Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 2 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 3 | There is a small dam to pass , and then it 's plain sailing all the way back to the car park to live with the shame that we failed to live up to the term ‘ fit walkers ’ . |
| 4 | We intend to participate fully in the promised review of housing revenue account expenditure which is er coming later in this year . |
| 5 | We tend to look only at the beginning and end of a decision . |
| 6 | The recession , which we expected to fade away through the year , has hit us full on , and as I write there is little sign of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel . |
| 7 | A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt . |
| 8 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
| 9 | We got squeezed out of the middle . ’ |
| 10 | If I remember rightly , it all started going wrong with Cantona and Leeds after we got knocked out of the European Cup . |
| 11 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 12 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 13 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 14 | They apply only to sight , and leave the reader assuming that , unlike what we see , what we touch exists independently of the mind . |
| 15 | I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality . |
| 16 | Unless we want to go back to the Stone Age , zero pollution is not practical . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 18 | We want to break away from the way men behave , not imitate them . |
| 19 | Now we want to get in on the act . |
| 20 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 21 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 22 | We hope to feature more about the Advisory Group in a future NOTES article . |
| 23 | We hope to say enough about the UK 's international position to show that international competition , and the changing commodity composition of world trade , are the keys to understanding the changing composition and size of the UK economy . |
| 24 | We 're going to make a pilot and we hope to go out on the network next year … on Central . |
| 25 | We have got consultants looking at that and by September of this year we hope to report back to the council . ’ |
| 26 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 27 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
| 28 | Before we 'd gone far from the hut we had lost one of the Germans with sickness , and an hour later the Dutchman had to turn back when he had trouble with his crampons . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
| 30 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |