Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we glissaded down the final snows to the hut , the summit of Mt Blanc was burnished by the setting sun and the Flammes de Pierre were flickering , true to their name . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ If we cut off the right hands of thieves in this country , we would be well off — because then there would be no burglaries . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We hope over the five years to make a significant impact into solving the area 's many problems , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 4 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 5 | As a last resort MOD might tell us if we filled in the right forms . |
| 6 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 7 | Though bone dry , they shone in an evening sun that dazzled us , as we linked up the infrequent holds . |
| 8 | We handed over the stamped forms , which he gave to the koko for safe keeping . |
| 9 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
| 10 | Next , we stack up the eight sets of five columns ( period/output/ res price/ σ/k); on top of each other to form a data matrix five columns wide and 64 rows long . |
| 11 | We crowed with pleasure as we rushed up the remaining feet to the top and , in the last dregs of daylight , hastened back across the lonely moor to the car , Mullion , and a well earned pint . |
| 12 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 13 | We sort out the free kicks and pay attention to specific tasks . ’ |
| 14 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
| 15 | We took up the lost threads of our writing together with even greater dedication . |
| 16 | Finally , we point out the main limitations of the theory and briefly introduce the more recent ‘ neo-classical ’ resurgence in the shape of ‘ monetarism ’ . |
| 17 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 18 | look at this traffic coming in now I think the way we did it , we marked down the three shops we wanted to do |
| 19 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 20 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 21 | With Domestic Factoring , we purchase your book debts on a continuous basis and provide four basic services : an immediate advance of up to 80% of the value of invoices ; credit management and sales ledger administration — we take over the time-consuming chores of sending out statements and chasing late payers ; credit protection — we can , if required , take 100% of the credit risk on agreed customers ; and facility for growth — our service can expand as your company grows . |
| 22 | ‘ We follow along the same lines as the department of paintings and the result will be a collection of sculpture … . enjoyable to view ’ , Curator-in-Chief Mr Gaborit said . |
| 23 | In this special feature we check out the latest treatments and appliances — from reflexology to electric razors . |
| 24 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 25 | Let us sum up the main points . |
| 26 | He gives us clues as to how to complete the jigsaw , but leaves us to fill in the missing pieces . |
| 27 | Naturally they are plotting to get us to take over the dangerous bits of the Front , and launch all the expensive attacks , and so on . |