Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 2 | We bring to bear on the various officers and employees and shareholders and others associated with the corporation our ordinary standards of personal responsibility . |
| 3 | Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person . |
| 4 | In practice , the main background source that we sought to reject from the refluxed food signal was as a result of the large pool of activity in the stomach . |
| 5 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 6 | When we are anxious — and we may well be anxious about trying something new — we tend to stick with the familiar and the tried and tested . |
| 7 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 8 | Much is lost in Bible reading if we forget to look beyond the substitute word to the personal , intimate name of God himself . |
| 9 | " We want to stop at the Bourgeois Gentilhomme , " she said , with the remnants of the French accent the nuns had carefully taught her . |
| 10 | The reason is that we want to deal with the Keynesian model in greater detail and derive policy implications from it . |
| 11 | Ah , well , we want to say at the bottom items one five seven and twenty four are two piece construction . |
| 12 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
| 13 | Without exception every single one of them in that room , and I invited every single one from the whole of my constituency , said , we want to stay in the National Health Service . |
| 14 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 15 | But what we want to know from the right honourable lady what we want to know from the right honourable lady is when they will come clean about the public spending policies that will put taxes in this country up . |
| 16 | However , since much of the research which we want to discuss in the following section is concerned with the formulation of sentences , we will use this term in order to avoid confusion . |
| 17 | We learnt to swim in the opaque water with our little slips sewn up half way seamwise . |
| 18 | We have launched Omega products into Sweden where we hope to build on the tremendous success we have had in Norway . |
| 19 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 20 | And what changes can we expect to see during the coming year ? |
| 21 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 22 | Each day so far we 'd driven into the left rough and finished up taking bogey-fives . |
| 23 | When we link reasoning to the above proposals this is what we get : |
| 24 | However , the basic grammatical distinctions here are the categories of first , second and third person , If we were producing a Componential analysis ( for which see Lyons , 1968 : 470-81 ) of Pronominal systems , the features that we seem to need for the known systems would crucially include : for first person , speaker inclusion ( + 5 ) ; for second person , addressee inclusion ( + A ) ; and for third Person , speaker and addressee exclusion ( - S , A ) ( see Burling , 1970 : 14-17 ; Ingram , 1978 ) . |
| 25 | We seem to specialize in the following areas : paperwork , gerontology , maladies of the central nervous system , and what they call talkdown . |
| 26 | And had n't we got rid of the American troops from Vietnam ? |
| 27 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 28 | ‘ Working with those people was a great education ’ , he says , as we begin scrambling over the damp boulders on the floor of the ghyll . |
| 29 | Now , however , I have grave misgivings as we begin to hear from the European Community more and more talk about a federal Europe and closer political integration . |
| 30 | We can delay cashing orders whenever the need arises and we have complete control over them and how much we save depending on the particular needs of the children at a particular time . |