Sentence examples for proper we from inspiring English sources

"At least in the city proper, we saw progress this year compared to last year.

Of course, scepticism towards MPs is right and proper: we can be a self-important, fractious and pernickety bunch.

Then came the letter proper: "We were over to your place to look at your cesspools and it will cost $30".

In the city proper we visited Zilker Botanical Garden, a verdant respite with mini-gardens, almost like rooms, spilling from one to another over some 30 acres.

But by page 38, when we are released into the story "proper", we already know that we can trust nothing we read from hereon in; that we are, possibly, in the hands of a madman.

Before returning to Yeosu proper, we made a brief detour to an eerily lighted, one-room museum located in a seemingly derelict complex: the so-called North Korean Semi-Submarine Exhibition Hall.

An agent who intends to bring her influence on others to bear in such a way as to make it the case that others do what is necessary for the intended state to obtain, however, does not have a proper we-intention.

But as Americans, we use "proper" when we almost always mean "standard".

"If we have the proper partnership, we will bid for the whole thing," he said, speaking of the seven million barrels.

If we had the proper kitchen, we'd be cooking all the time and putting on these giant dinner parties.

When "straight" is how we think of proper alignment, we park or fix ourselves in position.