Example sentences of "we [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
| 32 | We rushed him to the veterinary hospital , where he was given an antidote which should have worked within 20 minutes . |
| 33 | However , as we know them in the modern world , there are virtually no middle classes in 1700 . |
| 34 | Although there were thousands of lesser and hundreds of brown noddies on Cousin in October , it can not be easy to assess the population size , because with no positive ‘ summer season ’ as we know it in the temperate zones , many birds can be found breeding almost throughout the year . |
| 35 | I am not going to write to the Colleges themselves one week with bureaucratic non-talk and then come into the clear the following week … if there is going to be an outburst I believe the sooner we get it over the better . |
| 36 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 37 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 38 | In our first encounter with Satan we find him within the burning lake of Hell , having fallen from such a great height to such a great depth and now engulfed in fire , licked by flames , seemingly in pain , according to Milton 's narration , yet still able to speak with an uncanny strength and courage against ‘ the potent Victor ’ ( I. 95 ) . |
| 39 | Yes I leave on the eleventh of March so can we have it on the eight of March ? |
| 40 | Well could we have it on the sixth and change the committee day ? . |
| 41 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 42 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
| 43 | Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ? |
| 44 | But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily ! |
| 45 | Now I would do it slightly differently , I mean I would say that we want you to , we invite you to the next round of our recruitment thing , but there i , er have no decision has yet been taken as to how many if any appointments will actually be made . |
| 46 | So — shall we split them into the two groups straight away , Liz ? |
| 47 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 48 | It did n't , we took it in the front room |
| 49 | Then [ by the given property of U ] t — 1 + 1 ε U. That is t ε U. But t ε T [ we chose it as the least element of T ] and so unc a contradiction . |
| 50 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
| 51 | If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up . |
| 52 | Heavenly father , we praise you as the living God and thank you that you have called us to look to the growth of your church in this parish ; we thank you for those who have worked to help plan the proposed church building ; we especially pray for John Taylor , our architect , and the city council planners and planning committee . |
| 53 | We did it on the sloping lid of a locker , our jeans and knickers round our ankles . |
| 54 | yeah we did it on the same night . |
| 55 | Well , I mean , if we , if we did it with the free ferry , and there 's a possibility we might be able to get fairly cheap accommodation if we drove over there and stayed . |
| 56 | ‘ Yes , we did it in the Fourth . |
| 57 | When we 're using the fax facility and we get a series of policy numbers and a problem coming through to us erm that 's not so bad cos that 's being amalgamated by the branch secretaries , when it 's going back , and we do it on the same one single fax going back , they 're sitting there snipping up individual replies , you know putting individual replies into consultants ' baskets unless they photocopy the whole sheet in which case they 've got a confidentiality problem . |
| 58 | Okay , if we do it to the fourteenth of the second ninety four , er and then that 'd come up , I can tell you what we cos Peter 's just is halfway through it with Well I say halfway through it . |
| 59 | Right , colleagues , we 're now going to the Energy and Utilities debate and er I 'd like to propose that we do it in the following fashion . |
| 60 | We do it in the same spirit in which in Pilgrim 's Progress John Bunyan 's Christian and Hopeful erected a sign to keep other pilgrims from the hands of Giant Despair . |