Example sentences of "we [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I ca n't see how we 've had a revue in nineteen eighty-eight which has recommended a very specific course of action , none of which appears to have been implemented , I do n't see how we get a report which describes er , the intention of the county council as maintaining the ethos of the County Farms , whatever that is , as I , I do n't recall any decisions like that , and certainly if we 've made one , I 'd be interested in being party to changing it , I think wha what we have to say is we 've got a lot of land , are we using it to the best interest of the people of Wiltshire , and that is one thing it 's addressing , not a , a way of preserving the County Estates as they are , not a way of keeping a hundred and twenty farmers and their families erm , as tenants of Wiltshire , I mean they 're not gon na be out of jobs are they ? |
2 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
3 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
4 | And why do we do it in the cruellest possible ways ? |
5 | And do we do it within the financial |
6 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
7 | But make sure we put it on the right side though ! |
8 | We put it in the second bag , and that 's now four blue and three red . |
9 | Television at home came later ; for now we watch it in the Italian cafe , where the price of a penny ice lolly opens the dusty chenille curtain and we can join the other children huddled in the darkness in front of the flickering screen in the corner . |
10 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
11 | Det Chief Supt Ken John , co-ordinating the murder inquiry , said : ‘ We feel that we owe it to the gay community to go out to the community and warn individual practising homosexuals who are frequenting various pubs , restaurants and bars in London to be aware that somebody who is prepared to attack their community is about in the city . |
12 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
13 | No matter how worthwhile a project seems we attack it for the hidden and sinister purposes behind it . |
14 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Yes I leave on the eleventh of March so can we have it on the eight of March ? |
19 | Well could we have it on the sixth and change the committee day ? . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily ! |
22 | It did n't , we took it in the front room |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
25 | If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up . |
26 | We did it on the sloping lid of a locker , our jeans and knickers round our ankles . |
27 | yeah we did it on the same night . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | ‘ Yes , we did it in the Fourth . |
30 | 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 . |