Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 2 | I was beginning to become impatient as we lay about on the sand for several hours waiting our turn to go aboard one of the tank-landing craft , after it had discharged its cargo . |
| 3 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 4 | We are taken through the political and social development of a country which the US regards as its gateway to South America — and we wind up in a situation little different from the past in which an elite group monopolized economic and political power . |
| 5 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 6 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't suppose we sit out in the sun above twice a year . |
| 8 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 9 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 10 | We head back to the apartment only when the day folds in around us for good . |
| 11 | We gear up amongst the debris of ascents earlier in the week , thankful that we 're first to the route today . |
| 12 | The moment we walk out into the sun to play we all break out into a heavy sweat . |
| 13 | When we walk out of the forest into the candlelights of the lodge , the forest moves into our spaces like the sea into scoops of sand . |
| 14 | We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside . |
| 15 | We walk back through the park and disperse : tonight they 're going to a party , it 's Paul from The Soup Dragons ’ birthday . |
| 16 | He laughs again , and as the light is fading we walk back to the village , past small boys running hurdy-gurdies ; he teaching me plant names for which I can find no translation . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd just like you to understand the problems we have … we do the best we can , ’ sighs Soliz as we walk back to the bus stop . |
| 18 | From the history of man in general we focus down to the story of a single individual , Abraham , and his descendants . |
| 19 | The French are just laughing at us as we stumble around in a fog . ’ |
| 20 | We taxi on to the runway , midday on the murder mile , to fly to the capital of the New United States Of Europe . |
| 21 | Now , in the twilight of the 20th century , is the time to re-establish our commitment to the earth and embark on a new decade of environmentalism as we count down toward the year 2000 . |
| 22 | The doctors said that he would have bled to death at a lower altitude and I 'm sure this is so , because as we let down over the Channel his bleeding started again . |
| 23 | We cut down to the riverbank before we reached them and walked along the water 's edge out of sight of the buildings above . |
| 24 | Then we cut back to the newsreader . |
| 25 | I think that normally there is a cheque sent through with the notification , which we put in against the COUP 's fees code , but there is n't one this time . |
| 26 | If we hold on to the suffering of those nearest to us , we may not be strong enough to offer any real help by lifting them from whatever is affecting them . |
| 27 | For the implication of his theory of power is that if we break out of the regime of sexuality then power will play through a new series of discourses . |
| 28 | With Nathan on board my dogs move more slowly , and we trail off from the others as we climb up above the tree line . |
| 29 | Then when we meet up with the copter he 'll take the mail out . |
| 30 | Yeah , ah , we meet up by the golf course , cos time I pick |