Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we agreed to look for a new approach " . |
| 2 | We lay entwined on a secluded hillside . |
| 3 | It is the way we intend to proceed in a whole range of different market areas . ’ |
| 4 | In answer to the question " where is the White House ? " , we tend to respond with a step-by-step description of the journey to be taken . |
| 5 | Mm we expected to perform in a professional way , particularly after incidents like last week when we had an horrendous twenty four hours and we do n't get paid for it |
| 6 | We planned to live in a little house near the church , with lots of flowers and animals . |
| 7 | However , not to discourage those who seek absolute perfection , we suggest starting with a secondhand camera of 6 x 6cm ( 2 1/4 X 2 1/4 in ) format and roll film . |
| 8 | One , we 're going to look at why well trained staff are , are so important to the C U , secondly we 're going to look at things responsibility training is and lastly we want to look at a systematic approach that you can take as training . |
| 9 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 10 | But the best of the lot is the tiny chip of violet nail polish we found caught in a torn portion of the table-cloth . ’ |
| 11 | We endeavoured to enquire from a black policeman . |
| 12 | ‘ I would have said what I have if we 'd gone to a fun-fair , ’ said Helen . |
| 13 | We 'd talked about a heart-lung transplant , and he was on the list , but they never found a suitable match . |
| 14 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 15 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 16 | As in The German Ideology , we seem to start with a similar early evolutionary stage which is roughly described as ‘ tribal ’ and which in itself divided into three . |
| 17 | Unless we begin to operate as a united industry and impose a voluntary reduction on crop planting it is difficult to see anything other than another year of disastrous returns . ’ |
| 18 | It was during this period of considerable stress and pressure that we began to move towards a multi-oppression analysis as a basis for training and for the work . |
| 19 | We began to run at a great speed through the trees , and Silver was soon thirty metres behind us . |
| 20 | We began talking in a general way about modern theologians . |
| 21 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 22 | Will we have to wait for a Labour Government before positive action is taken ? |
| 23 | We continue to speak of a scientific revolution because earlier systems of belief were emphatically overthrown . |
| 24 | Lind believes that as we become sensitized to a particular quality or relationship so attentive focus comes to oscillate amongst all the similar proximate elements . |
| 25 | We recognise the potential strengths in it and we try to get into a constructive relationship with it . |
| 26 | ‘ We do go for a certain amount of fragility . |
| 27 | erm I think we do live in a patriarchal society where , even if , for example , some of the single carers that I interviewed — three were men out of eight or nine — and they had an equally hard deal , because the rules are stacked against people caring for dependents , whether the people who care are men or are women . |
| 28 | We do n't know , but erm we do live in a confrontational parliamentary system . |
| 29 | For if the environmental movement fails in its objectives , we risk sinking into a post-industrial Dark Age in which human interests will , once again , eclipse those of other species . |
| 30 | ‘ We practise lying on a bouncing ball and reading aloud or singing the words in the book . |