Example sentences of "what we [verb] [adv] [be] " in BNC.

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1 In fact erm , what we agreed yesterday was one on this paper , two and three followed from it , erm , but were not actually moved , at the working party , because it was me who did the moving .
2 The other table what we had before was better , was no much so much time involved , by the time you 'd screw them round and turn 'em , to saw them into blocks there was a lot of time involved in it .
3 What we had together was n't faked .
4 Or is that what we 've just been talking about ? ’
5 Looked a sensible , down-to-earth type to me , and he might be a corrective to what we 've just been hearing .
6 But what we 've just been saying makes me ask if even that is going too far .
7 It would have to be , given what we 've just been talking about .
8 Mr Chairman I believe I have the floor and I would also say that contrary to what we 've just been told there are people employed by what was called and three to four hundred people are employed , they 're not effected other than fifteen people , fifteen people were not effected by this statement and there are some hundred and eighty people who still work for and connected with the project .
9 worked up the ladder , but , what 's required in a judge , I would say , put putting for the moment , what we 've just been discussing on the side , that is , any question of bias , or sex bias , a judge is there in court , to perform an intellectual .
10 So w er we did what we 've just been suggested from the front here you see .
11 What we witness here is something resembling the Freudian proposition that the repressed returns via the very images , structures , and mechanisms of repression itself : the words which consummate the renewal of man , his salvation , these words return to signify the opposite of salvation which is damnation , and they signify also the desire which only damnation can acknowledge and which salvation must repress .
12 It certainly is erotic , but is perhaps better described , following Eve Sedgwick , as homosocial desire , if only , in the first instance , to avoid the easy but questionable assumption that what we witness here is the irruption of repressed homosexual desire as conceived by Freud .
13 What we presuppose then is the real picture we have of God , and this may be very different from what we profess to believe about God .
14 Cos I says what you doing still working here , you know , that 's what we 'd just been on about
15 And what we have today are entirely modern creations , syntheses , the result of countless unrecorded accidents rather than the national spirit seeking to realise itself .
16 What we have instead is propaganda .
17 What we have tonight is a labour group that says they no longer believe in that philosophy .
18 WHAT WE HAVE HERE ARE NURSES NO BETTER THAN THUGS
19 First on the list for discussion must be ease of use and presentation , and perhaps predictably what we have here are icons .
20 What we have here is another American phenomenon : the marketing ploy .
21 What we have here is a catalogue of failure . ’
22 A commentator in the Financial Times delivered himself of the following judgment : ‘ Tripe is tripe : if it is not then what we have here is codswallop , tommyrot , drivel .
23 What we have here is a process of logical reductionism .
24 What we have here is an affirmation of the effectiveness of silence in the communication of absolute Truth , a fact fully understood by the Buddha and his followers .
25 What we have here is the ‘ King 's new clothes syndrome ’ yet again .
26 What we have here is one jet-black copy of a Lennon-style Rickenbacker 325 ( dubbed the RK-32B , ho ho ) and one red sunburst-finished copy of Townshend 's fave battleaxe the 330 , the Encore RK-33R ( I think we 'll call them the red one and the black one ) .
27 What we have here is a bloody miracle . ’
28 What we have here is cognitive regulation .
29 He said : ‘ What we need is a budget for jobs , what we have here is a budget for job losses . ’
30 And last night lawyer Peter Edwards , who represents a third of the inmates , said : ‘ What we have here is nurses who are no better than thugs . ’
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