Example sentences of "we [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lose some of the sense of taste as we get older , but the temptation to add more salt to food , and to eat salty foods , should be resisted — salt is best added only at the cooking stage ; not at the table . |
| 2 | Living up to other people 's signalled expectations is often a pleasure/pain experience : pleasure in the recognition we receive for satisfying others ' expectations , pain in the sense that we lose some of our independence and freedom . |
| 3 | Then they condemn themselves as well and until society can say that 's perfectly alright , that 's a good situation to be in , whoever it is you 're living with , and that you as a child are okay and are valued then the children themselves will be okay and I think the Sco , we lose some of the erm secondary deprivation and emotional deprivation that children in single parent families |
| 4 | Naturally we lose some points at the beginning and end ( four in this case ) but this may not be of great importance in a long series . |
| 5 | We appointed some friendly stewards whose sole job was to encourage people from their point of arrival to their destination . |
| 6 | If we change some of those responses , then it is likely that the people who have used and relied on them will not ‘ know ’ us any more , and their demands will have no further effect . |
| 7 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 8 | In the section on Aspects of Equality , we consider some of the social divisions and inequalities which have featured in educational discourses and policies ; and in the section on Education and Work , we raise some of the issues stemming from the employment problems of young people . |
| 9 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 10 | We met some lovely people — quite a few from Scotland , and our last night was spent in the company of a group of friends from Scotland , England , Ireland and Holland , having a meal in an Indian restaurant , and hearing about the scuba diving and snorkelling in the Red Sea . |
| 11 | ‘ It is unnatural , ’ said the Sheikha when we met some months later . |
| 12 | We met some nice people that way . |
| 13 | In the Boar 's Head we met some friends and started talking . |
| 14 | He went back into Iraq , in the marshes , at great personal danger to himself and translated for me when we met some Shias . |
| 15 | In this last section we highlight some important research areas as we see them . |
| 16 | In this issue of Health Action we highlight some of the challenges that arise in the collection and use of information and some of the experiences of people who are trying to meet those challenges . |
| 17 | In this section we highlight some of the issues that arise in industrial policy . |
| 18 | But if in adult life we suffer some hearing loss , then experience of language is the springboard which turns sound into sense . |
| 19 | You can imagine what an outcry there 'd be from women if we made some such generalisation about them , but we men are supposed to take this shit . ’ |
| 20 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 21 | I had asked similar questions and was advised to try Jones + Brother with the result that I bought a KA881 with ribber and eventually we made some lovely garments together . |
| 22 | ‘ How would you like it ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ if we made some very cautious experiments to see just how much you can move and push ? ’ |
| 23 | You will understand that when we knew what we were coming into we made some discreet enquiries . |
| 24 | GUIL : I think we can say we made some headway . |
| 25 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 26 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 27 | ‘ We made some bad defensive errors we sometimes make it hard for ourselves with some naive defending as a team and this is something we have to improve on . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Whatever our mistakes — and we made some — I truly do not think we deserved this . ’ |
| 29 | That 's where er we made some money potato scones . |
| 30 | No it 's only because we made some on holiday when we went |