Example sentences of "we [verb] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who have never voted before might think yes I suppose that 's how we change things . |
| 2 | ‘ It often happens [ as in dreams and fevers ] that we perceive things that do not exist . ’ |
| 3 | In this chapter , I have indicated the kinds of things we know about brains , and the kinds of questions we have to ask if we are to understand how we perceive things . |
| 4 | We perceive things as we know them to be , not necessarily as they are . |
| 5 | These ideas are , or are derived by ‘ abstraction ’ from , the ideas ( = feelings , sensation ) said to be caused in us when we perceive things , on the manna → gripings model for talk about the objects of perception . |
| 6 | 4 ) In several places it was felt that the paper provided further evidence of the gap that exists between how we perceive things and how our constituents see them who , for the most part see themselves as the ‘ money raisers ’ — a role they also fulfil for several other organisations as well . |
| 7 | Okay we started off and we was talking about the fact that when we perceive things they start off in origin as energy signals in the environment and we detect those changes in the energy and somewhere in the process they get converted into our experiences of perception . |
| 8 | ‘ Chesterfield worked hard but we made things easy for them with the goals we gave away . ’ |
| 9 | Erm well we sold things . |
| 10 | If we are conditioned by fear we make things worse . |
| 11 | ‘ I think it 's time we got things straight between us , ’ he said grimly . |
| 12 | ‘ All I can say about Chelsea is that Newcastle United would be a bigger club if we got things right here . ’ |
| 13 | Well , I do n't think there 's much more we can do here tonight , but before we wind things up , I think I 'd like a word with that lad upstairs . |
| 14 | Super jet , sixteen hundred , eighteen , Amazon , do we need things that big ? |
| 15 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 16 | One of the main reasons why we forget things so easily is that all too often we see but do not really observe . |
| 17 | Now , we 're working on language , now , but because a question turns up every year on paper one , to do with education , we 're going to be considering education , and we 're going to consider education in the broadest possible way , and that is , how do we know things . |
| 18 | Well , normally we expect things to go in straight lines . |
| 19 | What you may not expect however is that at Saab , although we build things to last , we do n't expect them to last indefinitely . |
| 20 | Will we be able to get in before the day to check up on what colour we want things and yo , that sort of thing , you know you just you know ? |
| 21 | We want things moving ! |
| 22 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 23 | But we tried things that we 'd done in theory . |
| 24 | ‘ We created things like the farmhouse salad carts , using fresh produce , while everybody else was buying in the frozen varieties . |
| 25 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 26 | The ways in which we say things convey as much as what we say . |
| 27 | Even though we say things , it[s just mouthing off like when you 're talking to the lads , showing off , I s'pose . |
| 28 | We say things such as " I repeat what I said earlier " , or " That is not what I meant " , or " I have heard that argument before " . |
| 29 | So quite obviously the how we say things is all to do with the voice is n't it ? |
| 30 | ‘ Before we say things we might regret . ’ |