Example sentences of "we [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet were we taught about Crapper at school ? |
| 2 | Or have we moved from minor to major ? |
| 3 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 4 | So what 've we got in terms of X ? |
| 5 | When , as a teenager , I read D. H. Lawrence 's poem ‘ The Tortoise ’ , the line ‘ O why are we crucified into sex at all ? 'seemed to me the most basic and profound of all existential cries . |
| 6 | The dusty road encircled the island , here and there broken by small fishing settlements — ‘ village ’ would be too pretentious a word — the country around us laced with waterfalls on the hills behind , small bays , one very shallow , the next a deep creek where the beach became a small headland , the pale colour of the sea turned indigo because of the depth . |
| 7 | Almost 100,000 people were interviewed , yet these conclusions sound incredible to those of us raised on statistics of population explosions and global disaster . |
| 8 | During lunch Joe kept us entertained with anecdotes about his friends and contributors — old Wyndham Lewis , half blind , who was one of his art critics , and who , when taken to eat at L'Escargot , just pushed his gourmet food around on his plate . |
| 9 | Although we would urge a total abandonment of an age limitation , those of us wearied by years of banging heads against , not so much the walls , as the balloons of officialdom ( for , eventually , walls splinter a trifle , whereas balloons bulge inwards and then return to their old shape ) , understand that we must count our blessings in small twopenny-pockets . |