Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the other part of facial waxing is , on the chin , we tend to get quite a few growing on our chin , and upper lip . |
| 2 | We would n't wish to do that , but nor would we want to open up a free for all . |
| 3 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 4 | Stroud grants that if we want to know how a third person can know the nature of reality , we might carry out a psychological investigation of his methods of information processing , and then compare the results of his reasoning with known facts . |
| 5 | Mr McGlory said : ‘ We want to start up a new Allinsonsaimed at a more mature clientele and including cabaret shows . |
| 6 | We want to bring up a nice girl , not a little pig . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , Colin was a terrific help once we 'd thrashed out a few problems , ’ she said modestly . |
| 8 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 9 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 10 | We seem to see here a first concept of temple-decoration , the guardian symbols , beginning to give hesitant way to the idea which was to prevail : the devotion of temple-gables to narrative scenes from myth and legend . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think that professionalism as such should have a place within the playing side of the Association , ’ states the Dungiven clubman , ‘ We play for pure enjoyment and recreation and if along the way we manage to pick up a few honours , then that 's great . |
| 12 | ‘ They give us a sense of achievement too because we like to take on a caring role and feel responsible . |
| 13 | We like putting on a good show . |
| 14 | ‘ Efter we get alang here a wee bit , ye come tae a loch , then roon' the bend is a castle , then we cairry oan up the road a bit till we cam tae anither loch … ’ |
| 15 | Why do we have to bring in a cut-throat operator like Guy Sterne ? ’ |
| 16 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 17 | Was it when we started to feel just a little grown-up , and asked people Round To Dinner ? |
| 18 | How long do we try to patch up a failing plan ? |
| 19 | How do we attempt to bring about a generic capacity for change amongst staff ? |
| 20 | At St Mary 's , we decided to set up a 10-week pilot study before fully implementing the new role . |
| 21 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 22 | Phillips says that ‘ at first we try to set up a good rapport and explore the range of powers claimed . |
| 23 | Erm we were agents for a firm called in Australia , who made very good leather indeed , and we did sell quite a large amount of his tanneds to the local er firms for the saddlery trade . |
| 24 | It was only water that was let into a confined space but we had a Sports Association which had a section for the swimming and er I way remember bought a couple of old single decker buses from somewhere , I do n't know where and he had them fitted out and rigged up at Stoke Bathing Place , especially for us to go there and change and w we did have quite a good strong section , we used to hold our , an annual what you call a regatta , or , no not a regatta but er in the St Matthew 's Swimming Baths a festival , a swimming festival a gala , yes |
| 25 | What they did not do is cohabit in advance of the wedding , which could well be a good thing if we choose to take seriously a recent report which says cohabitees who subsequently marry are 60% more likely to divorce than those who marry without first living together . |
| 26 | We look out into the darkness wondering why we elected to go nearly a hundred miles in this . |
| 27 | Peach and cherry trees are out in blossom , and we 've seen quite a few birds . |
| 28 | We 've seen quite a dramatic increase this year . |
| 29 | Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant . |
| 30 | And Mr will know , that in fact we 've employed quite a few of his services and other services of the county council . |