Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and I have known God 's strength and grace for the many tasks we have been involved in as Crossroads staff , and for Jack the difference is that we work a six and sometimes seven day week and we 're open for business outside office hours ! |
| 2 | I would n't disagree with Mr in what he said about the more cuts we have the better it looks and so it stands to reason it 's a question of cost . |
| 3 | Liz , from King 's Lynn , Norfolk , said : ‘ I am just sorry that families we know could be going through the same feelings we had when our men left for the Gulf . |
| 4 | After a few moments we realize why . |
| 5 | After a few minutes we watched them crossing the field , alongside the hedgerow . |
| 6 | Yeah , erm when we 're up the farm when er , after a few days we put the feed in them they smell . |
| 7 | Each visit guaranteed he would leave behind some of his property and after a few weeks we 'd accumulated his record player , eight boxes of books and his Rupert Bear hot-water bottle . |
| 8 | Of the many exercises we took part in during the course , this was in fact one which members of the group remembered most clearly . |
| 9 | These are some of the many exchanges we have had this year with lawyers from overseas . |
| 10 | I blush in light of the many times we have floundered recently , not to mention my straying . |
| 11 | They were typical of the many Europeans we met who were tired of conventional holidays . |
| 12 | It has been proved that even a short stay helps not only the carers , but the patients , who greatly benefit from a change of scenery and the use of the many facilities we have here . ’ |
| 13 | This behaviour is typical of the several meals we have investigated using scintigraphic techniques , and shows that it represents a physiological relevant test meal . |
| 14 | It is one of the several subcultures we learned from our colonial teachers . |
| 15 | Well I would n't worry too much about cramming it all together tightly because it 's erm one of the few things we 've still got a budget for is photocopying student questionnaires so you m you know , you might as well take advantage of that , it does n't erm it does n't cost you anything and the actual difference it makes to the university and to erm world resources is very slight indeed I think |
| 16 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
| 17 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
| 18 | The Turner Prize is therefore one of the few ways we have of acknowledging the contribution the visual arts play in our culture . |
| 19 | It is no longer the kiss of death to an actor ( watch this space ) , and it 's one of the few ways we have of paying the school fees on a regular basis . |
| 20 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 21 | Lash and Urry are amongst the few commentators we have reviewed who recognise that the middle classes are those best able to indulge in , and benefit by , this emergent form of culture . |
| 22 | For a few minutes we said nothing . |
| 23 | For a few minutes we fought wildly . |
| 24 | For a few minutes we slipped into the hut . |
| 25 | For a few minutes we watched a tree-creeper working his way up the trunk of a tree looking for grubs until Bill the dog , crashing through the undergrowth sniffing for smells , frightened him off . |
| 26 | for a few days we took him up here and all up there ! |
| 27 | Cases like this , along with the many reports we read about innocent parents accused by the social services of child abuse , make parents frightened to lay a single finger on their children . |
| 28 | erm Sadly it wo n't be with the same riders we had last year , but the riders we 've brought in I 'm sure will erm , under the forty points erm give us a good team . |
| 29 | From the same papyri we learn that the Ptolemies had picked up the well-known Sheikh of Transjordan , Tobiah , to command the military settlers in his territory . |
| 30 | If then any acts of animals are analogous to human acts and spring from the same principles we have duties towards the animals because thus we cultivate the corresponding duties towards human beings . |