Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're more or less where we left off last November . |
| 2 | We do n't you know we 've got clubs still waiting that we signed up last year . |
| 3 | One idea is that we pick up all sorts of information during our waking hours without being consciously aware that we are doing so ; the function of dreaming is to allow our brain to process all this information at the unconscious level . |
| 4 | I suggest that we proceed along those lines and look for the most economic way to alleviate my constituents ' problems while not doing too much damage to my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 5 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 6 | We look forward to an hour 's drive to an appointment , because it 's then that we dust off American Pie or Band On The Run or Led Zeppelin II or London Calling and snap it into our car 's entertainment system . |
| 7 | Can I give you a bit of something that we picked up last week that may be of some benefit to you ? |
| 8 | He clenched his fist and added : ‘ If other people take no notice , if we achieve nothing , than we put in more engagement , we work more hard towards what we want ! ’ |
| 9 | We did , we did , sort of , with only the horses , erm , so we lost out that way . |
| 10 | ‘ So we build up individual patterns of preferred activities which an interviewer , trained to look for them , can detect . ’ |
| 11 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 12 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 13 | We were at at there , and I went with er with my father er on a Friday and we came back that night . |
| 14 | He and the policeman took me to a lift and we went down many floors . |
| 15 | And he said good , and here 's ours , and we passed them along the table , and we wrote down two point six , I said excuse me , could I just have that back , there 's a slight typing error , excuse me , sorry twenty-two per cent . |
| 16 | I followed him , gratefully , and we wandered down some backstairs and out on to another floor just as Ray Gelato and his Giants of Jive were starting up . |
| 17 | We continue on heading until we pick up another waypoint , the particular shape of a section of the B1052 , where a very sharp right-hand bend is followed almost immediately by a minor road off to the east and a small hamlet , Brinkley , further north ( J ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I think they 'd be very unhappy if we splashed out excessive money before settling our debts . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think they 'd be very unhappy if we splashed out excessive money before settling our debts . |
| 20 | If we come back next year , the whole of Tokyo will be scratching itself to death . ’ |
| 21 | I also switched on the echo-sounder and adjusted it to ‘ bleep ’ if we passed over any fish — such are the benefits of modern technology ! |
| 22 | ‘ Look , if we turn along this path we come to the most celebrated tree in the forest — the Major Oak . |
| 23 | If we take down that tree there and this one here … ’ |
| 24 | We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm . |
| 25 | With our current facilities we can do a set number of coronary artery bypass graft operations in any period , and thus if we operate on more patients from one district by definition we operate on fewer patients from another . |
| 26 | If I touched your arm , if we smiled at one another , if we talked about that day and the rainstorm and the shock of the butts recoiling against our cheeks and Halliday dead on the moor . |
| 27 | We have several capital projects which will take us into new and exciting areas and if we ride out this recession better than others we will have the opportunity to make further acquisitions to expand our core activities . |
| 28 | Now , if we think along these lines then we will be sorely tempted to say that although the child does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ , there is something else he must observe , something inner and private , a ‘ feeling ’ he has somehow identified as a liking-Auntie-Kate feeling . |
| 29 | Roughing it Many of us believe our skin will look better if we slough off dead cells by using a facial scrub . |
| 30 | Then occasionally when we had houses broken into and so on , if it was thought that a tramp could have been responsible , it used to be a great help if we gave out nine tickets for tramps and only eight of the nine were admitted to the casual ward , then we should clamp down of course on the one who failed to turn up . |