Example sentences of "and we [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are constantly approached by people who want our help , and we respond in the best way we can . |
| 2 | When the complexities of circumstance defeat analysis , and we grope for the best prediction or choice attainable , we do not doubt that there is a better founded prediction or better informed choice which no one perhaps will be lucky enough to hit on . |
| 3 | And we go to the Mediterranean and North Africa . |
| 4 | " It has been dinned into the ears of our members without hesitation or scruple , and we repeat with the greatest force at our command that seamen , to whatever class they may belong , are false to themselves , to their cause and to their country in taking any course that may , even in the smallest degree , weaken the hands of those responsible for the conduct of the present campaign against the most ignoble foe that it has ever become Britain 's duty to tackle " . |
| 5 | But if the music changes , our attention is immediately alerted , and we listen to the new message with pleasure . |
| 6 | And we stay in the same place ! |
| 7 | After I 've stopped chucking and coughing they restart the video and we cut to the other scene and the tall hospital chair and the little guy again with empty eyes and McDunn says his bit about Persistent Vegetative State . |
| 8 | Thirdly , we 're trying to make sure that children who can best benefit by foster care , er do get foster parents , and we 've had a big er initiative this last twelve months , you probably know about , and that 's paying off , and we hope in the future only children going into residential homes who need residential care will get there . |
| 9 | And we hear for the first time of permanent salaried architects . |
| 10 | There 's no hanging about here tonight it 's straight into the action from all the weekend and we start with the big match at Filbert Street , Leicester City against Nottingham Forest . |
| 11 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 12 | It 's a resource erm that is needed in order to provide children with a whole variety of learning problems with specialized teaching , with specialized education , and we think in the Labour group that it is a tragedy that those needs are not going to be recognised . |
| 13 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |
| 14 | Erm again for those people have to be ov over fifty years of age and we operate in the maximum enhancement er provision . |
| 15 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 16 | Staff numbers statement erm and , and we look at the right hand column , you will find that we have a hundred and thirty nine fee earning people , and fifty eight support . |
| 17 | ‘ We will continue … to pursue steadily the path of co-operation with China and we look to the Chinese side to do the same . |
| 18 | Mrs Browning likes to have me with her now , no other person will do , and we talk of the old days and Miss Henrietta slipping off to Regent 's Park to walk with Mr Surtees Cook and the squeezes she loved to hold in Wimpole Street when her father was away . |
| 19 | You know and I and I 've only recently really come to terms with how much tha those early songs were part of people 's upbringing and because of Love Hurts and everything people come up to me a lot in the street and we talk about the sixties and everything . |
| 20 | Susanna still comes to visit me sometimes , and we talk about the old days . |