Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We started to receive telephone calls telling us we only had so many hours to live . |
| 2 | Many of us are in here at seven o'clock in the morning because that is noon time over there and so we only have about half a day to work together . |
| 3 | We only have so much money . ’ |
| 4 | Well , I mean we just said well that 's , you know , an expensive place for a holiday by the sound of it , but erm we had n't got into any details . |
| 5 | So , on the first day of brushing we just brush as much as the horse will tolerate . |
| 6 | We already have too much consumption , particularly of things damaging to health and the environment : of sugar , confectionery , fatty foods , alcohol , tobacco , motoring , noisy entertainment , pornography , prostitution , and the toys and knick-knacks produced by polluting industries . |
| 7 | Why do we not throw off this hangover of socialism and instead celebrate a free enterprise day , a British export day or , better still , a low taxation day ? |
| 8 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 9 | Could we not find out some means ? |
| 10 | Had we not spent even more money on the BAIE Awards this year by advertising on the inside front cover of the magazine , we would not have received a single name check for 15 awards during the whole evening and in all the attendant publicity . |
| 11 | Not only are we rapidly filling up these refuse sites but the disposal and site maintenance is also costing us a lot of money — all from our rates ! |
| 12 | At the same time and again harking back to Durkheim , at least in the case of tribal societies we usually know very little of their past through lack of documentary sources , so we can ignore this ‘ conjectural history ’ . |
| 13 | The obvious inadequacy of this explanation is that it begs the question of why exposure to a stimulus should allow the acquisition of a new response — we usually suppose only that existing unconditioned responses ( URs ) will habituate . |
| 14 | No , no , cos we always had so many spare buckets you see . |
| 15 | A Foreign Office spokesman said : We always do as much as we can in such circumstances . |
| 16 | We still knew very little about them . |
| 17 | We may now be able to observe and record strandings in ever-increasing detail , but we still know very little of what lies behind them . |
| 18 | Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers . |
| 19 | In contrast , we still know so little of the ways of life and intelligence of these magnificent creatures . |
| 20 | ‘ Around two million people visit the Black Hills every year , but we still see very little of the money . |
| 21 | I mean are we still trading as much agricultural goods , or as much manufacturing goods as we |
| 22 | I do detect a certain er levity here I would point out that it is now twenty five past nine and we still have n't this afternoon 's business . |
| 23 | Impressed by their studiousness , we carefully counted out some coins , making sure each boy got the same amount . |
| 24 | But we also remember how that was n't sustained , and the cynical political fix of the Tories a few months later , that for the moment has coped with the government 's political crisis , and temporarily has bought a little time for a few pits . |
| 25 | We now know where this man made his money : in Italy , not at Tartessus , as had erroneously been deduced from Herodotus 4.152 . |
| 26 | We now know so much more about you ! |
| 27 | The fact that we now know so much about it proves that he was utterly wrong . |
| 28 | We now know too much about child development to allow this kind of testing to be inflicted on our schools , so we must co-operate in developing and using appropriate tests while , at the same time , resisting inappropriate proposals . |
| 29 | We now know too that in the later part of that time a form of Greek was widely spoken there . |
| 30 | Wild rabbits can be kept in captivity and eventually tamed , and it is , in fact , because this has happened through the centuries that we now see so many variations . |