Example sentences of "[subord] we [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where we stopped at the junction . ’
2 but now this last few years we , it 's a lot warmer winter than we , than we remember at the beginning
3 After the visit Avice said that " finding a solution will take longer than we thought at the end of last year " .
4 We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … .
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 It was thought to be efficient to increase the yield to produce more than we need at a price which is more than we can pay and then dump the surplus on the world market , leaving the farmer with nothing .
9 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 . ’
10 It was too late to go to the campsite , or even to get a bus out of town , so we stopped at a hotel where they worried about us and charged too much for Coke .
11 For many of us , Betty Jackson 's clothes are simply too expensive so we jumped at the chance to feature the latest Betty Jackson Vogue patterns .
12 Once we arrived at the house she asked us whether we would go and pick up someone else from the doctor 's surgery who she worked with .
13 Cos we lived at the top of the second hill , opposite erm Doctor s er house , the famous eye surgeon .
14 The restaurant was still standing but I suspected some unpleasantness had taken place as neither of them said a word until we arrived at the hospital again .
15 And let's face it , ’ he added with a malicious smile while he examined his fingernails , ‘ with a government like we have at the moment we 're encouraged to do so .
16 ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top .
17 If we start at the top
18 If we start at the top instead of the bottom it 'd be a bloody sight more efficient .
19 If we play at the level we have produced against the provinces we are not going to win . ’
20 If we look at a relationship or any type of communication as a situation where somebody 's going to win and somebody 's going to lose there 's not gon na be much chance of two people working together on that so what happens is somebody 's got to lose .
21 If we look at a relationship or any type of commu mean taking a bit of a different look at things thinking well what is it that this person wants from me and what is it that I want from this person ?
22 In fact , if we look at a conversation like Conversation B or Conversation D , where all the participants are British-born and in their late teens or twenties , it is most often the case that a Creole utterance does not receive a Creole response .
23 If we look at an array of words as a self-referential order , we may abstract certain regularities , such as rules of grammar , sentence construction , statistics on the relative frequencies of various letters , words , etc .
24 If we look at the state of our imaginative literature , we must observe in it a grossness , even an indecency of conception , and an inflowing tide of slang and vulgarity and other forms of ugliness which tend to corrupt imagination and barbarize language .
25 If we look at the music Elvis produced throughout his career , we find confirmation that the ‘ decline-and-fall ’ view will not stand up .
26 If we look at the range of statements about English teaching in books written before our Report we see how broad the subject is .
27 If we look at the history of the world , it seems surprising that love is included .
28 If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform .
29 If we look at the budget on page 147 in percentage terms then it breaks down as follows :
30 After all , if we look at the inheritance of many genetic characters such as human height or skin-colouring , it does not look like the work of indivisible and unblendable genes .
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