Example sentences of "we [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But are you saying that neither we nor the Met have been able to build a case against him ? ’ |
| 2 | The cost of the charter to Aru had long since been settled : Yong would pay them half the sum now , and his relations would pay the balance once we and the cargo had safely reached Aru . |
| 3 | Truman later record that at Potsdam he " saw at first hand what we and the West had to face in the future " . |
| 4 | Both we and the Institute think it will be very effective . ’ |
| 5 | We and the Khedive ? ’ |
| 6 | There was a long , hard fight , but when it finished , we and the ship were prisoners . |
| 7 | Yet it is sometimes easy to be dazzled by the well-intentioned enthusiasm of a Vicki Hearne , or by false philosophy , into misunderstanding or down-playing the differences , and because it comes naturally to us to say that both we and the dog are angry , or frightened , we conclude that what goes for the human must go for the animal , making certain allowances for sensuous and anatomical variations . |
| 8 | Erm the greenbelt objectives which we identify with or could be compromised by significant peripheral expansion , or the expansion of a settlement within the greenbelt , were primarily the effecting the setting of the historic city , which we and the County considered and refer to more than just the green wedges , and but involve the whole countryside , and the setting of the settlements within the greenbelt around the Greater York area , expansion of lar large urban areas into the countryside , possible coalescence of settlements . |
| 9 | Well we but the house would n't would it ? |
| 10 | " Following who I wonder ; us or the boy ? " |
| 11 | They 'd followed that up by mounting a major surveillance job in London without clearing it with us or the Co-ordinator or anybody . |
| 12 | Raindrops feel and look heavy when they hit us or the ground . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's more precious to us than the crown jewels . ’ |
| 14 | If you do so you must repay to us immediately the amount by which your withdrawal exceeded the amount available and if you fail to do this we may debit any other account or accounts you may have . |
| 15 | Anyway , there was hardly an atmosphere of trust between the two of us so the idea of me ‘ dealing ’ with him was not a comfortable one . |
| 16 | I have concentrated on mortgage arrears and repossessions above , but it 's worth remembering that the HBAI report reminds us that the majority of people in the lowest 10% rely on rented accommodation . |
| 17 | The end credits inform us that the majority of the company were wounded , some more than once , and two killed . |
| 18 | It has certainly reminded us that the decade is likely to be characterised by low growth and tight competition , and that retailers need to be positioned with a low cost base , flexible work-force and strong retail formats to meet the challenges of the next few years . |
| 19 | I notice from the erm County Council 's own er document for today that they remind us that the Panel in looking at the present structure plan in nineteen eighty erm considered whether the county 's wish at that time to have this broad erm kind of sweeping up policy was appropriate . |
| 20 | Astrologers tell us that the water signs are non-confrontational . |
| 21 | While we were drinking our tea , the lady at the shop told us that the water that flows over Hardraw Force is in York within an hour . |
| 22 | Now corals are very sensitive to changes in water temperature and these regular bands tell us that the water temperatures did n't change very much . |
| 23 | These source rocks are the peridotites , and since geophysics tells us that the mantle consists of the same kind of material all over the world , it 's clear that melting part of the mantle beneath Hawaii should produce the same kind of rocks as those produced by melting part of the mantle beneath Iceland . |
| 24 | Although our commonsense view of the world now tells us that the brain is the seat of mind and action , the idea is remarkably new . |
| 25 | Monsieur Truffer confirmed to us that the crew must have died instantly — if they had not already been killed by the anti-aircraft fire . |
| 26 | Talking of Hampshire reminds us that the left-arm spinner Ian Turner had to wait till August before getting a Championship match . |
| 27 | What happened was that a big boardroom job that was quietly occupying us and running nicely to schedule suddenly went critical when our friendly architect informed us that the Secretary of State was opening the building four weeks earlier than scheduled and it would be very nice to have the furniture there . |
| 28 | What we need in the present case is further evidence to persuade us that the proposal to distinguish ordinary attributives as ( 37 ) ( a ) and postnominal attributives as ( 37 ) ( c ) goes beyond the mere possibility of correlating the two intensional patterns to the two different surface constructions . |
| 29 | First , an historical analysis reminds us that the press in the last century was not monolithic , that it displayed a rich diversity of styles , content and political positions . |
| 30 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |