each other any more .
7 We better get it cleared before this lot
8 We just let him use whatever dyes he liked and send us whatever he ended up with . ’
9 ‘ I suggest we just let them suffer , ’ Ben said cheerfully .
10 On the first trip , we just let them enjoy the sailing and see how much fun it can be .
11 We just let them kill whoever they want ? ’
12 The way I look back on it now , I think we just let it go .
13 We just left it blank most of the time , because The Bar was always changing its name .
14 Well , they can come in to the church , as many of them do , erm and I just say to them well , you know , do you respect this place and fine , it 's a place where we do n't chuck anybody out who comes into church for all sorts of reasons during the day when the church is open , you know , people come in , and there are many people like the ones we 've been talking about , who are in desperate need , and we just ask them to respect certain fairly mild rules they can always go out in the churchyard and smoke , but in the building itself we say no smoking and no drinking .
15 It might be a potential signing for the groundsman — if he can spit half as well as his dad then we just get him to run around on the pitch for 20 mins … no need for sprinklers etc .
16 What we just said we got there .
17 We just realised you had the flask . ’
18 We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’
19 State Trooper Lamica concluded : ‘ We just hope he has n't gone onto the glacier.It is filled with 400 ft deep crevasses , and is extremely dangerous . ’
20 We just asked them to leave and told them we would explain later .
21 If they started to cause trouble , we just asked them to move on and they appreciated it .
22 We had one or two , one or two vagrants knocking about , and we just asked them to move on , and they moved on .
23 ‘ Can you tell me when we can begin to teach the totally inexperienced , gauche young ladies you 've employed as receptionists , or do we just let them loose on our unsuspecting clients ? ’
24 Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall
25 I do n't remember there having a break , we had the break at er midday but I do n't remember , if we , if we did we had to work you know what I mean , we just have I forget , that is a bit I 've forgotten
26 We do n't encourage them to give up their other sports , we just want them to have the same chance in tennis . ’
27 We just want it to stay there , different calibre , different power and different altogether .
28 We just decided we had to have it , ’ he says .
29 in the kitchen going , we just wanted him to pass out .
30 quite a lot there , but it is n't the sort of paper we normally use you see , we normally use that shiny paper .
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