Example sentences of "we be [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are switching five instrument and five electrical technicians from days to the five shifts , ’ said Ian Mincher . |
| 2 | Critics have argued that QALY theory is attractive as long as we are considering one person who is weighing up the likely outcomes with different treatments . |
| 3 | Mum came in from the shops and gave us the news that , starting from September , we are to have 2 morning services . |
| 4 | Even when we are balancing one consideration against another in a quite particular case , to decide which of two conflicting prima facie obligations is the more stringent , we are trying to reach such an intuition , but the wealth of detail which determines the relative degrees of stringency in this case will make it inexpressible in a formula mechanically applicable to other cases . |
| 5 | Movement to Italy of all Germans is not acceptable because it would cause serious blockage of our L of C … we are approaching 12 Army Gp immediately with request that they accept concentration … 3 . |
| 6 | We 're getting five veg , five fruit , twelve timber and what 's it seven |
| 7 | It is that is a paper from somebody , I know not who , but can I just explain , if we 're having one franchise passenger service next year , which is pretty well all you can do because you do need to have that record , track record , the business operating as a separate business before bidders can bid , if we 're having one next year , to suggest as I think the quote was , that the that would cost about one point two billion pounds is ridiculous , it 's ridiculous , a single , a single , |
| 8 | So , because in this Festival we will be reaching people we normally do not reach as a group , for instance we 're having two pop concerts , the Rory Bremner thing , we 're going to be reaching people we do n't normally see on our D I Y. |
| 9 | We do n't want the children from Columbia on the streets etcetera , because there 's sort of an awful helplessness about us , because we think we 're doing one person , how on earth can we actually do anything , you see if enough people think together that if possible the change happens , then it can happen , right , and you are actually the ones that are going to have to be considering that you are a world 's visitor , you are not just Tom and you 're not just Anthony right , erm , you 've really got to think , what about Jayne , there you are ideal Jayne |
| 10 | I think there 's a scale element cos we 're talking one sheet here and it 's a it 's a much bigger exercise . |
| 11 | We 're talking fifteen working days . |
| 12 | Yet , when one looks back , it all seems dim and forgotten already , except for the silly little incidents which stick in one 's mind , such as when we were dive-bombed one morning and the sergeant-major fell into his porridge ! … |
| 13 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 14 | We were playing three piece at the time and we thought , ‘ What are we going to do ? ’ |
| 15 | I went into erm aer aerodrome you know be we were having working seven days a week and we were having seven pound a week . |
| 16 | We when we got the song first and recorded we we were talking one day and we were just saying it would be an ideal song for Children in Need you know so we decided that we 'd er donate all the proceeds from this track on the video and album and the concert in Stockport , it 's tomorrow night is n't it ? |
| 17 | Erm , actually there was a mix-up with that yesterday , we were told one limb , |
| 18 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |