Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again we bring you the latest shareware reviews available here at Transend Services . |
| 2 | ‘ Shall we make it the best of three ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ May we give you the other one ? ’ |
| 4 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
| 5 | ‘ We paid him the other day . |
| 6 | Just by the coincidence of time : we visit her the same evening she 's burgled . ’ |
| 7 | Next door , the same discussion draws forth from a youth who looks about fifteen himself , ‘ We teach them the three Rs . |
| 8 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 9 | ‘ You know what men are like — swearing that their casual lovers are of no account , yet going berserk when we tell them the same thing ! ’ |
| 10 | It does n't matter if we get them the wrong way round it 'll still work out . |
| 11 | We called them The Big Ones . |
| 12 | If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something . |
| 13 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 14 | It will be made out to us and we pay you the following week . |
| 15 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 16 | Not to , I know we saw it the other night did n't we ? |
| 17 | We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can . |
| 18 | We offer you the complete works . |
| 19 | We offer you the entire spectrum of literature . |
| 20 | We liked it the first time , it was a bit like |
| 21 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 22 | If we gave them the five hundred , we wo n't , we are within , having said that , we 're not going to give everybody everything , I do n't think . |
| 23 | Whoops … we gave you the wrong phone number for Xalt Inc last week . |
| 24 | We call it the Conscious Paradigm . |
| 25 | We wish him the best of luck with this venture and he has promised that he wo n't forget us when he becomes famous ! |
| 26 | Joan Daniels has now been appointed Honorary Treasurer of the Medau Society and we wish her the best of luck in balancing the books — figuratively speaking ! |
| 27 | Well we wish you the best of luck , and er well let us know how you get on when you get back . |
| 28 | We had them the other night . " |