Example sentences of "we [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have n't we enough bloody fools in the cavalry already ? ’ |
| 2 | We less poetic mortals sat for a while in the afternoon sunlight and shadow , then we turned down the path again for a pot of tea and a scone for myself and Eddy and a biscuit for Bill before we began the road walk back to the car . |
| 3 | Have we not enough problems ? ’ |
| 4 | as opposed to the , but , but some cupboard doors are diamond pattern , Muffin will you be quiet have we any more bones cooked for them or have they had them all ? |
| 5 | For example , we now brief recruits on their rights and tell them and encourage them to actually come forward with their complaints , we very carefully brief and select our N C Os , we have open days for parents , we bring parents in so that they can feel part of the set up right from the start and so that their sons join the army and they tell their other friends to make sure they do to . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ We as Liberal Democrats should make this point : that people in England are also being governed by a party that a majority of them did n't vote for . |
| 7 | How can we as Black women have any faith in a police force which refuses to acknowledge our calls for help , refuses to provide protection , and refuses to take action against those who attack us ? |
| 8 | Even we as practising Christians find it extremely difficult to avoid the acid of materialism . |
| 9 | Were we really such suckers for the average disco-garage of ‘ Warning ! ’ ? |
| 10 | Are n't we good little children ? |
| 11 | An identification of books with enjoyment and a positive readiness to devote leisure time to reading seem to us wholly desirable outcomes of primary and secondary school experience . |
| 12 | In fact , crickets and cicadas hear through stretched membranes rather like our own eardrums , but these are placed in what seem to us rather odd positions . |
| 13 | This seems to leave us only two options : either to believe anyway ( repressing our doubts and feeling guilty about those that remain ) or to give up faith . |
| 14 | In April two students from this school stood back to let an elderly disabled woman enter the Post Office before them and in June another student , who I am glad to say had been with us only two weeks , was spotted by two seniors through the window of the tap room of the Throstle 's Nest , helping a blind woman across the road . |
| 15 | We departed by the garden staircase , bringing with us only such articles of apparel and personal effects as could be worn or carried . |
| 16 | The 15 mile route took us only 50 yards along the main road before we turned off to cycle alongside an idyllic stream . |
| 17 | You can lend us all some clothes to go home in , ’ Nutty decided . |
| 18 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 19 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 20 | A penny fare took us a mile and 2½d ( maximum fare ) would take us approximately 20 miles in any direction . |
| 21 | The misanthropic gardener elevates his roses and relegates his relations and if challenged , as well he might be , would give us possibly good reasons for so doing . |
| 22 | And no doubt next time we do a piece on East Anglian rock — it took us nearly 40 years to do this one , so the next one should be in 2032 — we promise to be nice to Ipswich . |
| 23 | ‘ It took us nearly ten years and we had to jump through massive hoops . |
| 24 | ‘ You had us worried at Central Office after the by-election Joe , but you certainly proved us wrong three months later , ’ said Mr Parkinson , slapping him on the back . |
| 25 | He led us up four flights of dark , narrow stairs , before disappearing up a rickety ladder out on to the roof . |
| 26 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 27 | It takes us back 20 years . |
| 28 | For the next five weeks , our world would consist of these cliffs , the tundra below and the seashore , an area that took us about five hours to walk around . |
| 29 | ‘ They fed us about five times on the plane , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Her mother spent a weekend with us about six months after Shanti came to us , to reassure herself that for us to adopt Shanti was really what she wanted . |