Example sentences of "we [verb] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 3 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 4 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 5 | ‘ We clustered at the narrow doorway , resting our useless hands upon our heads as substitutes for steel helmets . |
| 6 | In Fig. 2 we show at the upper right a typical fragment of foveal retina from one of our preparations . |
| 7 | We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha . |
| 8 | Food Giant claims we 're all spending far more than we need to when we shop at the well-known supermarkets . |
| 9 | That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government . |
| 10 | However , we should not do that if we joined at the wrong exchange rate — as happened , as the hon. Member for Newham , North-East ( Mr. Leighton ) explained , with eastern Germany . |
| 11 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 12 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 13 | We finished just before we arrived at the main gate of the chateau . |
| 14 | We arrived at the little house in the evening and already there were a few people there . |
| 15 | The BX 4x4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had , reluctantly , to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 16 | The BX 4×4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had reluctantly to admit that it was time to head for home . |
| 17 | We arrived at the French Riviera town of Frejus after an overnight journey on the Motorail . |
| 18 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
| 19 | This month we look at the new arrangements for meeting the costs of residential care places . |
| 20 | Can individuals and the community serve without spiritual values What about that as a starter before we look at the other questions , then . |
| 21 | If we look at the internal organs there is not much to distinguish a chimpanzee 's heart or liver from our own . |
| 22 | However , if we look at the remaining 20% of sessions we find that they fall into two classes . |
| 23 | Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen . |
| 24 | I think it 's also very relevant that we look at the real threats that are facing the N H S. |
| 25 | They should be borne in mind as we look at the final symptom of this ‘ strange rise ’ : the dispersal of the libraries , and the libraries themselves caught in this downward spiral . |
| 26 | This idea links closely both to Donaldson 's notion of embedded and disembedded thought and to Vygotsky 's demand that we look at the total context in which information is exchanged and understood . |
| 27 | If we look at the corresponding figures for murders ( which were much less likely to have been concealed ) , there is no sign of any change due to X. This is an example of an artefact due to change in instrumentation ( more complete recording , in this case ) . |
| 28 | The peril of getting caught in an information loop is made plain if we look at the following facts . |
| 29 | When we look at the Chief Executives Department , the increase there is what , six point six per cent overall . |
| 30 | When we look at the vast evidence of the relations of cultural production , in so many different societies and historical periods , it is clear that it would be unwise to adopt , as our first theoretical construct , some universal or general explanatory scheme of the necessary relations between ‘ culture ’ and ‘ society ’ . |