Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | When grave breaches of the convention occur , we raise them frequently , and directly , with the Israelis . |
2 | So can we eat them here please ? |
3 | ‘ We met him here . |
4 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
5 | I THOUGHT it was terrific when David JoHansen of the New York Dolls delivered such quips a : ‘ Who cares about the music when one has such sense of drama ? ’ and , ‘ We do n't play too good but we can dance as bad as we want , ’ and ‘ We do n't hold concerts — we throw parties ! ’ , and ‘ It does n't bother us when people say that we ca n't play , when we met we actually could n't , ’ etc , etc , but all these sweeping statements were launched in 1973 , and when those same epigrams are repeated three years later by lesser mortals ( i.e. Sex Pistols , Runaways , Ramones and Kiss ) , things begin to look synthetic . |
6 | I was trying to find the place we met her yesterday morning when I heard you shouting and the sounds of ambush so I rode to investigate . ’ |
7 | On Wednesday , we met them again , when we were invited to a dinner in their honour at the Embassy . |
8 | We met them afterwards on stage . |
9 | If you like to think that we started discuss discuss this discussion by saying there was a demand after the war , you can see now that we met it in , over and over again cos these machines were all over America . |
10 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
11 | Teacher : What if we lay them down ? |
12 | we perceive it simultaneously , |
13 | But because of the evidence neither can we explain it away : there is the beginning of the rationality of faith . |
14 | We bring her in at night . |
15 | ‘ Then we bring him in . |
16 | One detective who works in the area said : ‘ We are working very long hours tracking these people but when we bring them in , legal impediment after legal impediment is thrown up in our faces . |
17 | We bring them home , kill them , and put them on a whitethorn bush . |
18 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
19 | Our mourning can only be taken up into joy when we bring it back to Jesus Christ . |
20 | It was water-logged , half-buried in the sand , and surprisingly heavy but she insisted that we bring it back to the car with us . |
21 | But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention . |
22 | Width is n't too important , as long as you 've got a bit of elbow room : we made ours so that it finished at around one metre wide . |
23 | He says to his daughter , very quietly , ‘ Do you think we made him so ill bringing him here that he 's going to die ? ’ |
24 | If the police think we made them up , they 'll think the same about the tapes , maybe about the kidnap itself . ’ |
25 | ‘ We made it up between us , ’ she said , ‘ and it was the first time ever we two met outside these walls . |
26 | We made it through , paddling to a quiet spot and awaited the others . |
27 | we made it straight away , we were working Saturday and Sunday in London as soon as we were finished I always used to make us a pack of sandwiches about six or eight did n't I ? |
28 | ‘ But we made it together , Mark . |
29 | We made it more . |
30 | Looking back over the two games we made it extremely difficult for ourselves in Moscow . |