Example sentences of "we [adj] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In answering he correctly reminds us that young people are often of necessity in a subservient position as a result of their dependence on parents for food , clothing , and shelter ; teachers for schooling ; employers for employment ; skilled workers for instruction in apprenticed trades ; and on youth workers for leisure activities . |
| 2 | Experience has told us that rural people often perceive their own problems differently from the accepted establishment viewpoint , and it is the development of the perception , whether we consider the opinions right or wrong , which we must cultivate if we are seriously looking for long-term solutions . |
| 3 | They do want to make us all better people . |
| 4 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 5 | The unity of a civil society , what makes us all one people , is the fact that we 're subject to a single government according to Hobbes . |
| 6 | Erm , can I say that it 's only last year that we organised that video for secured car parks , and employed a blooming outside presenter to do it , and that cost us twelve thousand quid , and that were at Derby and they made an excellent bloody video of it did n't they ? |
| 7 | Well , at its annual conference the N U J gave us one hundred percent backing and carried on its support for us . |
| 8 | And erm and say I went shopping and I I saw that and I liked it and I thought oh I 'll go in and ask how much it is , he said give us twenty five quid for it , you can have the lot . |
| 9 | They 're giving us twenty five quid to record these . |
| 10 | So they did n't pay sixteen fifty and that 's costing us thirty five quid . |
| 11 | I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years |