Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We goin' pick them like they ripe avocados . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We goin' take these politician' , leetle dog , an' we goin' put them in one beeg hole so they don' come back . |
| 3 | A lot of things were said when we broke up and perhaps we regret saying them . |
| 4 | In the early 1980s , Dan tried to trace his old crew and received this letter from the Veterans Administration , informing him ‘ We regret to advise you that our records reflect the deaths of three of your crew : — Edward C Chambers , July 31 , 1973 ; William F Mackowiak , November 10 , 1975 ; Charles J Wilson , January 2 , 1978 . |
| 5 | If we disbelieve do they cease to exist ? |
| 6 | What she decided to do was produce Monday which we agreed to put it in for Monday and she would ask them midweek delivery . |
| 7 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 8 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 9 | Vuk , however , was less enthusiastic , and wrote of his own people , ‘ It is hard to induce them to acknowledge that they are Serbs , and we would be crazy if we agreed to abandon our famous name and to adopt another one [ Illyrian ] , which is dead and today has no meaning in itself . ‘ |
| 10 | ‘ We are all culpable in Carlotta 's death , since we agreed to let her stay behind ; we could have ordered her to return . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Let's say we agreed to go our separate ways . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We agreed to go our own ways a year ago . |
| 13 | we agreed to do something like six months ago . |
| 14 | We agreed to do it this way , do you remember ? " |
| 15 | So we agreed to do it for him . |
| 16 | cos we agreed to do it quick , we 've got a |
| 17 | He went on more seriously , ‘ So we agreed to follow our different ways . |
| 18 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 19 | All the Iraqi people with whom we met assured us that they were eager for negotiations in order to avoid war , but said that they would not take orders from George Bush , and that none of the parties should insist on any conditions to the holding of these negotiations . |
| 20 | Each of us invested ten shillings and we met to decide our bets . |
| 21 | The Chairman , Charles Holmes , Vice Chairman Frank Scott , Secratary John Potter , their wives and all the other members we met gave us an exceptionally warm welcome and instantly made us feel at home . |
| 22 | We met doing our hobby . |
| 23 | Although we were wary of being shown set-up situations , the people we met impressed us as having deep convictions , lively minds , tireless enthusiasm , incorruptible moral standards . |
| 24 | We applied to hire it but were told it was not available until refurbished and handed over to the community association . |
| 25 | As a church are we willing to accept the rule of the Prince of Peace and the power of the resurrection or do we prefer to shut our doors to the pains of the poor and pretend they are not there Pause |
| 26 | As a church do we seek the crucified Christ in the poor and speak out with the prophet 's tongue or do we prefer to limit our view to a plaster statue and speak quietly in platitudes ? |
| 27 | ‘ We failed to see there would come a point where additional leisure would become more stultifying than satisfying and that the mass of men would be incapable of absorbing any more , ’ wrote the Harvard sociologist , David Riesman . |
| 28 | Bellowing ‘ Vatch me ! ’ he took off to show how it was done and then stood chatting at the bottom while we failed to do it . |
| 29 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |
| 30 | This brilliant and disturbing book shows how little we understood what really happened at My Lai and how we failed to appreciate its significance . |