Example sentences of "we [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 2 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 3 | As children , we grow up with the lovely stories in which animals really are people : The Wind in the Willows , Just so Stories , Watership Down . |
| 4 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’ |
| 5 | The canal 's over that-a-way , but if we head over towards the old brickworks- ’ She unlocked a huge padlock which fastened the gates . |
| 6 | So what are your plans in the next year or two as we head up towards the next winter Olympics ? |
| 7 | We catch up with the latest exploits on the portable front in Living with a Notebook . |
| 8 | Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family . |
| 9 | Well you can see for yourself on Friday , when we meet up with the main man on the golf course ; he 's full of fun and full of hope . |
| 10 | We kick off with the British Killifish Association . |
| 11 | Macadam until we run out of the coastal plain and start to climb . |
| 12 | If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases : |
| 13 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 14 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 15 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 16 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 17 | And we finish up with the hardy Scottish and Welsh breeds in September and October . |
| 18 | We pass by on the other side so easily . |
| 19 | ‘ The H-bomb looms ahead , ’ remarked the critic William Whitebait , ‘ and we dare n't look at it , we creep back to the lacerating comfort of ‘ last time ’ ’ . |
| 20 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 21 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 22 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 23 | At nine o'clock that night we set out in the pouring rain , our car packed with people and stores of food , picking our way through lorries , mules and men on foot . |
| 24 | Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall . |
| 25 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 26 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 27 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 28 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 29 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 30 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |