Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In fact — and this is going to blow your socks off if you 've never thought about it before — God works out how much we love him by the way we treat other people ( including teachers ) .
2 If only we had something of the social sense they had in Germany , we might manage to give our young people the experiences they ought to have … [ in Germany ] the rambling movement … [ has ] reached enormous proportions — 2,500 hostels provide shelter for 6d per night … .
3 So we take her onto the
4 so we keep it in a canvas jacket
5 So we had our in the morning .
6 Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ?
7 So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody .
8 Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house .
9 But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track .
10 Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress .
11 So we busy ourselves about the house or go on holiday in much the same way as we do our jobs .
12 Together we assisted him into the taxi .
13 Thus we welcome you to the 1992 Festival programme !
14 I am not going to write to the Colleges themselves one week with bureaucratic non-talk and then come into the clear the following week … if there is going to be an outburst I believe the sooner we get it over the better .
15 Once we got it off we showed him around the fire appliances and he went away happy , ’ said John .
16 Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic .
17 Eventually we dragged it to the waterfall and flung it in .
18 ‘ Turned out we knew everybody in the audience as well !
19 Back , back we find ourselves in the frustrating and confusing conceptual warp .
20 So now we wrap her in a tea towel so you know her hands are under cover .
21 Exactly yeah and then when you can do that when you can balance on one leg now we try it with the ball and see if we can kick it and then kick it harder and make it go exactly where you want to .
22 They were speaking in favour of it , now here he comes along er and er we we 're I I find myself , regrettable I think because er er his er a minister very well informed in these areas with er who made in those committees a very powerful and effective contribution , now we find ourselves on the er opposite side but I have to say now that we are on opposite side that what is introducing today er is really er too little er and far too er too too late .
23 Now we place him in a house .
24 Television at home came later ; for now we watch it in the Italian cafe , where the price of a penny ice lolly opens the dusty chenille curtain and we can join the other children huddled in the darkness in front of the flickering screen in the corner .
25 A favourite quote was from County Securities : ‘ We got to the stage in our institutional room where headhunters came on the phone so often we put them over the loudhailer because it was such a huge joke . ’
26 ‘ You know perfectly well we put them in the curry . ’
27 Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife .
28 Well we had it in the evening .
29 Yes , er , no , yonks and yonks , yonks , yonks , yonks ago we had one for a it 's from them , absolutely ages ago So that 's that lot
30 UNTIL ten days ago we knew nothing of the Hartlepool Vinegar Incident , and even then we knew nothing much .
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