Example sentences of "we [vb base] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of things were said when we broke up and perhaps we regret saying them . |
| 2 | ‘ We regret to have to inform you that a further breach has now come to our attention and we are instructed by our clients to write to you about it . |
| 3 | We regret to announce the death of a distinguished man of letters . |
| 4 | We regret to announce the death of Mabel Adams FHCIMA who died recently at the age of 92 . |
| 5 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 6 | In the early 1980s , Dan tried to trace his old crew and received this letter from the Veterans Administration , informing him ‘ We regret to advise you that our records reflect the deaths of three of your crew : — Edward C Chambers , July 31 , 1973 ; William F Mackowiak , November 10 , 1975 ; Charles J Wilson , January 2 , 1978 . |
| 7 | This commitment , and the overall pacifist , pro-feminist , libertarian , green and non-exploitative ethos we espouse has generally led to our expressed opinions on the Pembroke Ranges issue being greeted with scepticism and distrust by the climbing establishment . |
| 8 | The words of the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) , ’ If we change to win , we could change when we have won ’ , show that British people will not trust the Opposition with defence policy . |
| 9 | If we disbelieve do they cease to exist ? |
| 10 | We lay entwined on a secluded hillside . |
| 11 | Yes , one picture does come to mind : before I broke away we lay facing , learning each other 's features in this new light . |
| 12 | We lay coiled like snakes , listening to the wind gathering force to rage into a storm . |
| 13 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 14 | However , Moore 's claim deserves to be taken seriously by those who think that the objects we perceive exist just as we perceive them when unobserved . |
| 15 | When linguists talk of the goal of linguistic theory as being the construction of an account of a sound-meaning correspondence for the infinite set of sentences in any language , one might perhaps infer that such a grand theory would eo ipso give an account of at least the essentials of how we communicate using language . |
| 16 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 17 | Although it may fill both our physical and mental viewing frames , we remain detached from it and have not entered the cluster . |
| 18 | Cyrus we stand before your eternal dwelling to place to speak these solemn words ; sleep on in peace for ever , for we are awake and we remain to watch over your glorious heritage . |
| 19 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 20 | It becomes possible , if we remain committed to living and working with men , to identify the terms on which we shall participate and what re-negotiation must go on if these relationships are to be transformed . |
| 21 | We remain committed to that . |
| 22 | ‘ We remain committed to supporting the needs of blind people and our aim must be to achieve a fair system right across Cleveland . ’ |
| 23 | Without the will for self-examination and the desire to change ourselves , we can make no progress ; we remain stuck in our types , experiencing only what that type allows and learning nothing new about ourselves or life . |
| 24 | He is the player we bring to mind first when we ask ourselves what football looks like when we enjoy it most . ’ |
| 25 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 26 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 27 | We bring to bear on the various officers and employees and shareholders and others associated with the corporation our ordinary standards of personal responsibility . |
| 28 | I know it is n't easy but erm I think we should you know , try and we advertise starting at eight o'clock and very often there 's only Alan and I here at eight . |
| 29 | But the past conditional is a notoriously tricky area , even for mother-tongue speakers , and there 's no point in speculating on which way the final result might have gone if we wouldn't 've scored that first goal , Ron . |
| 30 | ‘ You made the condition that we dance according to the music , ’ he reminded her . |