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We and were
We were coming to an intersection, turning right, chuffing to a stop.
We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.
We were in a field, in a tight, screeching turn.
We were back on the road.
We were slowing.
We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.
We were not, however, entirely unacquainted with the varying aspects of the street.
We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
We may say of some unfortunates that they were never young.
We were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.
`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.
We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.
`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.
We blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.
We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.
We were in business!!
We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.

We and harassed
Transgender actress Candis Cayne in 2009 called the LGBT community " the last great minority ", noting that " We can still be harassed openly " and be " called out on television.
" We are tired of being exploited, humiliated, harassed and used as merchandise by political factions ," he said.

We and hungry
We are thirsty and hungry ; ;
We went hungry when we made Jubilee.
In the classic example of Avis claiming " No. 2, We Try Harder ," the point was to say something so shocking ( it was by the standards of the day ) that it cleared space in your brain and made you forget all about who was # 1 and not to make some philosophical point about being " hungry " for business.
The song's lyric refers to conditions in the Southern states in the winter of early 1865 (" We were hungry / Just barely alive "); the Confederacy is starving and on the verge of defeat.
" We may also state that " there is a possibility that eventually I am no longer hungry.
" We are hungry ", the crews claimed ; " eighteen days have passed this month " and they still had not received their rations.
: We will go to the hungry people ;
: We will feed the hungry!
: We gave the bananas to the monkeys because they were hungry.
We are not told what were the intentions of the Commanding Officer in taking the ram, but if it were with the anticipation of a sound mutton dinner, then he must have gone hungry, for the ram was not slaughtered.
The day we expel them is drawing near ... We extended our hands to feed these hungry dogs and wild beasts, and they devoured our fingers.
The first-person plural expressions nosotros, nosotras, tú y yo, or él y yo can be replaced by a noun phrase that includes the speaker ( e. g. Los estudiantes tenemos hambre, ' We students are hungry ').
* We must both have been hungry because we constantly led the conversation round to food.
We were poor, hungry, and barely surviving on odd jobs before Mother learned the dry cleaning business as an apprentice to a Jewish tailor in our area.

We and .
We ran out of money and we haven't eaten for two days ''.
`` We didn't want town work '', Jones said.
We haven't slept together since we started.
`` We got fired '', Jones said.
`` We had to do something ''.
We may take her with us -- to California.
We want him back there or we want him dead ''.
We don't want Barton's Night Riders loose again ''.
`` We ain't got nothing to talk about.
We can soon tell ''.
`` We know Penny spent some -- and Carmer must have dropped a few dollars getting that load on ''.
We made a rendezvous tomorrow evening at nine on some street near Lake Ponchartrain.
`` We can get it if we dig '', he said patiently.
`` We can boil it '', he said.
We couldn't budge them.
We pulled and swore and yanked and wept, scraping our hands until they bled profusely.
So, I mustered my few words of the Manu dialect and said, `` We greet you in peace.
We are very proud of it ''.
We spoke of the need for advertising, and I agreed that the deep dive would be most useful for publicity.
`` We made it, Cappy '', the chick said.

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