Example sentences of "we [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is because we need your brilliant white nose to help us each year to deliver presents . |
| 2 | He gives us that space to grow into the maturity he wants from each of us : freedom to think , freedom to pray in our own way , freedom to worship according to our temperament and inclination . |
| 3 | But at least two years because it would take us that time to furnish the house . |
| 4 | One police source said last night : ‘ They gave us 30 minutes to find four separate devices in a huge area like that . |
| 5 | yes could we sit down and write the two of us some pages to put to this next meeting so that we have actually got some meat in front of us ? |
| 6 | At first , it appeared an anachronism for BR to go to a council and say , ‘ please give us some money to build a new station ’ or , ‘ we need a subsidy to keep this service going ’ . |
| 7 | Is n't it time that Silver sorted things out and got us some money to buy players even if it means bringing in another board member . |
| 8 | Well , what the government has said today is that they 're giving us some money to help us to take it and boost it a bit further and we 're very pleased to see that . |
| 9 | These results give us some reason to hope that experiments on the extrapolation towards reactor conditions — on the Joint European Torus that is now being completed at Culham , for example — will prove favourable . |
| 10 | This took us some time to do but it was a lot of fun . |
| 11 | One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode . |
| 12 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 13 | It took us some time to reach the conclusion that this was ineffectual , for the class teachers , in copying the professional development teacher , had failed to adapt their teaching to the new context , creating a rather sterile repetition of the initial lesson … |
| 14 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 15 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 16 | All right , if you insist , but do come round this evening and give us another chance to try to persuade you … |
| 17 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |
| 18 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 19 | The chances of playing for England are remote … yet for Eire in goal is good , so he 'll get some international/world experience ( maybe in the World Cup … give us another reason to cheer on you Irish ; - ) |
| 20 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 21 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 22 | God created us for His own purposes , gave us free will to decide between good and evil , but retained unto Himself the ultimate decisions about the creation of life . |
| 23 | But it does n't mean , it 's not , reality says that 's not possible , because central government will not give us additional money to spend on education . |
| 24 | Artists are terribly difficult people for us ordinary mortals to deal with . |
| 25 | I thought only about my beautiful cat as the huge engines purred and the round wheels revolved enabling us two-legged people to journey in comparative comfort through the streets of London town ! ’ |
| 26 | He had left us three mysteries to try to sort out . |
| 27 | It took us three years to do it , but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits . |
| 28 | There were plenty of hands for your Caledonian Canal , but it has taken us three months to assemble a workforce here at St Catherine 's Dock . |
| 29 | A spokesman from ITV said : ‘ Our contract gives us exclusive rights to screen 10 domestic , six outdoor and three indoor events along with the Clubs Championships on Channel Four . |
| 30 | It took us 18 months to save for a holiday . |