Example sentences of "we a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should ask ourselves , are we a country of opportunists ? |
| 2 | Blackburn are faltering and Newcastle did us a favour at Cambridge . |
| 3 | Please give us a call on Brighton 676926 . |
| 4 | They renovate and enhance our reactions to life by disrupting established habits of response , and creating in us a state of equilibrium of a kind that other sorts of experience can rarely achieve . |
| 5 | Yes they gave us a drink of beer and that erm and that was entirely up to them and erm . |
| 6 | The cross shows us a union of opposites : returning forgiveness when evil was given ; giving life when death was inflicted ; showing love in the face of hatred . |
| 7 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 8 | In former days the economical cycle hit different parts of the world at different times and the spread gave us a degree of stability . |
| 9 | Two , two or three week 's running Jenny came up on a weekend and brought us a bar of chocolate each |
| 10 | It 's costing us a bit of money but er , you know , we do n't do these things for the short term , er |
| 11 | I thought I 'd give us a bit of cabbage last night . |
| 12 | Give us a bit of credit tonight . |
| 13 | Give us a bit of support . |
| 14 | ‘ Give us a bit of time , ’ whined Jackie 's voice . |
| 15 | That is going to take us a bit of time to put into place , but we 're , you know we 're moving just about as fast as our legs can carry us . |
| 16 | Afford us a bit of respect now and again . |
| 17 | Well , he 's saved us a bit of trouble , I suppose . " |
| 18 | Before us a spectre of technology dominates the skyline . |
| 19 | I approached the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , who thought the project a good one , and promised us a grant of £3,000 for materials and hire of equipment , subject to SNH approval . |
| 20 | After giving a short overview of the history of the line he showed us a selection of slides covering various aspects of the line . |
| 21 | The values tabulated here give us a measure of comparison for Kaimann 's experimental results . |
| 22 | Ask Rosemary to make us a pot of tea . " |
| 23 | In the days of the Bestiary and the Emblem Book , animal pictures had shown the world of Aesop 's fables ; butterflies giving us a symbol of resurrection , and also of feckless enjoyment , in pictures waiting to be decoded . |
| 24 | showing us a mouthful of guava . |
| 25 | And RZB 's willingness to find flexible solutions to trading problems have gained us a reputation for business without barriers . |
| 26 | they sent us a parcel before Christmas three weeks before Christmas , and they were ringing se , because he knew with overseas or anything . |
| 27 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 28 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |
| 29 | On another occasion they brought us a bowl of cherries . |
| 30 | I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general . |