Example sentences of "[noun] we [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 2 | It 's the spiel we give out to the tourists if they happen to capture one of us when they 're wandering round the grounds . |
| 3 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 4 | Is it more successful in reducing lead times ? ( a question we take up in the following section ) |
| 5 | The moment we walk out into the sun to play we all break out into a heavy sweat . |
| 6 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 7 | and I do n't know if we want to agree to that straightaway in which case we get on to the next item . |
| 8 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 9 | The next day we drive up into the hills two hours from Kingston to see Bob 's tomb in his village birthplace of Nine Miles , St Ann 's parish . |
| 10 | Each day we look out for the postman — but so far there 's been nothing . |
| 11 | At nine o'clock that night we set out in the pouring rain , our car packed with people and stores of food , picking our way through lorries , mules and men on foot . |
| 12 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 13 | For holidays we fall in with the wishes of particular consultants . |
| 14 | Finally , it is possible that tighter control of restrictive practices agreements between firms is one of the factors that provide an incentive for mergers , a subject we take up in the next section . |
| 15 | ‘ ALTHOUGH the contribution of the world we live in to the levels of risk is most obvious for accidents , developments in medical thinking throughout the last two centuries have indicated how by modifying the way we live — originally through general improvements in diet and hygiene , more recently through changes in education and social welfare — we can contribute substantially to prolongation of healthy life or its reduction by increasing smoke pollution and cigarette consumption ’ . |
| 16 | At yet another , we will never get there since a stream of tendency has been caught and held in new-visioned ( as opposed to far-sighted ) iconic stasis , and there can be no movement on out of the world we live in into the book we read . |
| 17 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 18 | But if we go in the park she can run more , or in the summer we go down by the old railway track do n't we ? |
| 19 | I do n't know how much pressure we put on for the police to get off their butts and do something . |
| 20 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 21 | Soon after breakfast we set off into the jungle . |
| 22 | There are net nowhere where we are using both one-off and fortuitous savings in certain budget heads to meet unavoidable expenditure we come on within the year , and therefore keep within the Committee 's overall cash limit for the year . |
| 23 | The men and women we read about in the Bible have aspirations and failings with which we easily identify , and even the heroes of Scripture are displayed in the cold light of truth . |
| 24 | In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’ |
| 25 | We had just such a function there last Saturday , where the consensus was that making a living was getting a bit easier , that the economy was startling to move forward , and that , by the time we get round to the season of the darling buds of May , the prospects for Her Majesty 's Government might well be ’ perfick , just perfick ’ . |
| 26 | We have n't got enough Nice to get some work started on the eighth floor because of the different activities But then again with the activities that are carrying on on the seventh floor we ca n't By the time we get round to the ninth pretty desperate . |
| 27 | The difference in our height changes between the time we get up in the morning and the time we go to bed at night . |
| 28 | By the time we get back to the tent Stig is limping badly and when Odd-Knut looks he finds he is bleeding profusely . |
| 29 | Our 1963 Herald 12/50 was keen to get going , and at the allotted time we set off through the Borders and towards North Yorkshire . |
| 30 | And therefore by a mighty feat of arithmetic we come up with the figure of what , one hundred and twenty eight go for the system by thirds . |