Example sentences of "[subord] we [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another area is that of foregrounding , where we draw on the terminology of traditional poetics ( " metaphor " , " metonymy " , onomatopoeia " , etc ) . |
| 2 | Her girlfriend , Josephine , does not take to the water , so Kelly and I go in alone with Simone , treading in unison till the chill is mellowed , and swim to the deep end where we cling to the buoy and discuss other people . |
| 3 | Here we present a simple hierarchical model which also relaxes the assumptions of constant returns to scale and perfect competition , although we revert to the assumption of a single factor , labour , which is taken as the numeraire . |
| 4 | but now this last few years we , it 's a lot warmer winter than we , than we remember at the beginning |
| 5 | We will know by the first of April this year rather more than we know at the moment but you 're right it can go up and down , but there are lots of budgets in Social Services which are subject to this and it 's part of our job to try and manage that during the course of the year . |
| 6 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 7 | We should be looking to educate and train all people a lot more than we do at the moment where driving is concerned , so that from the very moment you pass your test you can feel confident , other people can feel confident and we can all have confidence on the road . |
| 8 | We know much more about the state of Chelsea 's teeth than we do about the state of the nation . |
| 9 | The eighties remains an enigma — already we know more about the rise of the radical new Right than we do about the demise of the old Left . |
| 10 | Sir Patrick said : ‘ There is in my belief , and in my experience , a profound desire amongst everyday people in Northern Ireland , right across the community , that the politicians should resume talks , because there is a recognition that there has to be a way of securing a less antagonist way of living in a divided society than we have at the moment . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Does that mean we shall see a great deal more of each other than we have in the past ? ’ she asked . |
| 12 | Life is essentially energy — so we return to the idea that ALL is ONE . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah , so we come to the purpose of the exercise ? |
| 14 | The usual convention is to choose the reference point at infinity and choose the corresponding potential ( a ) = 0 , so we get for the potential of a point charge |
| 15 | ‘ OK , people , ’ said Odell , ‘ so we go with the deal . |
| 16 | and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing |
| 17 | As we might speak of the culture of the Hebrides , or as W. H. Rivers wrote of the culture of Melanesia , so we speak of the culture of the European West to describe a set of outlooks , aims and ways of life , which has a history in the past of Europe and has spread to other parts of the world . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll talk about anything , ’ he drawls , so we talk about the strangeness of early Big Black — drum machines before they were sexy , lyrics about death , lust and decay ( generally in the same verse ) , and Albini 's acid guitar . |
| 19 | PAMELA : But it was the custom of old , of all good wives to be nurse to their own children , so we read in the Scripture . |
| 20 | That 's that 's like erm when we had a new girl once we put on the card BANW banw . |
| 21 | which we need to be and once we get into the rhythm I 'm sure it 'll all be a lot easier but you seem to have a calmness about your how you speak which is good and you know I 'm sure I 'll go to pieces but erm yeah it was just , and what I 've picked up on as you say where it 's er how did you come to Friends Provident bum de bum de bum , we 're going through erm a structured erm spiel if you like and then they 're saying well I do n't really wan na give you any you know , recommendations at this moment and erm what we should do there is , is I suppose apack that is n't it ? |
| 22 | So do we phone them once we get to the hotel or do they contact us ? |
| 23 | ‘ Once we get to the sun and people start to relax and unwind . |
| 24 | ‘ Once we get to the town , there 's bound to be air-conditioning in the hotel . |
| 25 | The criteria of sameness and difference offer few ways of separating out peoples once we rise above the level of locality . |
| 26 | We begin paying income tax at 25 per cent once we move into the tax bracket . |
| 27 | It is also suggested that , provided we plunge below the surface of these theories , certain important links between them may be revealed . |
| 28 | We have a rough idea ( although we may be mistaken ) of the rate at which new stars form ; we suspect that many , if not most , of them have planets — and so on until we come to the question about how long our ‘ ideal ’ technological civilization might expect to endure , to which any answer must be the most unfounded of guesses . |
| 29 | Got a second tomorrow , so that 's seven the whole bit the whole week is all about that until we get to the presentation presentations , what does he mean by presentations ? |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't you want to wait until we get to the seaside ? |