Example sentences of "we do [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We do bits together whenever we get the chance and ( someday ) will do a brand new one .
2 We do challenges for our necker to go with our Brownie uniform .
3 We do functions mostly , college balls and barbecues and company outings and that .
4 The way we do things , you need your knife and fork to put the sauce on the meat or you have n't got the flavours .
5 They spend more and more time trying to study how we work and how we do things .
6 Sometimes she wants to do things on her own , but most times we do things together — you know , like going to the swimming baths or going shopping and stuff like that .
7 When we do things by habit we do not have to think about them , so there is no cause for anxiety .
8 One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things .
9 We do things like this because we have always done it that way .
10 From Freud , to the behaviourists , to the new fangled cognitivists , psychologists share the belief that we do things essentially for ourselves .
11 Being fearless is like being immune to pain : it means we do things which others , in their right minds , would never consider .
12 The importance of knowing why we do things and not just what to do has altered many of the concepts and shattered many long held perceptions about the effectiveness and quality of care we give to patients .
13 We do things by consensus as much as possible , and you learn by taking notice of your artists .
14 Cray Research Inc says it could sell 30 to 40 massively parallel systems in 1994 ‘ if we do things correctly ’ : Derek Robb , director of sales , told Reuter that Cray 's massively parallel systems cost several million dollars at the low end , and run up to the multi-millions ; they link together hundreds or thousands of Alpha RISC processors and in 1994 , Robb said , he ‘ could see ’ its parallel revenues reaching 25% of the Cray total ; at the very top end , customers ' budgets are now topping out at about $50m to $60m , he said , meaning the most processors it would likely offer on its T3D system is 2,048 .
15 So the , the groups are very important though , because the groups do a great deal of the work for Amnesty , cos Amnesty 's different from many organisations erm in that er , what the groups do , particularly the letter writing erm , helps to make the organisation work , it 's not just a matter of raising money , we do things to , to fund raise or two , er have a proper publicity erm , the le the letters we write for prisoners and helps Amnesty to do it 's work and not many other organisations operate like that .
16 I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory .
17 ‘ Because that 's the way we do things , out here . ’
18 We do things different , boys — and do things better .
19 Handy sums up ‘ culture ’ as ‘ that 's the way we do things round here ’ .
20 We Do you know when we start doing something , we 'll do it and even if we do things different gon na say ?
21 That 's not the way we do things here — you draft the bills and we work them over ’ ( Mullen , 1976 , p. 60 ) .
22 Past values and beliefs are transmitted to new members through formal induction programmes and informal working practices epitomised in such phrases as : ‘ We do things this way in this office ’ .
23 Er school liaison , er we do things like arrange talks to different community groups , put on shows and displays .
24 If we 're talking about robots and regimentation , I reckon the Japanese approach to production is indeed alien to the way we do things over here .
25 ‘ It is a spin-off from the Congo slimhole project and is all about re-engineering the way we do things in order to become more efficient . ’
26 We recognised there was a need to ensure quality and consistency in everything we did , to be able to point out to our customers how we do things , and where necessary to be audited on these procedures .
27 Many of these can be built into the way we do things in our office , but some could have a much wider impact .
28 improving the way we do things
29 We think we do things for ourselves and all we do is live in odd corners of their world — under their floors , stealing things .
30 Yeah , like so many industries we 're competing on good service are n't we and if we do things right it does convey a very professional image of C U to , to , to the company , to the , not to the company , to the , to the market place .
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