Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode to the fourth floor , the doors slid open , we regarded each other in silence from our chosen corners , the doors slid to , and by the time we returned to the ground floor divorce was forgotten and the marriage reconsummated . |
| 2 | I ca n't remember it all , but I think we rode along the old railway line . ’ |
| 3 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
| 4 | Then we launch into the unknown future . |
| 5 | In practice we distinguish between the external cause of a rhythm , which is caused by our life-style or environment , and another internal cause , which we might say is due to a clock within our body . |
| 6 | Sipping lager , we gazed at the front-page face of a dour middle-aged nurse who had been sacked for making porno movies on hospital premises . |
| 7 | But I will plan ahead , even if we crash into the Fourth Division . |
| 8 | The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out . |
| 9 | As Dr Reading told BBC WILDLIFE : ‘ We met at the first World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury in 1989 , and subsequently arranged to co-ordinate the two projects . ’ |
| 10 | We met for the first time just two days before departure and accepted a murderous schedule of four games in 10 days , before opening against the New Zealand provincial champions just two days after a 25 hour journey to Dunedin . |
| 11 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 12 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 13 | We met in the early morning . |
| 14 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 15 | We met in the odd foursome and it did n't really work out . |
| 16 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 17 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 18 | Although all modem workers ' movements have developed strategies comprising both labour market and political components how can we explain within the European context the greater emphasis upon the achievement of radical change in the structure of society by French and Italian unions , whose thrust ( certainly up to the late 1960s ) has been at least as much ideological and political as industrial , in comparison with West German or British unions ? |
| 19 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 20 | We rippled on the yellow sheet , the counterpane — and us — long gone . |
| 21 | The colonel gave me a friendly pat on the shoulder , and we made for the outside world again . |
| 22 | We made for the top front of the vehicle , as this provided the best all-round view . |
| 23 | The main assessments we made about the structural situation of the economy and the direction of change needed for both the economy and society have been verified . |
| 24 | The weather is glorious , so we trot through the suburban roads and leafy lanes , and find a hitherto undiscovered park . |
| 25 | " 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 " . |
| 26 | An approximation we make about the actual behaviour enables us to model this behaviour in a dynamic framework without complicating the estimation . |
| 27 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 28 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 29 | I am afraid that the forecasts we produced under the old regime are now too optimistic . |
| 30 | The information that the Departments have presented to us on which to er respond to the consultation has n't even been very and indeed when we requested after the first round of consultation to know the existing number of lines on which they placed er their , their recommendations . |