Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , I refused Toby 's offer of a drink , and we agreed to sleep on the problem and talk again sometime during the following day . |
| 2 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 3 | It 's not unusual on girls ' weekends or at women workers ' conferences for them to be demonstrative with each other , or with the young women , while we remain caught in the straight-jacket of frigidity while we are in the public eye . |
| 4 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 5 | ‘ You made the condition that we dance according to the music , ’ he reminded her . |
| 6 | As we have explained earlier in the book , insulin response to the carbohydrate foods we eat varies with the speed of absorption of the carbohydrate . |
| 7 | We make do with the dole and Ellie 's going in with a friend who 's just started a café which 'll help with the food . |
| 8 | Data-gathering should only be undertaken if we intend to act upon the information which has been accumulated . |
| 9 | We shall be writing to you around August 1989 to check that the information that we intend to put onto the Register about you is correct . |
| 10 | We intend looking at the situation again in … |
| 11 | Against these dramatic changes , we intend to remain at the centre as an effective resource for the voluntary sector , and an important bridge between the sector and others . |
| 12 | We tend to refer to the World Church as something outside our particular constituency and we must n't forget that we must own the World Church . |
| 13 | In Britain ( with all too few honourable exceptions ) we tend to accept as the norm , prefab huts equipped with smelly loos , worn carpets or line , tatty curtains and torn seat cushions . |
| 14 | We tend to play at the point of the evening when the temperature drops , so I tune up just before Bryan goes on and then after three or four songs they 're all sharp , because the temperature has dropped . |
| 15 | We tend to work from the Centre in the friendly critic role . |
| 16 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 17 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 18 | But there 's a procedure and the procedure , our stewards recognized that the procedure was there to be effectively operated and if words can resolve a problem , and that 's how we became trained in the situation affecting all our members . |
| 19 | It is high time that we got rid of the Government who have characterised the 1980s with cardboard city and got a Government for the 1990s who will start using bricks and mortar again . |
| 20 | Happily we got rid of the fighter and the navigator set course once more by his skilful application of the astro compass readings and crossed the Channel . |
| 21 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 22 | he could n't manage to think and I 've never learnt how to manage to , that erm , the engine , so we got rid of the boat and then our son he 's got a big boat , he 's got a real speedboat , a real big one and Julian he 's got a smaller speedboat , so both of the boys go there , when we go camping we always have a good time because it 's all a family affair like , you know , always get together and erm go on , on a boat , fishing , having fresh mackerels come back and clean them up and fry them straight fresh from the sea , never tasted as fresh , fresh as , fresher fish than , than |
| 23 | Well , the first one we got kicked on the head because take the pension . |
| 24 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 25 | I was under the impression we got married in the church . |
| 26 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 27 | Last year we got caught on the break too many times … this year we have the pace/organisation to deal with that … and Lukic is nt bad at 1 on 1 's … |
| 28 | The second point er chairman is that one particular solution adopted by a couple of County Councils the one in particular has been to have a local act requiring registration of car boot sales which gives enforcement officers a chance to know they 're going to happen and it also requires display of names and addresses not suggesting it is not entirely suggest that is here but late last night we simply felt we want to talk about the possibility of a framework enabling this legislation which will allow that to happen on national basis oh , as a way of controlling this , this sort of activity . |
| 29 | In the meantime I have enclosed a statement which we helped to prepare in the run up to the Earth Summit . |
| 30 | Para 5.1.1 We suggest adding at the end ‘ … is treated equitably within the constraints of corporate and strategic planning . |