Example sentences of "we [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly think that nine months down the road we are saying to ourselves , ‘ Well what are we about ? ’ |
| 2 | We are really struggling at this point in time , thinking , ‘ What are we doing , what are we about ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mm , ’ said Raymond ‘ Are we about ready for off ? ’ |
| 4 | I was listening to the end bit , I was saying what were we about at the end . |
| 5 | Did we think we about the old staff did you say ? |
| 6 | Let's have a word Colin shall we about er Saturday 's display , er get your thoughts together on that and w we 'll enjoy the goals from that er great victory against Palace at Lane when er Notts fought their way back from being two down against the team that were second in the table , great fight back . |
| 7 | Indeed , if we as a magazine were to reflect accurately the role of ‘ traditional ’ design relative to its actual usage , we might manage about one page per issue . |
| 8 | We as organisers of all-night dancing parties would welcome the reasonable regulation of parties . |
| 9 | But the media only pick out the failures , because that 's what we as readers want to read . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think I need to tell us how saturated we as a people are by American culture . |
| 11 | The problem is that we as a nation continue to expect a clinical quart out of an economic pint . |
| 12 | This can only be fully understood , however , when we as individuals make our own personal and spiritual visit to Bethlehem . |
| 13 | What we as farmers say to the contrary is often ignored because we are seen as having an interest to represent . |
| 14 | What we as carers can do is to support the people concerned while they get on with it in their own way . |
| 15 | It seems that if we as adults have the courage to talk openly and honestly to children then we have a great deal to learn from them , given their openness and ability to describe simply matters of life and death with great dignity and inbuilt wisdom . |
| 16 | But just as the narrator has difficulty in piecing together the fragments of her story , so we as readers are never able to see the whole picture . |
| 17 | ‘ No longer do we as a profession support the termination of one individual to ease the discomfort and social inconvenience of the other . |
| 18 | And all over the world , we as women will continue to raise our voices . |
| 19 | The more successful the town and country is the more chance we as individuals have of being successful . ’ |
| 20 | It is an educational argument based on what children need , and what we as society need from them . |
| 21 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 22 | This would be in tune with the general desire of the council officials that we as researchers should not set about asking direct questions about incomer and Shetlander relations . |
| 23 | I wanted my own name because we as wimmin never have our own last names . |
| 24 | If so , how on earth can we as a nation compete in Europe ? |
| 25 | Can we as a country survive if we do not change our attitudes ? |
| 26 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 27 | • We as fishkeepers should take every precaution to ensure that the fish 's gills are not stressed or damaged in any way , either through rough handling or poor water quality . |
| 28 | I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince . |
| 29 | ‘ Despite what Major calls his very humble background , we as a community have n't heard anything except rhetoric , ’ says Ishtiaq Ahmad of Bradford 's Council for Mosques and Racial Equality Council . |
| 30 | The wide variety of scenarios should , we argue throughout this book , be treated as a series of options over which we as a society ought to be able to exercise some choice . |