Example sentences of "we a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is one who has been with us a long time — but then those are old maids of course . |
| 32 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 33 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 34 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 35 | That 'll be one read , but we 'd have to read it to you and it 'll take us a long time ! |
| 36 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 37 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 38 | From some time in high summer until we left the Pit the guards started bringing us a regular supply of videos . |
| 39 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 40 | An increasingly broad appreciation of the Scriptures will give us a developing ability to scent the will of God in any given situation . |
| 41 | ‘ She seemed to us a shining light , who did a lot for Liverpool . |
| 42 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |
| 43 | Feynman offers us a simple way to see that this happens . |
| 44 | Planning our future gives us a greater sense of internal control and increases self-esteem . |
| 45 | With the document being debated this week , we should beware of making branches accountable to its members , and increasing the numbers to one hundred gives us a greater base to work from than fifty . |
| 46 | Curiously enough , however , these are among the very people who tend to shy away from any kind of subjective description of what being a believer is like , and one frequently finds an empathic researcher who does not believe and may even be unsympathetic giving us a greater insight into what it is like to be a member of a particular religion ( see , for example , Cashmore , 1983 ; Judah , 1974 , Westley , 1983 or Lofland , 1976 ) . |
| 47 | Sinclair Hood ( 1982 ) nevertheless gives us a salutary reminder that the Minoans lived in a world where might was right , where Egyptian rulers boasted of their subjugation of foreigners , of the cities and territories they had sacked and laid waste , and where Hittite kings boasted of holding their lands ‘ with a strong arm ’ , and of capturing the idols of their enemies . |
| 48 | It was for both of us a temporary refuge from a reality which was n't giving either of us much joy . |
| 49 | Oh yes , it was a help the students give us a fantastic help you know , in financially and the the came on that gate a lots of times with us . |
| 50 | And divided it by the number of samples taken to give us a mean average . |
| 51 | Vegetable juice is even less desirable , and the resulting plant print rarely has any relevance to the text Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave us a gentle reminder in Aurora Leigh : |
| 52 | They therefore offered us a ground-floor flat in a house that they owned . |
| 53 | Lewis 's claim that ‘ the records ’ give us a stark choice about Christ — either he was a ‘ raving lunatic ’ or else ‘ He was , and is , precisely what He said ’ — is startling , to say the least . |
| 54 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ The game will give us a decent idea of what he is like . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ Then , dear fellow , make with the stuff , bring forth a get-up , lay on the gear , give us a decent hit for the love of Mike , for by Zeus I am surely clucking fit to bust . ’ |
| 56 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 57 | Thus the FA would have to pay us a decent fee , did n't someone mention £15 mil and we could then go out and get a good manager ( Terry Yorath etc etc ) plus we 'd have a fair share of the £15 mil to buy players i.e a really good center back and a good striker ! ! ! |
| 58 | K : ‘ He has tried his best to get us a decent place but sometimes it feels as though we 're beating our heads against a brick wall . ’ |
| 59 | It gave us a marvellous opportunity to listen to your views about IDEAL HOME , face to face . |
| 60 | This gives us a powerful sense of tradition , in the best sense of the word . |